Through the experience of prepping sustainability statistics for an interview with <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/3N7kZoZPOpVVBtGGVn0Hz0?si=229e267ca7ee4988" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">The Sustainability Champions</a> 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
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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

007: Why is Storytelling so Hard on Social Media?

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.