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E4B – Anthony Saltis – Competence and Culture

This is part 2 of the episode co-hosted by Kas Gregory and Supakarn Nakavisut, interviewing Anthony Saltis. We discuss time travel, Capitalism, mobile phones in society, the Dunning-Kruger Effect, education, children in parliament and happiness vs productivity.

00:42 – Time Travel Philosophy

06:10 – Antibiotic resistance

09:05 – Work Culture and pandemics – Capitalism

13:20 – Unified moral preference of society

16:25 – Mobile phones in society – dopamine machines

25:15 – Dunning-Kruger Effect – The four stages of competence

34:00 – Anthropology – risk-taking behaviours

38:15 – Experienced teachers

43:45 – Thailand Education Reform

46:40 – Finnish Education system

49:19 – Children in Parliament?

53:35 – American Election (talked about in early September)

56:48 – Happiness vs Productivity

The YouTube version will be delayed, as I haven’t yet made the SMArt, and I am working on a new idea.

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E3 – Dr Sarah Pearson | Innovation | Particle Physics, Cancer Diagnosis & Cadbury

I am joined by Dr. Sarah Pearson, the current Deputy Director-General for Innovation at Advance Queensland. We discuss Sarah’s career that started in Particle Physics but has since included, cancer research, Cadbury confectionary, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), with a huge focus on collaborative innovation.
Sarah’s LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahpearsoninnovation
Sarah’s Twitter https://twitter.com/InnovationSarah
Advance Queensland Website https://advance.qld.gov.au/

Timestamps:

00:01:14 – Sarah’s current work at Advance Queensland
00:02:14 – Innovation out of COVID-19
00:03:40 – The ups and downs of Sarah’s Oxford PhD
00:09:00 – Careers Highlights
00:11:17 – Moving to Australia
00:11:47 – Working at McKinsey
00:12:52 – Becoming a parent – refocusing priorities
00:14:40 – Moving to Armidale – moving back into Physics and restructuring
00:16:36 – Breast Cancer research
00:18:23 – Outreach programs to get young people, especially women into STEM
00:19:18 – Open Innovation at Cadbury
00:22:33 – Back to Australia – struggled for a bit
00:23:08 – CEO at ANU Enterprise + Night jobs like the Scaling Frontier Innovation Program
00:26:54 – Canberra Innovation Network – company to build an ecosystem. Mass collaboration.
00:28:33 – Brief UoN stint
00:28:37 – Chief Innovation Officer at DFAT
00:30:29 – Head of Innovation Queensland
00:30:44 – Work-life balance
00:32:11 – Important Networks and influential people
00:36:10 – Childhood impacts on career. Moving around a lot.
00:38:37 – Merging innovation with encouraging women in STEM
00:43:14 – How to build inclusive new economies?
00:44:07 – How will innovation change the future?

Intro Music by Supakarn Nakavisuit (https://bit.ly/33ZtIh8)
Outro Music by Kasimir Gregory
SMArt – “Puppy” by Kasimir Gregory

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E2C – Brent Gregory | Future Universities, Networks & Creativity

Brent and I discuss the future of Universities, the importance of soft networks and clusters of competence, creativity and the 6 thinking hats. New music in the introduction by Supakarn Nakavisut (@BARE MUSIC – https://bit.ly/33ZtIh8)

00:00:43 – Intro (Music by Supakarn Nakavisut)
00:01:25 – Specialising/decentralising Universities?
00:04:45 – Future of Universities
00:08:10 – Purpose built cities/communities
00:13:08 – Implementing the change despite pushback? Improving quality of life.
00:19:15 – Importance of teams and networks
00:23:58 – What recruiters say about networking skills
00:27:50 – Work hrs vs pay research (correlations)
00:32:01 – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
00:33:20 – Six Thinking Hats
00:37:35 – Creativity and Innovation – “The literature of life is something we shouldn’t devalue”
00:45:22 – Accelerated Learning
00:48:31 – Tools and Drills for creativity?
00:50:52 – Clusters of Competence
00:53:43 – The impact of the coffee shop
00:54:25 – The Manhattan Project (20 Nobel Laureates)
00:55:14 – Gambling with Maths cluster; Silicon Valley; Musical crossovers
01:00:02 – What is the causal factor? What aren’t we measuring?
01:02:00 – Accounting is about making things visible
01:05:40 – Find Brent at ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brent_Gregory

Intro Music by Supakarn Nakavisut (https://kaensupakarn.wixsite.com/bare-music/music)
Outro music by Kasimir Gregory