Month: April 2026

The episode explores transformation by refraction, the art of bending a familiar subject through a new lens to reveal unseen purposes. It chronicles the journey of martial arts legend Bruce Lee, who used a career-threatening injury to re-imagine combat as a philosophy of fluid adaptability. Lee applied the principle of “being like water” to move … Read more

The episode explores transformation by extension, the process of taking observations from one field and extending them to other fields to reveal new insights. I discuss how theoretical physicist Geoffrey West connects the mathematical rules governing animal biology to the life cycles of cities and corporations and other man-made networks. Rather than focusing on how … Read more