https://open.spotify.com/episode/3mZX2uEO6MHRifpcTdOzhf?si=T6U5K8trQt-U8Z_Cu4zX0Q
The show guest for episode 04 is Francois Taddei, whom I met in January of 2015, following a recommendation by my friend Mitch Altman.
Over the last twelve years, François Taddei has served as the co-founder and director of CRI Paris (Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity) which experiments and spreads new ways of learning, teaching, conducting research and mobilizing collective intelligence in life, learning and digital sciences.
François Taddei participates in various working groups on the future of research and education (« France 2025 », OECD report etc). He has been involved in scientific committees for the NIH, the INSERM and the Ministry of Research and served as an advisor to the French government, the European Union and the OECD that asked him to write a report on the future of education in the 21st century.
François Taddei also heads the Evolutionary Systems Biology team at a unit of the French National Institute of Health & Medical Research (INSERM) in Paris-Descartes University’s Medical School. After a generalist scientific education, with majors in physics and biology at the École Polytechnique, he became a tenured higher civil servant at the French Ministry of Agriculture, before earning a PhD in genetics, studying the rate of evolution with Miroslav Radman. After postdoctoral training with John Maynard-Smith, for the last 12 years, his research team has been studying innovation and degeneracy in biological systems. This work has produced many publications in generalist scientific journals and has been recognized by several awards (European Young Investigator award, Human Frontier Science Program award, INSERM Award for Fundamental Research, Liliane Bettencourt Life Science Award).
3:10 - Life story, morning routine and why working education
5:20 - Wowed by AI
6:00 - Most gifted books
6:20 - On Failure and success
7:00 - What is CRI? How dit it all start?
13:00 - Bell Labs, Cultures of creativity and Socrates
14:00 - Early struggles
16:20 - CRI funding path
18:20 - CRI structure, stakeholders and programs