{"id":6559,"slug":"catalyst","name":"catalyst","type":"concept","created_at":"2026-08-08T23:35:36.528473+00:00","hidden":0,"aliases":[],"episodes":[{"id":"1fe4c383-f4a2-4564-bfd7-f6f5a2fa44b2","slug":"s21e16-organizational-entropy-activation-energy","subject":"s21e16: Organizational Entropy, Activation Energy, and Catalysts","title":"Organizational Entropy, Activation Energy, and Catalysts","publish_date":"2026-07-31T21:18:59+00:00","year":2026,"month":7,"season":21,"episode":16,"episode_label":"s21e16","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s21e16-organizational-entropy-activation-energy/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1573,"context":" … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention\n\n1.1 Organizational Entropy, Activation Energy, and <mark>Catalysts</mark>\n\nI had\nRussell Davies on the How People Work, Live! show today … ","reading_minutes":8},{"id":"90e43c77-f52b-4760-971e-4c5ea4cbb400","slug":"s08e20-gestures-at-everything","subject":"s08e20: *gestures at everything*","title":"*gestures at everything*","publish_date":"2020-10-10T18:50:40.646000+00:00","year":2020,"month":10,"season":8,"episode":20,"episode_label":"s08e20","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s08e20-gestures-at-everything/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1624,"context":" … it useful in the early stages of government transformation as a politically expedient <mark>catalyst</mark> to get things going), in the same way that the point is the service … ","reading_minutes":8}]}