The Cocktail Napkin
By 5by5
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Podcast Description
Some of the greatest ideas begin as scribbles on the back of a cocktail napkin. On this periodical of uncurbed ideas, a wide variety of guests discuss creativity, ideas and inspiration. Hosted by Jeremy Fuksa.
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The Cocktail Napkin 70: The Circle Is Complete | This is the end, my only friend. | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 69: Indefensible Ideas | Look at that beard. | 4/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 68: Look Who's Hawking Sugar Frosted Crack! | Wicked Slick. | 4/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 67: 30 Rooms for Whipple to Squeeze This | You probably have this man's book on your shelf. | 4/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 66: Luckyshirt's Perfect Internet Score | Best show yet. Tell your friends. | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 65: My Canadian Boyfriend | You can't help but feel good when speaking to a Canadian. | 3/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 64: Geeking in the Rain | The rain at SXSW isn't stopping people from finding interesting things that inspire them. Everyone except for the guy at the end. | 3/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 63: The Lamest Nerd in Austin | A bad travel day makes the plans for a dazzling opening SXSW episode fall flat. | 3/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 62: Austin Bound | Jeremy lays out his plan for possible self-destruction in Austin, TX. | 3/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 61: Bridges Don't Build Themselves | Two Kansas City boys, thrust into Internet renown in part by nods from John Gruber, sit down for coffee and discuss taking big leaps. | 3/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 60: In the Halls of the Golden Crown | Just two guys sitting on a futon. | 2/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 58: Smells Like Toast | For when you're running towards a tree REALLY fast... | 2/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 57: Revealing Swedish Secrets | Everything great starts somewhere small. | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 56: Opening the Kimono | Tech descriptions for gear heads. | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 55: Bikram Creativity | It's not a base for mac n' cheese. | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 54: Conversing with the Hexagons | Sometimes the greatest art is in the process. | 1/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 53: Copying Garfield on the Kitchen Floor | Austin Kleon reminds us all that we've got untapped visual intelligence. | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 52: Revenge of the Dinosaur Luddite | Empirical proof sometimes makes creativity stronger. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 51: The Nerd Looks Back at 50 | On the downward slope to 100. | 12/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 50: Flummoxed | -- | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 49: A Love Affair With Failure | The smart creative person knows that a trophy case full of failures is as important as the successes those failures ultimately produce. Some creative people, like Yuvi Zalkow, have a true affection for failure and wear it like a badge of honor. | 11/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 48: Mental Jewelry | Improv is more than just a comedy form. Good improvisation skills translate into a variety of business skills that help you make better things, and Scott Connerly explains the fundamentals of freeing your mind. | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 47: Creative Aversion Therapy | The Industrial and Labor Relations School at Cornell University published a study on human response to creativity. Apparently even though we value creativity and innovation, truly novel and innovative ideas turn our stomach. My friend Jacob Edenfield and | 11/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 46: Let's Consume Everything | A well-rounded mind is a hungry mind, and San Francisco journalist Anna Rascouët-Paz tells Jeremy about all the ways she expands her world via unfettered curiosity. | 10/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 45: Henry Ford Was A Tinkerer | Ford Motor Company was built by a tinkerer and inventor. In an age when branded social media still errs on the cautious side, Scott Monty takes the attitude of his corporate ancestor to guide communications that surprise and delight. | 10/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 44: Post-Apocalyptic Hyperviolence | Brian Winkeler, co-creator of the comic "Bastard Road," visits with Jeremy about comics, characters, dreaming up "they must have been high" kinds of ideas and Kick Buttowski. | 10/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 43: Baggage For Your Imagery | Jeremy spends some time with photographer Alistair Tutton about the changing face of the photography business, renovating silent movie theaters, the beauty of Best Buy 0% financing and letting someone else determine your best work that represents you. | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 42: Broadcast On Your Own Terms | How can someone make the best podcast they can, no matter the size of the production? Jeremy gives some thoughts during the opening keynote at PodCamp Pittsburgh 6. | 9/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 41: Keep the Maker Mind Moving | While he's on the road this week, why not listen to some of Jeremy's thoughts while on the road _last_ week. In this episode, Jeremy begins thinking about the maker mind vs. the manager mind and how the two can work in harmony in the same office. | 9/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 40: Ditching The Pith Helmet | Jeremy and Jason Permenter talk about being "too creative" with science. So much so, Jason moved from the world of volcanology to web design. And, for Jason, it's going well. | 9/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 39: Dear Abby for the Social Age? | Jeremy talks with video producer Michelle Vargas about giving good advice to 15 year-olds, putting good stuff into the world to get good stuff back, mentorship and setting up a video playhouse for the purpose of acting in the moment. | 8/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 38: The Kickstarter Napkin? | Emails are slowly starting to trickle in with thoughts and questions about the show, and I thought I'd take this episode to answer a couple of the more pressing questions. | 8/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 37: Surfing The Flow | Geoff Barnes discusses radical shifts in career focus from painting instructor to user experience strategist and the fine art of letting go just enough to keep from being a control freak in the things you make with others. We eventually wander into the wa | 8/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 36: The Beer Epiphany | If you're like me, you've thought about how great it would be to make your own beer. Hopefully you're not like me in buying a brewing kit from a home furnishing store. Mike Reinhardt, Jr. and Nate Watson are not like me. They brew bold and unique craft be | 7/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 35: Pecha Kucha | Pecha Kucha is a Japanese term that translates to “chit-chat” in English. It's also an activity that combines PowerPoint and performance art into a fast-paced, six minute and forty second look into a person's passion. | 7/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 34: Who Are You, Anyway? | Iterative refinement is the key to making something truly great and versatile. In this episode, Jeremy wants to know a little something about you, the viewer, that might make this show better. | 7/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 33: Bucking the Peter Principle | Come hear Collen Wainwright's tales of dancing bears around cereal, commercial acting, content strategy, Battledecks and the awesome feeling one gets when seeing someone's "lights go on." | 7/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 32: Famous Last Words | Kansas City filmmaker Brian Boye has been thinking about an idea that's very near to his heart for years. And now, with the help of Kickstarter, he is working toward making his documentary, "Famous Last Words" a reality. | 6/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 31: The Being of Non-Being | I discussed the philosophies of design strategy, user experience and -- well -- *philosophy* with Erika Hall, the Director of Strategy at Mule Design in San Francisco. The lesson learned? Don't try to talk deeply about philosophy when you didn't pay that | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 30: ADHD + Creativity | After wondering for over a decade, I was finally diagnosed with adult ADHD. In this episode, I wonder how this disorder correlates overall to the creative mind and how it can be harnessed to make great things. | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 29: How The Sausage Is Made | Sometimes working from the solitude of home beats collaboration. But what about people who rarely, if ever, work in the same room as their colleagues? Greg Storey of Happy Cog West explains how they approach being in so many locations as well as educating | 6/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 28: American Drink | In this episode, Albert McMurry talks about the idea behind American Drink while sharing a couple of drinking-related stories. Also, why not everybody likes folks who need to Always Be Linking and Albert's, um -- *interesting* -- performance at 2010's SXS | 12/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 27: Responsive Web Design | Ethan Marcotte and I talk about responsive design, the future of CSS frameworks that might support this notion, speaking at An Event Apart and what it's like for him to strike back on his own after a successful tenure at Happy Cog. | 12/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 26: Ad Guys Don't Get It | Chris Riebschlager and I sit outside to discuss our ridiculous desire for Twitter stars, not being 100% comfortable in an "ad guy's" skin and the Zen detachment of Twitter. It's way less important than it sounds. | 10/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 25: My Twitter Portfolio | Quinn Katherman, one of 18 funny women that HuffPo thinks you should follow, got her first copywriting job based on her portfolio of tweets. Yes, you read that right. | 9/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 24: No F's for Advertising | Even though I'm in advertising, I don't much care for the industry's navel gazing tendencies. Some of us ad folk just want to make cool things that people appreciate and find useful. Increasingly, that’s what brands want over the traditional messaging c | 8/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 23: Journalism as Conversation | Doreen Marchionni explains Journalism As Conversation, a fascinating blend of traditional journalism with the collaborative voice of citizen journalism. | 8/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 22: Cooking, Consideration and Caring | Greg Turner of Kitchen Sojourn discusses caring about the end product, whether it's a photo, a novel or a simple meal for your family. | 8/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 21: Creative Modality | Merlin Mann and I cover a lot of territory, from creative failure to creative modality and how being in the wrong mode at the wrong time might bring on that failure. | 7/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 20: The Brown Note | Adam Lisagor talks with me before he became the famous auteur that Dan idolizes. In this episode we talk about creative failure and being incredibly lazy. | 6/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 19: Making People Smarter | I spoke to Merlin Mann on the phone. After a great conversation, he ended it with an interesting question: "How do we make people smarter?" I have a couple of ideas. | 5/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 17: SXSW 2010 Recap | Most people will focus on the technologies and innovations showcased at South by Southwest Interactive. I decided to focus on how creative people can better convey their interactive ideas in an environment where the time and attention to process those ide | 3/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktail Napkin 16: Poisonous Advice | Creative Directors that are more interested in money or fame than creating good work are apt to give poisonous advice. In this episode, I shed the last pounds of mental baggage left by some of those people. | 1/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 53 Episodes |
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