I'm pulling on the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

Okay. So in the morning, before I drive to work, I always figure out what my topic for the day is.

And one of the things I do is I check to see, have I done it before? I've done over a thousand podcasts.

So there are topics sometimes that I forget that I've done.

But while looking today, I realized that there's a topic I did do, but I did like 10 years ago.

And I decided that a lot has changed in 10 years.

So I'm going to do an updated version of this podcast.

So the podcast is on exploratory design. So I want to really dig in deep and talk about what exactly we do in exploratory design. So I'll spend a little

bit of time telling the history, which I think I cover in the first podcast, but just for those that

might not have listened to all thousand plus in my podcast.

Okay, so the story begins at the end of the Great Designer Search 2.

Ethan Fleischer wins and Sean Main comes in second.

Now, we had done the second grade designer search a little bit different than the first grade designer search and the third.

Basically, what happened was we asked each person, each finalists to build their own world.

And then their challenges were all within their own world.

And the idea behind it was we were looking for a little bit different set of skills.

We wanted a little more cohesive, you know, building a world type design skills.

So what happened was once they were hired, I wanted to continue sort of working with them and training them and, you know, teaching them.

So I came up with an interesting idea um there was a set upcoming cons of tarquere blocks how long ago this was

uh and i i knew one thing about it i knew that i wanted to do large small large and i wanted the

small set to be drafted with both large sets, but the two large sets did not be

drafted together. This was back in the days of the three set blocks. It was nearing the end of the

...