Podcast Episodes

236! Life Decisions

What things should we be leaving up to chance? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about the expectation of rightness, hiring, outsourcing decisions, smart…

2 years, 11 months ago

235! Conceiving History

How do we wrestle with history? 

This week, Jess and Aaron talk about rote learning, putty, history as study vs. history as culture, stories, empathy,…

2 years, 11 months ago

234! Reconsuming Content

This week, Joey and Jess talk about Chuck Klosterman, Bluey (again), the Mona Lisa, High Fidelity, Kafka, and Shakespeare. They don’t talk about Slic…

2 years, 11 months ago

233! Gamifying Sleep

What things that we need should we be gamifying? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about not getting enough sleep, Pokémon, mixed expertise, incentivized…

3 years ago

232! Contradiction

How do we deal with contradiction? 

This week, Jess, Joey, and Aaron talk about Björk, Barbie, G-strings, Elf on a Shelf, multiverses, and compartment…

3 years ago

231! Finding Empathy

Where might we find more empathy for each other? 

This week, Jess and Joey talk about etiquette, niceties, deplaning, consideration, the inverse crush…

3 years ago

230! Unexpected Audiences

How should we think about things that are created that wind up being more beloved by audiences that weren't the original target? 

This week, Joey and …

3 years ago

229! Attractiveness

How important is attractiveness? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about self-rating, the butt phase, dating apps, dating profiles as brand strategy, TMI…

3 years, 1 month ago

228! Patriotism and Empanadas

What is patriotic? 

This week, Jess, Aaron, and Joey talk about American Democracy, fusion foods, the spirit of the thing, beer holding, the cronut, a…

3 years, 1 month ago

227! Tendies

Why are we all suddenly calling these chicken "tendies"? 

This week, Jess and Joey talk about children's food, compression, self-deprecation, cutifica…

3 years, 1 month ago