Salt & Fat: Any Form of Cultured Dairy

Episode #12: You know all about food substitutions, but what about food upgrades, the little things worth spending a couple extra bucks on. Neven insists no one ever went broke buying olive oil, we try to inspire an anarchist nut butter movement, Jim unloads on “pizza dabbers”, and Neven has more food puns.

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Running from the Law: Injuries and Overages

Episode #17: The return of Gabe’s bloody nipples! Not really, but there is talk of chafing and tender tendons. Also, when everyone on the internet is always sort of working, how do you track overtime and why should you care? Document or suffer the consequences!

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Let's Make Mistakes: Making LIVE Mistakes

Episode #49: Mike and Katie broke out their best clothes and the swear jar to record Let’s Make Mistakes in front of a live studio audience in San Francisco. They discuss how to do your best design work regardless of what type of design work you do and when you happen to realize what the best solution is. And they start a discussion about the issue of brogramming in the tech industry and being responsible for your work. There is an awful lot of talk about breast feeding and a few special guests.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Dining or Designing Alone

Episode #48: Mike Monteiro and Katie Gillum present their shortest Let’s Make Mistakes ever. They talk about Moneyball, Jonah Hill’s diet, and doing things alone like going to a movie and/or designing things. They have very strong feelings about the new Brooklyn Nets design and the public reception of the direction. The show itself is so short in part because they are saving some of the super cool stuff they recorded for an even more amazing show in a few weeks and, in other part, in anticipation of their impending recording in front of a LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE. One of them is scared and the other is so psyched. You can hear it in their voices.

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Salt & Fat: Cooking Less

Episode #11: Neven and Jim bemoan the fact that they haven’t been in the kitchen much lately and explore whether it’s possible to actually cook more by cooking less. Plus, microwave snobbery and crab legs on the bus.

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Running from the Law: Managing Internal Problems

Episode #16: Gabe laments his mile-18 tummy trouble during the otherwise terrific Oakland Marathon. Erika and Gabe talk about best practices for employee reviews and dealing with people who aren’t working out. As always, clear expectations and clear communication save a lot of trouble in the long run. And keep eating those orange slices!

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Running from the Law: Culture Outside In

Episode #15: After a quick survey of the Bay Area fitness scene, Gabe rhapsodizes about Outlook and his genetic lawyering heritage. Erika attempts to describe the interplay between startup and design culture.

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Let's Make Mistakes: There’s No Shaming in Design

Episode #47: Mike Monteiro and Katie Gillum do battle against passive-aggressive behavior in client services. Mike gets super mad, and Katie looks forward to wading through the hate mail. They also discuss the varied glories of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and “how much is too much” of your personality online. Mike’s NPR voice is back too. Enjoy.

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Salt & Fat: Starting Fresh

Episode #10: Our final episode from the Mule Radio archives, all the way back from January. We start the new year off right. We’ll tackle cooking with our mothers-in-law, cleaning out your pantry and freezer, cooking without shopping, rancid oils, and throwing down over blue vs. white masking tape. Neven gets philosophical and wonders if our kitchens are aspirational graveyards.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Getting Straight to Design

Episode #46: Katie tries to get straight to the design part of the show, and Mike waxes poetic about the most popular boys’ names in the UK. They discuss the delicate balance of research and relationship management you need to use when deciding to work with clients and deciding when you need to not work with them anymore. They also talk about their graduate school experiences and their application to their current jobs.

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Running from the Law: Interviews and Measured Truths

Episode #14: What is illegal to ask during a job interview? And what do employers really want to find out? Gabe discusses good interviewing practices and Erika shares a bit about the Mule approach. A discussion of personal informatics follows and Gabe divulges the metric that makes him feel most competitive.

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Let's Make Mistakes: “Teaching Clients” and Gendering Pets

Episode #45: In this episode of Let’s Make Mistakes, Mike asks Katie the eternal question, “Have you ever seen a dog doing a cat?” While somehow being more interested in pet reproductive behaviors than ever and creating the concept of “Paula Deen Brain”, they delve into the problems of thinking you can “teach” your clients and messed up attitudes toward research.

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Let's Make Mistakes: One Year of Mistakes Down

Episode #44: After nearly 365 days on the internet airwaves, Mike Monteiro and Katie Gillum look back at what mistakes they have wrought and discuss the process of writing about your work while you still have to do your work. In their walk down memory lane, they flashback to an old deleted scene from a show that illustrates Mike’s regional difficulties with pronunciation.

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Salt & Fat: Presses, from Garlic to Cookbooks

Episode #9: Jim’s a little under the weather in this classic episode from the Mule Radio archives. Talk turns from garlic soup to the garlic press and other single use tools. We stock up on rice and break down a few of our favorite cookbooks and sites.

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Salt & Fat: Let's Make Mistakes in the Kitchen

Episode #8: Jim and Neven have very different ideas about what constitute odds and ends in your pantry, from chocolate to beet juice. They live to cook another day as they discuss their many, many culinary mistakes.

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Running from the Law: Looking for Law in All The Right Places

Episode #13: When and how should you start working with a business lawyer? Erika and Gabe answer this question and offer some thoughts on finding the right one for what you need. (Hint: Start looking before you’ve angered and alienated everyone you know.) Then conversation turns to Gabe’s strange fascination with ultrarunning.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Meet Matt Haughey

Episode #43: With Katie away from making mistakes for a week, Mike invites Matt Haughey and Jessie Char for a conversation about Disneyland, business strategy, and BENGAY®.

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Salt & Fat: Not Just a Lubricant

Episode #7: It’s another one from the Mule Radio archives. Neven dishes on cooking all weekend for your coworkers, making your own worcestershire sauce, and why you never just quadruple a recipe. We stock up on our namesake, salts and fats, and discuss the joy of cooking with sea water.

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Salt & Fat: Pun Intended

Episode #6: This week, we start with a breakdown of fried chicken, what makes it awesome, and how to make it best. We’ll stock our larders with vinegar while Neven spins exotic tales of flavored drinking vinegars. And finally: food puns!

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Hour of Pour: Drink It Until You Like It

Episode #3: Our guest Matthew Latkiewicz takes your hosts Jessie Char and Jason Permenter into the world of drinking, Star Wars Yoga, Den Haag, lap dancing, Smashes, Flips, Fancys, Fizzes and Blowies.

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Running from the Law: Risk! Exposed!

Episode #12: Know your regulations! Beware of warranties! What does indemnity mean anyway?!? Gabe and Erika discuss how to reduce your exposure to risk as an employer, designer, or developer. Then, they whinge a bit about running in mild weather.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Another Stupid RFP Process

Episode #42: Mike and Katie discuss why RFP processes are stupid and lead to bad work.

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Running from the Law: Starting Up and Tapering Down

Episode #11: Begin with the end in mind! If you are thinking of striking out on your own, this episode is for you. Protect your assets, pick the right business entity, and get your agreements in order. Enjoy Gabe’s rant about insurance, which might be a result of taper madness as he anticipates the final days before his race.

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Running from the Law: The Pitter Patent of Lawyer Feet

Episode #10: Software patent lawsuits are all the rage, but who really benefits? (Hint: It’s the patent lawyers.) Erika and Gabe dig into the downside of software patents. Then they chat a bit about the motivational power of eating and tweeting to help you stick to your running program.

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Let's Make Mistakes: One Time in a Card House with Stephanie Morgan…

Episode #41: Stephanie Morgan, game producer to the game stars, stops in to chat with Mike and Katie about hot spots, self-flagellation, and not about casino buffets. When they have a few minutes, they discuss “gamification” in its most meaningful as well as its most useless forms. Stephanie shares her past as a professional card player and some deep analysis of gameplay. This show rocks. As a bonus, Katie doesn’t actually throw up in this episode, but Mike tries his hardest to instigate.

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Hour of Pour: The Con of Cons

Episode #2: Jessie and Jason discuss the homogenizing tendencies of conferences, and Jason dresses up as Gandalf.

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Salt & Fat: Stocking Your...Stock

Episode #5: We butcher the pronunciation of a few regional dishes before diving into one of the best and most basic tools for the dedicated cook: stocks! What it is, where it comes from, how it’s different, and how to do it yourself.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Let's Fight!

Episode #40: Katie asks Mike why he enjoys picking fights on Twitter so much.

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Running from the Law: Digesting an Ownership Stake

Episode #9: Should you accept equity as payment for your work? Erika and Gabe offer food for thought on this matter, along with suggestions for the most effective (yet disgusting) fuels for long workouts and tender tummies.

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Salt & Fat: What I Could Do With a Duck

Episode #4: Another classic from the Mule Radio archives! This week, we talk about the difficulty of cooking for one, making fancy food just for yourself (Neven’s answer will shock and amaze you!), cooking all day and still having nothing to eat, and Achewood’s fried chicken. When it comes to stocking your larder, we’re all about flour.

(Also! We’re trying something a little different with this episode, making it available as an AAC enhanced podcast, complete with links right inline. Let us know how it works!)

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Let's Make Mistakes: Pride and Responsibility

Episode #39: In this week’s episode of Let’s Make Mistakes, Mike and Katie talk about handling repercussions of your past work relationships and designers’ responsibility when they run into a project or an idea they don’t like. The theme song of the week is Iron Man.

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Running from the Law: Arbitrate My Fartlek

Episode #8: Gabe laughs into the wind as he and Erika explore the benefits of speed play and the pitfalls of “private courts”.

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Hour of Pour: Getting to Now You

Episode #1: In which Jason and Jessie realize how boring their lives have become and talk about what they can do to fix that.

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Running from the Law: Trademarks and Cross-Training

Episode #7: If you’re in it for the long haul, you’ll want to protect yourself from injury. Erika and Gabe cover the basics of trademark protection and chat about cross-training for better fitness.

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Salt & Fat: Kitchen Manners

Episode #3: Are there rules for cooking with other people? How do you balance an awesome meal with good company? And what do you do with teutonic foodies?

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Running from the Law: Run Alone? Work Together!

Episode #6: Erika and Gabe chat about their respective preferences for running companionship and offer strategies for successful working relationships.

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Let's Make Mistakes: We Talk About Design (and Racism)!

Episode #38: Mike and Katie talk about making mistakes and making decisions: decisions about structuring user research, about racism and design, and about interruptions to your work. And if that’s too much design talk, we also talk about family members walking around in their underwear.

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Running from the Law: Fixed Price, Fast Pace

Episode #5: Erika and Gabe talk about the considerations of flat-fee contracts vs. time and materials, as well as how to deal with lactate build-up.

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Salt & Fat: Cooking with Love

Episode #2: Spend Valentine’s Day doing something you love—cooking, of course! Jim and Neven chat about why you should cancel your dinner reservations for February 14, dining for amateurs, and how a grilled cheese can be an act of love.

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Salt & Fat: Stocking Your Larder

Episode #1: We dug deep into the Mule Radio archives to find the earliest episode of Salt & Fat, recorded way back in the fall of 2011. Neven and Jim start off with a conversation about where the name came from, who’s who, still-in-season tomatoes, first recipes, and what in the world a “larder” is.

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Running from the Law: IP and Ice Baths

Episode #4: Sometimes a chilling effect is just what you want. Erika and Gabe discuss the mysteries of cooling your thighs and protecting your ideas.

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Let's Make Mistakes: A Conversation with Amy Jane Gruber

Episode #37: Mike and Katie finally get to talk to the woman behind the fireball. Mike and Amy discuss their trouble with friendliness, and Katie and Amy talk about what makes them angry. Along the way, they touch on tupperware tossing, parental/spousal abuse, and life-long romances.

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Running from the Law: Stupid Laws and Smart Shoes

Episode #3: Erika and Gabe reminisce about SOPA and PIPA and review key considerations in running shoe selection.

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Running from the Law: What Not to Disclose

Episode #2: Erika and Gabe discuss the pros and cons of using an NDA to protect intellectual property and debate the necessity of hiding one’s hideous mutilated toenails.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Making Mistakes with John Gruber

Episode #36: Mike and Katie sit down with John Gruber himself and discuss the trouble with “booth babes”, conferences, and iconic jerseys from the biggest asshole teams in the USA.

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Running from the Law: New Penalties and First Marathons

Episode #1: In this first episode of Running from the Law, Erika Hall and Gabe Levine discuss some California legislation that could affect design shops and other small businesses, the joys of endurance training, hiring penalties, and Nip Guards.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Scraping Back Your Dignity

Episode #35: In an especially dissociative episode of Let’s Make Mistakes, Mike Monteiro and Katie Gillum speculate wildly about the similarities between design and law. They find a way to do volunteer work that doesn’t have to suck, and Mike ruins a perfectly good anecdote about House of Hose in Spokane.

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Let's Make Mistakes: For The Good

Episode #34: Mike and Katie talk about the social skills wrought on the little diamond, hardwood, and gridiron; the problems of Pro Bono work and volunteering; and how one person can start to right a bad design culture. And they want to hear about your mistakes!

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Let's Make Mistakes: Making New Mistakes

Episode #33: Forced church attendance, television, the technology of textbooks, trying new things, and designer resolutions. Mike and Katie talk about all this and more on this week’s Let’s Make Mistakes.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Ringing in a New Year of Mistakes

Episode #32: Mike Monteiro and Katie Gillum spend their last episode of 2011 talking through why Louis C.K.’s comedy experiment works so well, high level and low level mistakes, and saying goodbye.

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Let's Make Mistakes: The Family Business

Episode #31: This week Mike and Katie discuss mixing design work and family in a discussion that ends up being about whether you can ever go home again. They also talk about asking leading research questions, using fake metrics, and a little more about bad names for blankets.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Holiday Mistakes: A Seasonal Special

Episode #30: Mike and Katie celebrate the season of sharing and crying by getting visitors at the annual Mule holiday party to share their biggest holiday mistakes. And because mistakes have no season, they get stories about Christmas mistakes, Passover mistakes, Festivus, Super Bowl, and many other mistakes.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Of Shame and Quitting

Episode #29: Mike and Katie discuss having (no) shame about your search history, where shame comes from, and quitting your job.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Taking Responsibility

Episode #28: Mike and Katie discuss bias and design flaws in Siri and about how people should respond to mistakes online, both their own mistakes and others’. After the topical business, they discuss what it means to “move up” in a design career and how to make decisions about promotions at your work.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Giving Thanks

Episode #27: This week’s Let’s Make Mistakes is all about thanks. Mike and Katie talk about Thanksgiving as an immigrant, as an eater, and as a member of a huge family. They discuss charging different rates for different jobs and when free work isn’t spec work.

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Let's Make Mistakes: The Diabetes of Design

Episode #26: This week is story time with Greg Storey on Let’s Make Mistakes. Mike, Katie, and Greg talk about requests for spec work, industrial interior design, and the artistry of grocery bagging.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Bitching, Pitching, and "Innovation"

Episode #25: Mike and Katie talk about olfactory hallucinations, discuss whether there is any real innovation, and make plans for the Let’s Make Mistakes field trip while fielding a variety of good questions from the loyal listeners of the show. Since recording we have found that Katie’s problem with local water was not all in her head.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Generation X versus the Millennials

Episode #24: Solve all the world’s problems? Mike and Katie welcome tech journalist, former write-in San Francisco mayoral candidate, and southern gentleman: Mat Honan to talk about his ideas on how the youngish generations deal with adversity, journalistic “impartiality,” and Mike’s character. Corporate conferences, pivoting for personal wealth, and fat axl all make an appearance.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Sí, Se Puede Diseñar

Episode #23: In this episode of Let’s Make Mistakes, the discussions centers on jobs, cartoons, and personal style. Mike Monteiro doesn’t like when people ask for free designer work; Katie Gillum is still fine talking to him when he’s angry, so they discuss if and when people might do spec work for the President’s new jobs program. A surprise “guest” stops to chat for a little while, and they put out an earnest request for visual representations of an NBA throwback Turducken.

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Let's Make Mistakes: The Saddest Place on Earth

Episode #22: Mike and Katie field their first “call-in” question and talk about not killing the design feedback messenger. Also they talk about the worst night of Mike’s life. They have a lot of big ideas, and they invite you, yes you, to submit a new type of question to Let’s Make Mistakes and sign up for their 3 on 3 league.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Meth, Sexism, Racism, Meth, Design

Episode #21: Mike and Katie discuss design portfolio and how you represent your work, and they clarify misconceptions about “ethics” and design. They also put to rest the issues they have with meth and vegans, Mad Men and censorship, and plane etiquette.

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Let's Make Mistakes: The Politics of Disagreement: From A to Zooey

Episode #20: It turns out roving bands of angry people handle neighborhood matters very differently in Philadelphia and (everywhere else) San Francisco. Mike and Katie talk about disagreeing with clients on small issues, style, ethics, politics and when and how you do that. Also when Katie mentions Barth, Mike thinks she’s talking about Barthes. Can you imagine what philosophical hijinx could come of that!?

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Let's Make Mistakes: The Dog Has A Bit of A Reputation in This Town: Part 2 of Interview with Chris Sacca

Episode #19: Today’s episode of Let’s Make Mistakes is a study in exciting data followed by tech and valley culture with some contract killings and pet talk mixed in. Mike and Katie discuss lying for an employer and then continue their discussion with Chris Sacca, who really throws down on cats in this episode.

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Let's Make Mistakes: What? No Pheasant!?: Part 1 of Interview with Chris Sacca

Episode #18: Mike and Katie talk with Chris Sacca about being hugged by average tweeters who recognize the man on the street, hugging Ann Curry, and hugging the hustler inside you.

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Let's Make Mistakes: What I Did On Summer Vacation

Episode #17: Mike Monteiro and Katie Gillum return from their hiatus talking about what taking “time off” in design and other creative fields actually means. They discuss how you really get final approval for design and film work. Mike refuses to stop talking about dwarves; Katie, about the current effects of European colonial history.

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Let's Make Mistakes: In the Mood for Client Services

Episode #16: Mike Monteiro is in a bad mood as he and Katie Gillum are joined by Erika Hall to discuss client services and the discussion about whether we have come to the “end of client services.” There is ego to be discussed; ego, what gets delivered to clients, selecting a backend.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Engineered Mistakes

Episode #15: Mike and Katie welcome Sir Rod Begbie to Let’s Make Mistakes. They discuss the Nancy Drew fanfic Mike has been writing, moving from one company to another, and designer-engineer relationships. Can we all just get along and make things or is everyone their own special type of flower/Tolkien character?

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Let's Make Mistakes: Not Your Friend

Episode #14: Mike and Katie talk about research for small scale projects and not being a jerk (about clients) on the internet. They discuss the importance of explaining why you need research as a designer, which is as easy as explaining celebrity chefs or hit men, but not celebrity hit men.

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Let's Make Mistakes: All Age Design Show

Episode #13: Though all of their shows are “all ages,” Mike and Katie answer the questions of listeners of a variety of ages and experience levels. They talk about the pitfalls of hiring a designer for a job and how to do it better. And they discuss leaving design jobs (whether you can you stay “friends” or connections on social networking sites after a bad end to a job).

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Let's Make Mistakes: Barely Legal

Episode #12: Mike Monteiro and Katie Gillum welcome Gabe Levine to discuss the legalish parts of client services. They talk about how to plan for when people become their worst selves in design, contracts as diapers, the Golden Rule. Katie is taken off guard when Gabe calls her a business woman, and the three of them pitch a new mistresses and 2nd family box at baseball games.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Emotions, Privacy, and Men

Episode #11: Mike and Katie admit some mistakes. They also have a Diversity Check-in about boys’ clubs in all industries, Father’s Day, and private and public areas. Finally, they shake up the rhythm of the show with a special dietary and musical guest, the Paleo Hobo.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Working for the Empire

Episode #10: Mike and Katie talk a bit more about flipping the Flip and flipping companies. They chat about the differences between being a designer at a start up and at a design agency, the Rock’s Family Tree, and Jordan’s muscle deposition. Mike makes strong statements about some sports and LeBron. Katie has a movie suggestion.

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Let's Make Mistakes: Portuguese Inquisition

Episode #9: Mike takes his first steps as an interviewer while Katie sits in the hot seat about research methodology in design. The discussion veers into manipulation vs. getting the best out of people, how research helps talk clients out of bad ideas, and a lot about chocolate brown pants suits.

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