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Episodes
Monday Jun 08, 2020
Monday Jun 08, 2020
Are you a pet person? Do you have funny or heartwarming stories about pets, past and present? How do they enrich your human relationships?
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Monday Jun 01, 2020
The forms of human contact are wide and diverse, and the common ground the connects us is that we all need it. Has your sanctuary become compromised? Has your relational well run dry in these times?
Monday May 25, 2020
Monday May 25, 2020
You do not need to know everything. But, not knowing can inspire you to learn and expand your curiosity. How do you anchor yourself as you stretch into an unknown?
Monday May 18, 2020
Monday May 18, 2020
How have common or assumed conveniences created an entitlement perspective in a lot of the world, professionally, governmentally, personally? How have these assumptions made us blind to the situation of others? Is it all about you, or should we help others?
Monday May 11, 2020
Monday May 11, 2020
Monopoly money - We all know it's not real money. But, what if you played with REAL money? Listen to the recap of eventful game of Monopoly that Brian played with his children, ages 13 and 11, and how using real money changed their own gaming behavior and inspired real-life learning.
Notes:
Listen to the TedX talk that inspired our own curiosity:
When money isn’t real: the $10,000 experiment | Adam Carroll | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool
Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
Creativity runs wild and free for some. But, is creativity better with constraints? Is it stifling, or like light focused into a laser? Is it either/or, or both/and for creativity and context?
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Pixel art - beautiful, retro, and hot as ever. Josh leads a little leisurely tour on how pixel art works, how video games graphics evolved with the times, and how we loop back around to the retro look. A nice visual lineage of video games for the non-gamer.
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Good life advice: Brian does a quick phone interview with his octogenarian mother-in-law, Sherry Hughey, on the Great Depression and life skills in how to survive through tough times.
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Monday Apr 20, 2020
What guides YOU through change? What do you grieve during it? What do you look forward to in the future?
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Monday Apr 13, 2020
They are not real, but they influenced you more than you know. What cartoons did you watch when you were young? What characters inspired you as a person?
Monday Apr 06, 2020
Monday Apr 06, 2020
How do your preferences change in light of shifting context? How do your priorities affect your preferences?
How does the macro view of all this help us create?
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Why don't we take the time to assess and care for yourself unless forced to do so by circumstance? It's never too late to start somewhere, right now.
Monday Mar 23, 2020
Monday Mar 23, 2020
Celebrate the first 52 weeks of Curiosity Continuum as Josh and Brian reflect on what has taken shape over the last year, give some practical tie-ins, and look to the future of where the next 52 will take us.
Monday Mar 16, 2020
Monday Mar 16, 2020
Do you rely on a position to afford you power over others? Do you give place to over-influence from those in power in places they do not belong?
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Safety: Is there such a thing? Risk: Can we ever really eliminate it? What is stopping YOU from doing something you know you should?
Monday Mar 02, 2020
Monday Mar 02, 2020
Understanding change and progress requires us to understand the starting context for the change. If we can layer our thinking like color gels in a light rig, we will begin to see things clearly and with better understanding.
Here’s the article Josh references in the show regarding theories why stars disappear.
https://www.popsci.com/story/space/100-stars-have-disappeared/
Monday Feb 24, 2020
Monday Feb 24, 2020
In this special edition, we interview CC Intrepid listener, Tyler Dostie. Tyler loves growing food and getting out into the analog world in a digital age. He shares his personal experience and knowledge with us in Josh and Brian's first ever "on the scene" segment that shares practical tips with you, the intrepid listener.
Tyler plants additional content on his YouTube channel: Hands Tied Tyler
Beginning reading that Tyler recommends : Folks This Ain't Normal
Monday Feb 17, 2020
Monday Feb 17, 2020
It’s easy to unify around destruction. It’s another thing entirely to work together and build something meaningful.
Monday Feb 10, 2020
Monday Feb 10, 2020
The Child, aka Baby Yoda, has become a cultural sensation. Let’s discuss how we arrived here and why it impacted us the way it did, whether we are Star Wars fans or not.
Monday Feb 03, 2020
Monday Feb 03, 2020
Music stirs deep places within us. It helps us re-live a moment, get lost in a moment, and help us dream. How do you think of music, and how does it fit into your life?
Monday Jan 27, 2020
Monday Jan 27, 2020
When disaster “suddenly” hits, like the 2008 recession, how many people didn’t see it coming because they didn’t WANT to see it coming?
Monday Jan 20, 2020
Monday Jan 20, 2020
In an increasingly virtual world, some things work better when you are physically in the room with somebody. Do you like sharing space with one another?
Monday Jan 13, 2020
Monday Jan 13, 2020
Our first two-part episode! In Part 2, the guys talk about how a game is really an interactive story, and riff on how basic strategies apply into our daily lives. We ourselves are playing games all the time, whether we realize it or not. It's all just a game...
Related episodes:
Part 1 of this Episode:
https://podcast.curiositycontinuum.com/e/the-constructs-of-gaming-part-1/
The Lessons of Zelda
https://podcast.curiositycontinuum.com/e/the-lessons-of-zelda/
Saving the Princess (?)
https://podcast.curiositycontinuum.com/e/saving-the-princess/
Monday Jan 13, 2020
Monday Jan 13, 2020
Our first two-part episode! A riff on one out most popular episodes, we talk about how video games work. In Part 1, Josh gives a flyover history of how video games came to be today and begins to touch on how game strategy affects daily life. Isn't everything just a big game?
Related episodes:
The Lessons of Zelda
https://podcast.curiositycontinuum.com/e/the-lessons-of-zelda/
Saving the Princess (?)
https://podcast.curiositycontinuum.com/e/saving-the-princess/
Monday Jan 06, 2020
Monday Jan 06, 2020
First impressions matter. But, do our base set of assumptions about people need to be examined?