Thinking on Thinking

Joyus Studio

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Thinking on Thinking

A bi-weekly production of the experience design studio Joyus, co-founders Divya Tak + Kahran Singh talk about behavior, its impact on work + life, the real-life applications + questions they've struggled with on their entrepreneurial journey — and the fascinating insights they've found at the edge of intent.

FEB 12

Thinking on Logical & Absurd Successes and 1000xResist

Divya and Kahran talk about how culture influences your expectations of absurdist elements in storytelling (and success, ofc) , using the discussion with Remy Siu about 1000xResist as a basis for the conversation. Internally consistent and logic are often prioritized by western authors unlike studios like Studio Ghibli. This comes from Enlightenment era thinking that has really engrained itself in western culture. Shout outs given to devised theatre, Kathak, workshops with Srikanth Chicu Reddy. We also workshop Divya's resistance to ephemerality in art, and how new creative methods can lead to new results. Oh, and Kahran may someday do drag.

42 min
JAN 29

Creating a Successful Game in 1000xResist with Remy Siu of Sunset Visitor

Remy Siu, Creative Director of 1000xResist, speaks with Divya about the how questions -- how they made such an incredible game that breaks so many molds, how Remy came to run a game studio with a background in composition and dance, how to exist as a performing artists in today, in Vancouver, in Canada, and to an extent in the world, and how to create art across mediums, transposing the lessons from life to new places, to achieve new results and forms. They talk about devised theater and how the experience in performance art helped the team at sunset visitor to make a game that is deeply emotionally meaningful and uses patterns and systems not used often in games. You can find Remy on https://x.com/RemySiu https://bsky.app/profile/remysiu.com And you can find 1000xresist and the studio on https://www.sunsetvisitor.studio/

1h 4m
JAN 15

Success through Achieving vs Authenticity

Kahran shares stories of his grandfather, SSH Rehman, former director of ITC Limited and leader of ITC Hotels, Divya discusses quality years and Bryan Johnson, Also featured: the graphic novel Sandman, success in academic vs success in life. And there is more unpacking of Pradeep Singh's chasing of success and "big hairy audacious goals."

42 min
JAN 2

Unraveling Success & Purpose

Can you find a sense of purpose without pursuing success? In a fireside chat format, Kahran shares with Divya his surprise that his father, Pradeep, had never felt successful, as Pradeep shared in our last episode, and Kahran and Divya articulate some of the emulate-able parts of Pradeep's approach to life, along with the nature of the often revised definitions of success and being successful.

43 min
12/18/2024

After Success, with Pradeep Singh

What happens after you build a successful company, make a fortune, and achieve the goals you set out to achieve? What is success in the afterwards? In a conversation spanning success, purpose, motivation and satisfaction, Divya interviews Pradeep Singh, the founder and former CEO of Aditi Technologies, Talisma & Vidyanext / Pengala. Pradeep also was the first product manager of Microsoft Excel, and part of the team that grew Microsoft in its decade-long (~1986-1995) domination and explosive growth post-IPO. Pradeep is also co-host Kahran Singh's father.

49 min
12/04/2024

Expectations & Definitions of Success

Kahran and Divya break down what it means to be successful -- and to have been successful and no longer be so. When do our cultural definitions permeate our feelings about successful? And when do they preclude achievement in success? What does it mean to have achievement in success? This second episode in the series about success is scintillating, provocative and guaranteed to leave your head scratching.

46 min
11/20/2024

The Confoundedness of Success

Success: achieving it, the moving goalposts of it, the feeling of it, in a trait, the way we tell ourselves stories of it and, of course, what is it. This discussion deeply jumps into a topic where Divya and Kahran have spent a lot of time, and bring views from their previously divergent, and now, arguably converging views. We’ll be diving deeper into success this season, and bring this focus to all our interviews, as well as our discussions (and interrogations of each other!)

39 min
10/30/2024 · BONUS

Revisiting 402 - Careers & Creativity with Computational_Mama

As we wrap up this season of Thinking on Thinking, we revisit one of our favs from last season. Where we talked to Computational mama about her life and her creative process. Stay tuned we will be back in season 6 with some amazing things.

38 min

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Season One Wrapped!

We have loved publishing the first season of Thinking on Thinking. We will be back in Jan 2023 with Season 2, where we will dive deeper in ideas around motivation, behavior and more! Also stay tuned to see some our special guests in Season 2!

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A bi-weekly production of the experience design studio Joyus, co-founders Divya Tak + Kahran Singh talk about behavior, its impact on work + life, the real-life applications + questions they've struggled with on their entrepreneurial journey — and the fascinating insights they've found at the edge of intent.

Creator

Joyus Studio
Years Active

2022 - 2025
Episodes

67
Rating

Clean
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