Show Notes: 

• Cultivate Wit (03:00) 
• New Glarus Spotted Cow Beer (03:40) 
• Lambeau Field - Green Bay, Wisconsin (04:00) 
• Pausing in your activities to recognize what it is you are actually drawing joy from (07:20) 
• Surprising ways to learn about entrepreneurship (11:00) 
• Common experience and connection (20:30) 
• The Onion (21:00) 
• Creative process at The Onion (25:30) 
• TED Talk: What I learned from writing jokes for The Onion (27:40) 
• Creative collaboration (29:30) 
• Two tracks of the ’notion’ of creativity: within your own head and within a collective group (29:50) 
• Detachment as a key component of creativity (32:30) 
• Daniel Kahneman and cognitive biases (33:00) 
• Ideas are not precious (36:30) 
• Dealing with rejection (36:50) 
• TV show with Baratunde Thurston called Funded (37:30) 
• Take the risk to do your best work - like Stephen Pressfield’s The War of Art (40:30) 
• IDEO (42:50) 
• Ideas in service of cultural growth and people (44:30) 
• Time at Google working on the AI personal assistant (45:10) 
• The whole world is designed (47:40) 
• We are shaping our ideas of the world through every interaction (48:00) 
• Note-taking (50:00) 
  • Field Notes notebooks
  • I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now 
  • The magic of the blank page 
• Lightning round (01:01:00): 
  • Book: George Saunders The Tenth of December
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