Best of Design Matters: Brad Listi

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Described as a darkly funny meditation on creativity and family, Brad Listi joins to talk about his new book, “Be Brief and Tell Them Everything.”

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:08.0	Got a business problem?
0:09.0	There's a Ted Talk for that.
0:10.4	Stay updated on everything business, on Ted Business, a podcast hosted by Columbia Business
0:15.2	School Professor Modoupe Akinola.
0:18.0	Every week, she'll introduce you to leaders with unique insights on work, answering questions
0:22.4	like, how do four day work weeks work?
0:25.3	Do will a machine ever take my job?
0:27.7	Got some surprising answers on Ted Business, wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:34.1	This archival episode of Design Matters originally dropped in June of 2022.
0:39.5	The sections of my book that are the most personal and heartfelt and wrenching and difficult
0:45.9	were the ones that I was most concerned about when it came to how the book would be received.
0:52.2	And of course, without fail, these are the sections of the book that people have responded
0:57.7	to most strongly.
1:02.5	From the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.
1:09.8	For 18 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people about
1:13.7	what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working
1:18.0	on.
1:19.0	On this episode, novelist Brad Listy talks about his approach to writing.
1:23.4	Isn't this what we're all hungry for?
1:24.9	Is for somebody to drop the mask and really say what's on their heart and on their mind?
1:34.2	Truth be told, though, Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls, being serious, is almost like the video for
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