Dumb Founded is a show about the decisions behind everything that gets designed. Products, systems, architecture, businesses, anything built by humans for humans had someone making choices along the way. We dig into those choices, what drove them, what worked, what didn’t, and what it all reveals about how we build things. For founders, designers, and anyone who looks at the world and wonders why it ended up the way it did. Honest conversations, occasional guests, and room to laugh. Hosted by Zac.

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When did buying something stop meaning you owned it? This is Dumb Founded and todaywe’re talking about the quiet disappearance of ownership — and what happens when thethings you paid for start sending you invoices.

Part time Owner

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Every policy has a stated intention. And then it has an outcome. This is Dumb Founded and todays episode asks, what happens when those two things point in completely different directions and who benefits when they do.

Up in Smoke

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Selling a product before it&#39;s ready sounds like bold moves and hustle culture wins. This episode is about what it actually costs, the compounding debt of every patch applied to a foundation that was never properly laid, and why forward, more, faster is the most expensive instinct in product development.

Vapourware

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Schools were designed over a century ago for a specific kind of learner. The economy changed. Our understanding of how brains actually work changed. The classroom largely didn&#39;t. This episode is about what happens when a system optimised for compliance meets a mind that wasn&#39;t built for it. the kids who were smarter than the lesson, the teachers who were never trained for the full range of minds in their room, and why the solution was always simpler than the system wanted to admit.

Slackers

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Every tool you use was designed by someone who made assumptions about how your brain works. This episode is about what happens when those assumptions are wrong and whz fixing them makes everything better for everyone.

The Mop

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Modern buildings are better than ever, sealed, efficient, optimised. We also accidentally made them completely hostile to species that nested in them for centuries. Many garden variety birds are disappearing partly because of how well we now build. This isn&#39;t an episode about conservation. It&#39;s about what happens when you solve one problem really well and never ask what else you might be breaking in the process.

Bird Box

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Ever wonderd why, how or who created the things that surround our daily lives? Dumb Founded discusses and dives deeper into these things. from founders with ideas to creators, designers, artist and more. Each week we talk about what drove those decisions, what went well, what was missing and what can be done to improve the things that surround us.

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Dumb Founded is a show about the decisions behind everything that gets designed. Products, systems, architecture, businesses, anything built by humans for humans had someone making choices along the way. We dig into those choices, what drove them, what worked, what didn’t, and what it all reveals about how we build things. For founders, designers, and anyone who looks at the world and wonders why it ended up the way it did. Honest conversations, occasional guests, and room to laugh. Hosted by Zac.