Action Engines and Random Collisions - Broadening Our Social Purpose

<p><br></p><p>It’s been 7 months since our last drop and four years since I began the podcast. So before season 5 kicks off, I wanted to explain the changes to the type of guests we will interview and the outcomes we are hoping to effect.&nbsp;</p><br><p>Back in July last year, I paused the podcast, and during this hiatus, I worked with creative elder, coach,&nbsp;mentor, and award-winning ex-ad guy, Paul ‘Nobby’ Davies on my underlying mission and vision for the Impossible Network.&nbsp;</p><br><p>During one of my Creative Coaching calls, I recounted how a previous pod guest <a href="https://theimpossiblenetwork.com/podcast/jeremy-heimans/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jeremy Hymans</a> in his book New Power, co-authored with Henry Timms, stated that the event series <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TED</a> had cornered<strong> ideas worth spreading.</strong> But what we need in the world are people focused on the <strong>problems that need solving.</strong>&nbsp;Now, if there is one thing I have learned over the years is that when all great problems were solved, serendipity played a part.&nbsp;</p><p>This got me thinking, let’s make the podcast a genuine serendipity experiment.&nbsp;</p><br><p>So I started with this question.&nbsp;If we have all these problems that need solving, instead of <strong>think tanks</strong> publishing papers on possible solutions, surely we should have <strong>Action Engines </strong>doing real work to solve the problem? And could the Impossible Network Podcast play its part and be a catalyst for creating <strong>Action Engines</strong> to accelerate problem-solving and progress?&nbsp;</p><p>Why not try?</p><p>So here’s what we’ll do.&nbsp;</p><p>We will interview three types of people - what we are calling&nbsp;</p><ul><li>The Difference Makers - Those on the ground change agents working to make an impact on a particular social problem&nbsp;</li><li>The Domain Experts -&nbsp;respected people of authority with specialist knowl