The Intellectual Anarchy Podcast
Oceanit practices ‘Intellectual Anarchy’ – empowering teams to break down traditional silos, transcend disciplines, and cross-pollinate ideas and expertise. We create breakthrough ideas, insights, discoveries, and developments — delivering the future as an interdisciplinary force. Through spinouts, co-development partnerships, licensing, and direct manufacturing, Oceanit thrives in delivering solutions to market at scale. Oceanit calls this practice ‘Mind-to-Market’, delivering deep science to disruptive, real-world innovations at scale and impact.
Intellectual Anarchy: The Art of Disruptive Innovation by Dr. Patrick K. Sullivan is available on Amazon. Get your copy at https://bit.ly/2Vk5bhN.
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Episodes
14 episodes
Episode 13 – Left of Boom: The Intellectual Anarchy Process
Every meaningful discovery opens up new questions that only show us all the wonders that we don’t understand.– Noam Chomsky“Left of Boom” is a term of art used by the U.S. Department of Defense to describe the time before an explo...
Episode 12 - Delivering Innovation into the Hands of Users
We’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change—inch by inch, day by day.– Barack ObamaIn 2012, the Eastman Kodak Company, the firm that dominated still and motion photography for over a century, filed fo...
Episode 11 – Deep Science to Human-Centered Design
Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.– John MaedaDeep science wrestles with the principles and fundamental concepts of the universe. It is inherently disrupt...
Episode 10 – How Emotion Drives Innovation
Play lies at the core of creativity and innovation– Stuart BrownPlay excites. In motivates. It encourages creative problem solving. But play is much more than an antidote to despair, it produces higher performance in knowledge wor...
Episode 9 - Principled Anarchy: Enabling Emergent Greatness
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” – Peter DruckerMost companies are built to manage, which can come at the expense of innovation. Conversely, companies that are built to innovate are often challenging to manage. In this episode...
Episode 8 - Rise of the Techno Warriors
“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.” – Nikola...
Episode 7 - Making Stuff: Hands-On Innovation
“It is better to create than to learn. Creating is the essence of life.” – Julius CaesarWhen we’re young, we learn by doing, by making things. Unfortunately, this “making stuff” mindset is largely stamped out by high school in the name o...
Episode 6 - Out of Their Safety Zones: Interdisciplinary Education and Transdisciplinary Thinking
“I have never let schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark TwainEducation is one of the most important innovations the world has ever produced. The ability of individuals to pass on their hard-won knowledge and experience to anothe...
Episode 5 - Defeating Geography: If You Can Think It, You Can Make It—Anywhere
“Geography is destiny.” – Napoleon BonaparteTechnology development in the United States has recently been concentrated in a handful of regions, like Silicon Valley or the Northeast Corridor. Oceanit was founded in Hawaii; not just outsid...
Episode 4 - Defeating Functional Fixedness: Avoiding Blind Spots in Science, Engineering, and Design
“We all have a blind spot, and it’s shaped exactly like us.” – Junot DiazIn Games for the Super-Intelligent, James Fixx tells the anecdote of a high school physics teacher who challenges his students to determine the height of a building...
Episode 3 - Defeating Groupthink: Diversity of People, Projects, and Place
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” – Mark TwainGroupthink is a cognitive bias that impairs decision making by groups of otherwise highly qualified individuals. That is, a group of s...
Episode 2 - Chapter 2: The Man Behind the Curtain: The Hazards of Expert Thinking
“If an expert tells you it can’t be done, get another expert.” – David Ben-GurionExperts are essential to innovation. They know the tools and methods of the field, enabling a rapid start. No time is wasted covering well-trod ground. They...
Episode 1 - How We Think: No Rules, Just Moral and Legal Guidelines
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson. Clayton Christensen first coined the term “disruptive innovation” 20 years ago in his landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, to explain, ...