Inspiration (Audio Podcast Analysis or Video Analysis)

Spring 2018 • De Angela L. Duff • Tuesdays • De Angela L. Duff • 5:30 - 9:10 PM • 2MTC MAGNET 811

Inspiration

Choose one of the following:

• Listen to one or more of the following audio podcasts OR

• Watch one or more of the following videos (TED, EYEO, Lynda, etc.)

Share your findings:

• You must join the public channel pro_inspiration channel on slack to post your inspiration homework.

• Provide a link in the pro_inspiration channel on slack.

• Write a short analysis of any epiphanies or insights that occurred while listening and watching for your own professional journey, and how it may or may not reflect your future self.

Recommended Audio Podcasts

• Revision Path Maurice Cherry interviews designers, developers, and other creators of color weekly.

• The Tim Ferriss Show Tim Ferriss deconstructs world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, sports, business, art, etc.) to extract the tactics, tools, and routines you can use. This includes favorite books, morning routines, exercise habits, time-management tricks, and much more.

  • I suggest listening to Derek Sivers, Debbie Millman, and David Heinemeier Hansson

• Unmistakeable Creative Srini Rao interviews instigators, rebels, and people with a pathological inability to accept the status quo.

• How I Built This

• State of the Art

• StartUp Podcast StartUp is a podcast series about what it’s really like to get a business off the ground.

  • In Season 1, Alex Blumberg told the story of launching this business, Gimlet Media, a podcast network.

  • In Season 2, Lisa Chow joined Alex to follow an entirely new company: a company called Dating Ring, founded by two women in their 20s, outsiders in the male-dominated world of Silicon Valley.

  • In Season 3, rather than following one company over many episodes, they are telling stories about many companies that all have something in common: their companies are stuck, and they know they need to make a big change.