Ted Audio Collective

When anybody in a group or in a room tries to take a risk that helps people meaningfully

connect despite the awkwardness, I'm always very moved and very grateful.

From the Ted Audio Collective this is Design Matters with Debbie Moment.

For 17 years Debbie Moment has been talking with some of the world's most creative people

about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about

and working on.

And now some of those interviews appear in print in Debbie's brand new book Why Design Matters,

Conversations with the world's most creative people.

It's coming out in February of this year.

In anticipation of the book, we're releasing interviews from the archives this month.

We thought it would be fun for listeners to hear not only some great interviews but also

to hear how the podcasts evolved over the years.

So we've been releasing the oldest ones first and proceeding chronologically.

In May of 2018 Debbie spoke with Priya Parker about meetings and gatherings and why so many

don't work.

In so many group contexts we tend to follow scripts, whether or not we want to.

Priya Parker after the break.

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