Loonshots and Moonshots, an Evening with the Author Safi Bahcall

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On April 9th 2019 XLabs hosted a private evening with Safi Bahcall. Physicist and biotech entrepreneur Safi Bahcall, author of Loonshots, discusses with XLabs CEO Dr. Radhika Dirks a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about radical breakthroughs. Bahcall shows why groups will suddenly change from embracing wild new ideas to rigidly rejecting them, just as flowing water will suddenly change into brittle ice. Mountains of print have been written about culture. Learn the small shifts in structure that control this transition, the same way that temperature controls the change from water to ice.

Don’t miss the podcast in which we bring you behind closed doors to the fascinating Q&A from that event.