Episode #49: Geoffrey Moore: Pattern Recognition

These Fools welcome guest Geoffrey Moore, world-renowned business strategist famous for books such as “Crossing the Chasm” and consultant with leading enterprises such as Salesforce, Intel, and Microsoft. Geoff introduces “The Infinite Staircase,” his proposal for a metaphysics that provides a secular framework for ethics. He and these Fools explore the human experience and how we develop in our search for meaning. Geoff is a treasure, as is his life’s work, and it was an honor to host him. Enjoy!

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Geoffrey Moore
01:14 The Role of Narrative
04:51 Metaphor as a Tool
08:41 Language and Its Functions
14:38 The Infinite Staircase Explained
20:22 Ethics Without Divinity
23:30 The Grounding Problem
26:12 Emergence and the Infinite Staircase
30:00 Skepticism
36:36 The Miraculous and the Secular
39:46 Wonder in Morality and Ethics
41:25 Aristotle, Virtue, and the Journey of Self-Realization
47:01 The Impact of Technology on Youth
51:25 Rhetoric vs. Dialectic: The Power of Narratives
54:12 Crossing the Chasm
01:03:06 Philosophy and Ethics in Modern Organizations
01:18:51 Mortality and Legacy
01:35:03 Excitement for the Future