As engineers we do not learn to take responsibility for our users' attention -- and in fact we learn the opposite -- grab more market share at all costs! Where has this perspective taken us? We explore this idea from the view of Meta's choices, but also from the perspective of defaults, and how when we perceive something as a constant, it completely changes our frame of reference when we problem solve.

We've started to seeing difference in the way we think and create since we started using LLMs. From tactical things like remembering ear-worms, to abstract things like how we value ideas, we've found ChatGPT & Midjourney & GenAI have changed the way we think, work and create.
Kahran and Divya also discuss thieves cant, translation, learning, curating and accessibility of information. It's one of our first impromptu recordings, and we hope you love it as much as we did recording it!

Motivating yourself, especially on self-driven projects, can be hard. Once you finally have something works, how do you keep evolving it? We talk this week on breaking out of creative ruts and how to evolve, using the podcast as a meta example.

How do different understandings of 'what you do' affect the course of a company? How do they affect you as a person? Kahran and Divya talk about how they got to joyus studio's single line vision, and share ideas to help others get there with their learnings.

How do you create pre-experiences to put people in the right mindset for your experience? How do those create expectations you can exceed? In this wide reaching conversation we discuss Seth Godin, activation energy, fine dining (including Mesa, Eleven Madison Park, and other Michelin 3-star restaurants, tho not by name!) and what it means to create expectations (and how we as designers create them for other people).

We know different learners learn differently, but how do different learners create works, get inspiration, or decide products or services are right for them? The customer journey changes for different types of learners. This week we look at how we use wish lists, how we solve problems, and how we buy things, both products, goods, and services.

Is it right to have work from home when not everyone can? How do we resolve moral questions about fairness in a post-COVID world? This week we explore post-COVID work, thinking about how local governments, small businesses, and larger businesses, including tech companies, can navigate questions of costs, morals and what values are worth paying for.

How do things work out for successful people? How do you make things work out for yourself? Is it positive psychology, or can you actually influence outcomes just by trying to make it happen? We explore these questions, and others, in this episode -- though we start off with Divya doing an amazing job of explaining nuclear physics! Like who knew that every element with an atomic number higher than lead was likely to eventually break down into lead! :-)

What values are you willing to pay for? Does it change for your personal life, versus your work persona? When does ethical stop feeling ethical? This week, Divya and Kahran explore these questions in the context of today’s society, today's technology and the nature of late capitalism.

Kahran shares some of the lessons and thinking that guide his attitudes towards investing, saving and other types of finance in this wide reaching episode that looks at how to leverage your skills and assets to create more freedom. But we begin with a little look back -- how thankful we are to have made it season 2, and how much we've already grown over the last 10 episodes!