Dumb Founded

When did buying something stop meaning you owned it? This is Dumb Founded and today we’re talking about the quiet disappearance of ownership — and what happens when the things you paid for start sending you invoices.

Every policy has a stated intention. And then it has an outcome. This is Dumb Founded and todays episode asks, what happens when those two things point in completely different directions and who benefits when they do.

Selling a product before it's ready sounds like bold moves and hustle culture wins. This episode is about what it actually costs, the compounding debt of every patch applied to a foundation that was never properly laid, and why forward, more, faster is the most expensive instinct in product development.

Schools were designed over a century ago for a specific kind of learner. The economy changed. Our understanding of how brains actually work changed. The classroom largely didn't. This episode is about what happens when a system optimised for compliance meets a mind that wasn't built for it. the kids who were smarter than the lesson, the teachers who were never trained for the full range of...

Every tool you use was designed by someone who made assumptions about how your brain works. This episode is about what happens when those assumptions are wrong and whz fixing them makes everything better for everyone.

Modern buildings are better than ever, sealed, efficient, optimised. We also accidentally made them completely hostile to species that nested in them for centuries. Many garden variety birds are disappearing partly because of how well we now build. This isn't an episode about conservation. It's about what happens when you solve one problem really well and never ask what else you might be b...

Ever wonderd why, how or who created the things that surround our daily lives? Dumb Founded discusses and dives deeper into these things. from founders with ideas to creators, designers, artist and more. Each week we talk about what drove those decisions, what went well, what was missing and what can be done to improve the things that surround us.