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Ep 12: The 5-step universal creativity framework used at Disney

What if there were a repeatable exercise routine for enhancing your imagination, creativity and storytelling? Learn the 5-step universal framework Dave used for this purpose during his role as animator for Disney. Find transcript, links and show notes on the episode page.

Ep 11: Lessons from my Father's 50+ year career practicing law

This is a special interview with my father David Tierney on lessons in psychology, trial strategy, persuasion and communication from his 50+ year career as a civil litigation attorney. For transcript, links and show notes visit Problemattic. [https://problemattic.app/episode-details/11-lessons-from-david-tierney]

Ep 10: Founder lessons from building and selling a SaaS company to GoDaddy

Today Josh Strebel former co-founder and CEO of Pagely joins the show to talk about lessons learned from building and selling a 7-figure business to one of the largest hosting providers in the world. We talk about early days of getting it off the ground, transitioning from a consulting service to a products company, hiring and firing, leader-leader culture, pricing lessons and more. Find transcript, links and show notes on the website here [https://problemattic.app/episode-details/10-lessons-from-pagely-josh-strebel].

Ep 9: Getting to What Works Faster

Methodologies like Lean Startup and Customer Development can help us short circuit the long journey of getting to a product that customers love. Aaron Eden tells us how. Aaron Eden is a world-renown expert in innovation having helped a number of large companies make new and disruptive products as well as radical improvements to existing, marginally-successful products. Today he talks us through a scenario of how he would work with the winner from our last event on de-risking aspects of their proposed talk buddy system to combat the mental health crisis in universities. We cover frameworks like the value proposition designer, business model canvas, D4D Next Tool and skills like conducting effective customer empathy interviews, researching a landscape of alternative solutions to find your potential place within it and how to construct effective experiments. By the end of this interview you will have a good overview of the mindset necessary to approach large-scale, intimidating problems. For links, show notes, transcripts and to join one of the project teams mentioned in the show, visit Problemattic.app [https://problemattic.app/episode-details/9-getting-to-what-works-faster].

Ep 8: Forest Fires, Floods, Droughts and Species Extinction

The Internet of Things is making it possible to not only log and analyze data from myriad sensors after the fact but with pervasive connectivity via LoRaWan technology it enables real-time interventional measures as well. In this episode Tiago Marques of Green Metrics explains how they’re using their technology to mitigate forest fires, foods, drought and species extinction. These are just four use cases of how this tech can be applied both for long-term diagnostic / academic purposes as well as a way to enable real-time interventional measures. You will come away from this episode with a better understanding of ways in which micro sensors and pervasive low-power connectivity can help us address these formidable challenges and ultimately respond effectively to climate change. For links, show notes, transcripts and to join one of the project teams mentioned in the show, visit Problemattic.app [https://problemattic.app/].