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Special Edition featuring Personal Questions

Celebrate making it to 100 episodes by taking one week off to ask each other hard-hitting big-picture questions about creativity plus some lightning round either or questions.

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Products for older people and disability access

Why products for older people are poorly designed and how to include older people in the design process and Johanna Hedva’s disability access rider and why constructing society around what we often see to be niche groups is actually the best course of action.

The Art of Bloom by Intertrend

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“Today’s answer is not tomorrow’s.”

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The future of Diet Prada and the purpose of gender-neutral pronouns

The future of Diet Prada, the media company run by Tony Liu and Lindsey Schuyler that aims to hold the fashion industry accountable and The use of gender-neutral pronouns and the possible effects shifting language can have on shifting culture.

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How memes and brands relate and breaking down virtual influencers

The possible relationship between memes and brands as being top-down or bottom-up, giving the New York Times and Wendy’s as examples of each and The new virtual influencer Liam Nikuro and what virtual influencer companies get right and what they could do better.

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The history and effect of the hipster

Greg Jackson’s essay “Hipster Elegies” provides the starting point for a conversation on the history of the hipster and the importance of the hipster on the evolution of culture.

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“Failure ≠ Self Worth”

Better native advertising in podcasts and the Tumblr NSFW content ban

How advertising on podcasts can be done well and what makes an ad work particularly well for specific podcasts and The effects of the recent Tumblr ban of NSFW adult content and how the internet is continuing to shrink—to the detriment of all of us.

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Peak podcast and the Bob Ross paintings mystery

Whether we have reached peak podcast and, if not, what peak podcast would look like and Where the thousands of Bob Ross paintings are, what his appeal has been in the last five years, and how people are seeking hope wherever they can.