Complex Spice

Complexity in advocacy, large-scale engineering systems, and working through constraints and the unknown

Host David Pollak talks with Matt Weigel, senior engineer with Splice, and Melissa King, a multifaceted health advocate working with the Healthspan global coalition, and non-profits connecting people to the services they need. The conversation spans medicine, getting a ballot initiative in front of voters, and helping teams of brilliant people tackle the unknown.

Complexity around land, insurance, and preparing for crisis

Host David Pollak talks with Ann Marie van den Hurk and Oisin Hurley about how Ann prepares clients for crisis communications (who knows what crisis will happen?) and Oisin talks about complexity of software development (another deep set of unknowns)

Complexity in computing systems and economics - Steve Waldman and Yao Yue

Complexity & Human Systems... how do humans evolve systems to tame the unknowable and incomprehensible