Learning With Lowell
Learning With Lowell
Lowell Thompson
29: Bioengineer, TedTalk speaker, Startup Integrating Innovation Founder Keira Havens Discusses Nature, GMOs,and Her Life in a Startup
37 minutes Posted May 15, 2018 at 5:10 pm.
] How Agriculture is the current system that she is trying to change.
] How Most of what we think as natural is actually human controlled. Especially in USA.
] Great power and responsibilities, and her thoughts on looking at externalities in systems that people tend to miss, and donuts economics.
] The repercussions of not being responsible with our environment and a fun anecdote about Admiral Nelson and trees, and how successful companies tend to emulate nature and it's characteristics.
] Changes in our brain over our evolution and how thinking bigger can be very beneficial.
] What life was like as a female founder for her and how she interacted with people.
] Channeling Steve Jobs, but giving credit where it's due.
] Her experiences being compromising in vision vs being focused on what she wanted to do.
] What are GMOs actually like,  how they are not like stapling an apple to a pear, and how she got into geoengineering.
] Theseus Ship and her thoughts on the ships relationship to the observer.
] Editing the Germ line and how it's analogous to a generational ship (Aurora by Kim).
] How often things swap DNA and horizontal transfer.
] Where she got started and how she developed over the years,
] Societies needing to accept innovation and how to help encourage adoption with a fun example of how people fought hand washing in ancient (modern ?) times.
] How not to get society to accept your innovation and findings, and Keira's thoughts on data and setting up strong narratives.
] How we can be supportive of her missions and other missions, get informed, and then get involved, and the analogy of seeing problems with a hammer instead of a toolbox.
] Her thoughts on tools and toolboxes in societies, and an example of developing plants to detect landmines vs more effective methods.
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Keira Havens, CEO, Founder, TedTalk speaker, Bioengineer - discusses her thoughts on systems and how to integrate innovation into society, how people tend to think of nature incorrectly, and her life as a CEO and Founder of a biotech startup.
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19:00 ] Editing the Germ line and how it's analogous to a generational ship (Aurora by Kim).
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