29: Bioengineer, TedTalk speaker, Startup Integrating Innovation Founder Keira Havens Discusses Nature, GMOs,and Her Life in a Startup

May 15, 2018

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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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Hyperlinked Timestamped Show Notes (only clickable on this website):

  1. [ 02:10 ] How Agriculture is the current system that she is trying to change.
  2. [ 03:50 ] How Most of what we think as natural is actually human controlled. Especially in USA.
  3. [ 05:20 ] Great power and responsibilities, and her thoughts on looking at externalities in systems that people tend to miss, and donuts economics.
  4. [ 07:00 ] 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.
  5. [ 09:40 ] Changes in our brain over our evolution and how thinking bigger can be very beneficial.
  6. [ 11:05 ] What life was like as a female founder for her and how she interacted with people.
  7. [ 13:00 ] Channeling Steve Jobs, but giving credit where it’s due.
  8. [ 13:50 ] Her experiences being compromising in vision vs being focused on what she wanted to do.
  9. [ 14:45 ] What are GMOs actually like,  how they are not like stapling an apple to a pear, and how she got into geoengineering.
  10. [ 17:45 ] Theseus Ship and her thoughts on the ships relationship to the observer.
  11. [ 19:00 ] Editing the Germ line and how it’s analogous to a generational ship (Aurora by Kim).
  12. [ 22:45 ] How often things swap DNA and horizontal transfer.
  13. [ 23:30 ] Where she got started and how she developed over the years,
  14. [ 27:00 ] 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.
  15. [ 28:00 ] How not to get society to accept your innovation and findings, and Keira’s thoughts on data and setting up strong narratives.
  16. [ 30:20 ] 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.
  17. [ 33:30 ] 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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