Thinking on Thinking

Mar 12 2025 69 ep. 37 mins 3

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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.

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Thinking on the Smiqql Acquisition Deck

Mar 12 2025 47 mins

In this first video episode, Kahran and Divya break down the deck that Smiqql recently used for their acquisition, looking at what the different parts of the deck are doing and places they could be more successful.In this new running series, we invite listeners to submit artifacts (decks, websites, pitches, etc.) and we love to unpack them on a future episode to [email protected].

Building the Motivation for Success

Feb 26 2025 35 mins

Divya and Kahran discuss externalizing motivation and particularly externalizing parts of the hard parts of the creative process, and speak of embodied versus cognitive thinking. And the difference between finding resonance and liking something. Mentions include: the book I'm Very Into You, which is correspondence between two artists, Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark, the early 20

Thinking on Absurdist Successes and 1000xResist

Feb 12 2025 42 mins

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 engr

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

Jan 29 2025 64 mins

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, transposin

Success through Achieving vs Authenticity

Jan 15 2025 42 mins

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."

Unraveling Success & Purpose

Jan 01 2025 42 mins

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 bein

After Success, with Pradeep Singh

Dec 18 2024 49 mins

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

Expectations & Definitions of Success

Dec 04 2024 45 mins

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 leav

The Confoundedness of Success

Nov 20 2024 39 mins

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 bri

Revisiting 402 - Careers & Creativity with Computational_Mama

Oct 30 2024 37 mins

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.