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#203 Tom Kubiniec: He Never Owned a Gun. That’s Why His Weapon Racks Won.
“I never saw the box,” he tells me — and the line reframed how I think about beginner’s mind as a competitive advantage.
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49:23
#202 Ben Rennie: AI Didn’t Remove the Struggle. It Rescheduled It.
Where AI leaves the design profession isn’t that the "hard part" disappeared. It’s that the hard part moved to a place most of us weren’t planning to…
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48:45
#197 Ashley Jablow: Why the world's best innovators are also the best iterators
The innovation she remembers most clearly wasn’t a system overhaul or a policy rewrite. It was a woman at a desk who figured out she could sign a PDF…
 • Caden Damiano
46:24
#180 - Chris Pearcey: 250,000 Titles and Nothing to Watch, & The Intent Problem No One Is Solving
Decisio founder Chris Pearcey on why entertainment recommendation engines are designed to overwhelm you & what it reveals about how builders should…
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47:41
#175 - Adam Nash: Why Great Designers Are Actually Behavioral Economists.
Adam Nash — who built LinkedIn's first design team, led through its IPO, and ran Wealthfront as CEO — thinks giving is a design problem, not a values…
 • Caden Damiano
46:38
#162: Matt D Smith – Your AI Edge is The Vocabulary You Already Have
What a decade of design fundamentals taught me about delegating to Claude Code—and why Shift Nudge was secretly an AI onboarding course before AI…
 • Caden Damiano
53:14
#158 Makoto Kern on AI Integration Failures: unlock leadership buy-in, measure real adoption, and protect your competitive moat
Discover what happens when companies spend 8 months integrating AI features nobody uses—and how to avoid the same trap.
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41:23
#154 Tactics for Product Launch Success & The Hidden Secrets of Making Products that "Just Work" w/ Dan De Mars, Head of Product at Current…
ep154 w/ Dan De Mars, Head of Product at Current Backyard
 • Caden Damiano
48:00
Ep145: How to Boost Your Creative Confidence, Taste & Close the Creativity Gap Using AI w/ Ben Rennie, Co-Founder of Reny
Ep 145 Ben Rennie
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48:45
#131 How American Express Consistently Reinvented Itself for the last 175 years w/ Ryan Cailliet—VP of Research and Design at American…
From humble beginnings as a freight forwarder, Amex revolutionized travel with travelers checks and now powers modern fintech experiences. How did it do…
 • Caden Damiano
45:39
Ep #127 Navigating Self-Employment and Personal Promotion with Trevor Nielsen -Founding Designer at Kleo
Case Study on building and promoting a fractional design business
 • Caden Damiano
45:00
Former Wealthfront CEO on Innovating Across Disciplines, Building Emotional Connections in Product Design, & Empowering Charitable Giving EP…
Episode 123 with Adam Nash, CEO of Daffy
 • Caden Damiano
46:38
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