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Mickey McManus

Senior Advisor & Leadership Coach at Boston Consulting Group; design pioneer and co-author of Trillions

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PODCASTS

Jul 22, 2026

Mickey McManus on co-thinking, beautiful complexity, pro-social design, and evolutionary social science (HAI Ep51)

Jul 22 · 39m

Ross DawsonHOST

2:16

So where are our brains?

Mickey McManusGUEST

2:19

You know, I think of it as there's a really wonderful statement, no mind is an island.

Mickey McManusGUEST

2:24

And I think it's better to think of us as our minds escaped our body or at least our body alone a long time ago.

Mickey McManusGUEST

2:32

And this isn't new, like we have co-thought And we are co-thinkers by definition.

Mickey McManusGUEST

2:38

We have co-thought with our environment.

Mickey McManusGUEST

2:41

We've co-thought with our artifacts.

Mickey McManusGUEST

2:42

You know, we make something and that teaches us about something.

14 MINS LATER

Ross DawsonHOST

16:22

what you can do is you notice that in nature, there's tons of beautiful complexity.