10 episodes
The Why Intercept Sumedhaa Kothari
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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Insofar as learning is parabolic, join us as we ~solve for why~ so many unexpected things have happened while building a business at the intersection of art, business, sustainability and fashion.
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010: Why Can Too Much Passion Be a Bad Thing? (Part 2)
Why can chasing one's passion become nefarious? And how can we get it back into better balance?
Through the experience of shutting down when receiving support, and investigating what it means to assess one's self esteem we came to more deeply investigate the following topics: The Dualistic Nature of Passion, Self-Esteem vs. Self-Worth Vs. Self-Confidence etc, ADHD in Women and so much more.
Full list of references for each episode can be found here: bit.ly/3qhZVNX
Transcripts can be found on Substack: bit.ly/3N8axYH
Theme music by Brooks Hamilton / @brohama
If you learned something you loved or have thoughts for improvement please do not hesitate to reach out in the following places:
Instagram: @thewhyintercept // @by.sume
Website: www.bysume.com
Youtube: @bysume
TikTok: @by.sume -
009: Why Is Being A Great Creative Unrelated To Creating Great Things? (Part 1)
*Why is creativity both the most and least important thing we can do with our lives? Why do we stand to benefit from consistently wanting to be bad at the talents we work so hard to perfect? Such as, in this case, sewing, designing and creating?
Through the experience of happening across a life changing text, we found the answers in this episode before realizing which questions needed asking. In this episode we explore: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, creativity as frosting, Atomic Habits, what it means to be a tortured artist and so much more.
(In Part 2 we will explore: The Dual Nature of Passion, self-worth, neuro-divergence and more. Make sure to hit follow in order to not miss when Part 2 comes out!)
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Theme music by Brooks Hamilton / @brohama
Full list of references for each episode can be found here: bit.ly/3qhZVNX
Transcripts can be found on Substack: bit.ly/3N8axYH
If you learned something you loved or have thoughts for improvement please do not hesitate to reach out in the following places:
Instagram: @thewhyintercept & @by.sume
Website: www.bysume.com
Youtube: @bysume
TikTok: @by.sume -
008: Why Do We Make Ourselves So Busy?
Why are we always out of time? How does the culture we live in influence our scarcity of time? And what are other ways of viewing how to use it?! Through the experience of applying more effort & yielding poorer results while designing a piece for a runway show, we explore why we live in an age where time behaves paradoxically to how we typically best describe using it.
In this episode we explore: Absolute Time, Subjective Time, Temporal Perspective, Linear / Cyclical Nature of Time and much more.
Theme music by Brooks Hamilton / @brohama
If you learned something you loved or have thoughts for improvement please do not hesitate to reach out in the following places:
Instagram: @thewhyintercept, @by.sume
Website: www.bysume.com
TikTok: @by.sume
Youtube: @bysume
Full list of references for each episode can be found here by 6/29: bit.ly/3qhZVNX
Transcripts can be found on Substack: bit.ly/3N8axYH -
007: Why is Storytelling so Hard on Social Media?
Through the experience of struggling to share the stories behind each sustainable creation on social media in a meaningful way, I decided to try and figure out what makes it so difficult by breaking it down piece by piece. Why do stories matter? How do we appreciate them? And what can we do to be an artful storyteller? In this episode we explore concepts such as: The Pragmatic Theory of Truth, telling stories as a brand, the death of storytelling, and so much more.
Theme music by Brooks Hamilton / @brohama
If you learned something you loved or have thoughts for improvement please do not hesitate to reach out in the following places:
Instagram: @thewhyintercept, @by.sume
Website: www.bysume.com
TikTok: @by.sume
Youtube: @bysume
Full list of references for each episode can be found here: bit.ly/3qhZVNX
Transcripts can be found on Substack: bit.ly/3N8axYH -
006: Why Do Statistics Fail to Emotionally Move Us?
Through the experience of prepping sustainability statistics for an interview with The Sustainability Champions podcast, it became top of mind how unemotional the hard hitting statistics felt when researching them. In this episode we explore why it is difficult to perceive of large numbers, how numbers are encoded in the brain, and how we might fail to appreciate the true dimensions of orders of magnitude.
Theme music by Brooks Hamilton / @brohama
If you learned something you loved or have thoughts for improvement please do not hesitate to reach out in the following places:
- Instagram: @thewhyintercept, @by.sume
- Website: bysume.com
- TikTok: @by.sume
- Youtube: @bysume
Transcripts can be found on Substack here on 6/25: bit.ly/3N8axYH
Full list of references for each episode can be found here on 6/25: bit.ly/3qhZVNX -
005: [STORY] Why Might Selling Cars Change How You Think About Google and Fashion?
Through the experience of selling cars, I learned many valuable lessons, one of which completely changed how I thought about my work at Google Cloud. The lesson I learned was one I had to re-learn yet again in this chapter of my life, as I attempt to create a more affordable access point for sustainable fashion. Hope this shocking story inspires agency in your own life & pursuits!
Theme music by Brooks Hamilton / @brohama
If you learned something you loved or have thoughts for improvement please do not hesitate to reach out in the following places:
- Instagram: @thewhyintercept, @by.sume
- Website: bysume.com
- TikTok: @by.sume
- Youtube: @bysume