Stephen J. Dubner

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning journalist, bestselling author, and co-creator of Freakonomics—the cultural phenomenon that, over the past 20 years, has grown into a global franchise, changing how millions think, revealing the hidden side of everything, and challenging us to question what we know.

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0:00.0	Hello there. This is Debbie Millman, and I'm so excited to share something wonderful with you.
0:07.7	This month, I am featured on Apple Podcasts as one of their creators we love. This is a big time
0:14.9	honor for me, and I'm so thrilled in the ways that Apple has acknowledged the 20 years I've been podcasting Design Matters.
0:22.9	A big thank you to all of my friends at Apple Podcasts for their generosity and support for the last two decades.
0:31.5	I just think people need to understand that they need to give themselves permission to be courageous about
0:41.3	everything, about who they are, about what they make, about what they think.
0:48.6	From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman.
0:55.7	On Design Matters, Debbie talks with some of the most creative people in the world about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on.
1:05.0	On this episode, Stephen Dubner talks about 20 years of Freakonomics and about our extraordinary capacities to adapt and change.
1:14.3	Your minds or brain is a muscle and you can control it.
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2:22.2	What a straight.
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