#008 Rob Poynton - Improvising in Complexity

In this final episode of 2019 it feels appropriate to welcome Rob Poynton who has had a longstanding interest in improvisation and creativity. He is also the author of several books including most recently the bestselling Do Pause, all about the importance and necessity of pausing, which seems particularly relevant at this time of year and given some of the complexity and turbulence of recent months. Rob is originally from the UK but now lives off-grid in rural Spain as well as spending quite a lot of his time in the city of Oxford in the UK, which is where I met with him a few weeks ago, where he is also an Associate Fellow at the Said Business School. We had a really enjoyable and wide ranging conversation, where we talk about everything from the work of the complexity theorist David Snowdon and his Cynefin framework, to the election in the UK which had not happened yet when we met up. See below links to some of things we discuss in this episode: 

https://www.robertpoynton.com/ 

https://thedobook.co/products/do-pause-you-are-not-a-to-do-list 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094580/ 

https://oyf.com/ 

https://rebase.camp/london-2019/ 

http://www.fritjofcapra.net/ 

https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/ 

https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework 

https://www.ynharari.com/book/sapiens/ 

https://anchor.fm/weareliminal/episodes/005-The-Age-of-Abundance---James-Burke-e5k1i8