Gunpei Yokoi is a name you may or may not know, but even if you haven't, he affected your life. In fact his contributions have in many ways have had significant impact on modern culture. What do we do to affect innovation? How do we go about growth and invention? What...
The humans who affect our history have all been either a Conqueror or a Communicator. Don’t believe us? Make your own list of people and play along as we discuss it. Also featuring some emergency Bill & Ted related conversation.
In podcast episode 10, "Reboots, Remakes, and Recycled Content," Kirk and Jeff discuss the process of relaunching, recreating, and repeating this process over to maximize the most engagement. Suppose you launch a product in the United States, for instance. In that...
In podcast episode 12, "Branding is Your Story," Kirk and Jeff use movies and superhero stories to explain the importance of character development and how they mold stories together. Kirk uses the example from the movie "Now You See Me" to describe the problems of...
In podcast episode 11, "Urban Legends," Kirk and Jeff discuss several urban legends: such as Bloody Mary and analyze why these stories have been passed down from generations. It's because, from a cognitive standpoint, stories become memorable. We generate fear from...
In podcast episode 9, "Day Drinking with a little Business and Bourbon," Kirk, Jeff, and the Entrepreneur Extraordinaire, Ronnell Richards, discuss crucial tips on start-up businesses. Ronnell Richard begins by explaining his great start-up story...
In podcast episode 13, "Communication on the Interweb," Kirk and Jeff discuss the history of communication and how it has evolved due to the rise of technology. Using the Butcher example in the 1950s to represent how customer service is so vastly different from the...
Our brain is a big prediction machine. It gathers and collects data and observations and it applies them into relative "buckets". Some things get ignored, somethings get misfiled, but everything gets categorized. Sometimes thats good-- It makes conclusions faster....
Why do pilots speak the same? That is because they follow similar five P's, or the tools of speaking. In podcast Episode 14, "The Speaking Tools You Need," we discuss the five P's of speaking: pitch, pace, poise, pause, and punch. Pitch can signal multiple different...
In podcast episode 16, Do a Little Dance, Make a Little Love, Get Down Tonight, we talk about creativity. Kirk and Jeff begin the conversation discussing art, where Jeff defines it as poetry, writing, painting, dancing, all of which are created to form a story. Using...
Happy Thanksgiving! That means Kirk and Jeff celebrate with candy or known as the "Bounty Feast." Like Holidays, people who celebrate across the world have one commonality with one another. Similarly, those who have the same common sense do not come from the same...
In podcast Episode 17, we discuss problem-solving. Speaking on cognition, the brain needs structure to attach things to, which is the main component to how our brains are wired to solve problems. Kirk and Jeff use examples from the Pandemic and the education...
