Ep.7: The Unaccountability Machine with Dan Davies

1:15 Discovering unaccountability
4:58 Defining the problem
6:59 Alienation of labour and Marx
9:00 The real problem with unaccountability
10:25 Accountability Sinks - Trump, Brexit and brand damage
16:00 Information theory and cybernetics - It's not about space helmets!
20:17 Management overload and burnout
23:00 How we deal with information overload
25:30 Economics as a model of the world
27:35 The Ricardian Vice and the limits of models
32:40 The dangers of optimising a single variable
37:00 Confusing the map for the territory
41:15 Anti-fragile systems, Nassim Taleb and Rory Sutherland
45:45 Debt and the swamping of signals
48:50 Creating fragility
51:50 Limited liability breaks an important feedback loop
55:00 When math becomes metaphor
56:58 Dunbar's number and the problem of scale
59:00 Designing the capability to RE-design
1:01:00 Advice from Dan