Damon Centola is a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication, the School of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Network Dynamics Group and Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. His latest book is Change: How to Make Big Things Happen. In this episode we talk about
Damon's childhood growing up in an intentional community, the influence of his undergraduate curriculum in classics, how Heidegger changed his life, transitioning from philosophy and sociology, getting into network science at the perfect time, and building the academic ideas that became Change.
Book list: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-damon-centola-social-change-reading-list/
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Damon's childhood growing up in an intentional community, the influence of his undergraduate curriculum in classics, how Heidegger changed his life, transitioning from philosophy and sociology, getting into network science at the perfect time, and building the academic ideas that became Change.
Book list: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-damon-centola-social-change-reading-list/
Subscribe at codykommers.substack.com
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit codykommers.substack.com
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