Wake Up Excited!
Wake Up Excited!
Podcast Description
Inspiring conversations with exuberant humans about how to live a creative, fulfilling, and authentic life. Hosted by enthusiasm enthusiast, Brad Frost.
We experience a brief moment of truth when we first wake up in the morning. Before the cold shower of reality, our infinite to-do lists, and macro-level woes seize our consciousness. We experience a brief moment of excitement — and this pure moment tells us something important about ourselves.
There are people out there who seem to move through life with intention, authenticity, creativity, kindness, and enthusiasm. And they do this despite the deeply inperfect world we inhabit. This podcast is an attempt to learn from these people.
Through wide-ranging conversations, Wake Up Excited explores guests' passions, interests, enthusiasms, and philosophy of life.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast delves into themes such as creativity, personal growth, community engagement, and mental health. Specific episodes explore topics including the impact of social media on mental well-being, work-life balance amidst societal pressures, and the empowerment derived from creative endeavors. For example, discussions with guests like Jessica Hische and Aarron Walter highlight the significance of positivity and the relationship between personal values and financial decisions.
Inspiring conversations with exuberant humans about how to live a creative, fulfilling, and authentic life. Hosted by enthusiasm enthusiast, Brad Frost.
We experience a brief moment of truth when we first wake up in the morning. Before the cold shower of reality, our infinite to-do lists, and macro-level woes seize our consciousness. We experience a brief moment of excitement — and this pure moment tells us something important about ourselves.
There are people out there who seem to move through life with intention, authenticity, creativity, kindness, and enthusiasm. And they do this despite the deeply inperfect world we inhabit. This podcast is an attempt to learn from these people.
Through wide-ranging conversations, Wake Up Excited explores guests’ passions, interests, enthusiasms, and philosophy of life.
Brad chats with Miriam Suzanne about pottery, theater, CSS, and why we shouldn’t just accept AI as the way. Miriam describes their through-line as collaborative creativity across pottery, theater, client work, and CSS standards, arguing process shapes results and that CSS is inherently collaborative with users, browsers, and devices. She critiques rigid notions of originality and authenticity, emphasizing growth and multiplicity. Miriam rejects “results over process” arguments, challenges claims of democratization amid surveillance, environmental costs, and corporate control, and calls for collective agency to imagine and build better tools and systems.
Topics:
- (00:00) – Waking Up Excited
- (02:26) – Returning to Pottery
- (04:51) – Theater as Hybrid Art
- (07:00) – Inviting the Audience In
- (11:14) – Questioning Authenticity
- (17:20) – Theater in Prisons
- (28:36) – Facilitating Collaboration Everywhere
- (38:06) – Why CSS Feels Fuzzy
- (53:01) – AI for Early Prototypes
- (01:01:05) – Fix Orgs Not Tools
- (01:08:10) – Using AI Without Hype
- (01:17:40) – Uneasy Benefits Tradeoff
- (01:26:10) – AI’s Original Sin And Accountability
- (01:36:28) – Vision And Agency
- (01:45:22) – Music Recommendation
- (01:48:09) – Where To Follow And CSS Courses
Links:
- oddbird.net
- grapefruitlab.com
- miriamsuzanne.com
- courses.oddbird.net
- Balsamiq
- Harvest
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Discord
- The Rolling Stones
- Velvet Underground
- Lou Reed
- Parliament-Funkadelic (P-Funk)
- Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
- Teacup Gorilla
- Emily Rogers
- “Franchise” by Isaac Asimov
- Walt Whitman
- John Allsopp — “Dao of Web Design”
- Busch Gardens
- Riverdance
- “12 Angry Men”
- Timnit Gebru
- Emily Bender
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