Inside the Design Studio with David Peck
This podcast is where creativity meets real lifeācandid conversations on reinvention, identity, and designing a life that fits (with a bit of humor, because why suffer twice?).
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I sit down with designers, founders, artists, authors, and culture-makersāand sometimes go soloāto pull practical insights from real careers, real pivots, and real behind-the-scenes moments.
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49. Voice Notes: Doors, Deepfakes, and the Algorithm I Built
Three things I canāt stop thinking about this week: the Obama Presidential Center, an AI thriller that called this moment years early, and why Meta ā of all companies ā is the one giving me life right now.
48. Voice Notes: Three Yeses and a Disappointment
This week kept circling the same idea: the difference between real intellectual curiosity and the performance of it. I get into the new Curiosity Shop podcast with BrenĆ© Brown and Adam Grant and why I look forward to it every Thursday; the tradwife thriller Yesteryear that half the internet seems to have misread; season two of The Four Seasons on Netflix and the kind of grief itās brave enough to be honest about; and yes, my growing disappointment with Gwyneth Paltrow. Four things that felt unrelated when I started talking, and turned out to be the same conversation.
44. Voice Notes: Rewriting the Script - Taylor Swift, Winter Olympics, and Bad Bunny
Taylor Swift broke her own pattern, Olympic athletes navigated representing a divided country, and Bad Bunny forced America to confront a 70-year-old conversation about Puerto Rico. This week is about rewriting the scriptāwhether it's your own narrative, a national identity, or a story we've been telling wrong for decades. When you're confident in your vision, you can change the plan mid-stream and create with what you're given, not what you wish you had.
43. Voice Notes: Things That Matter - Catherine O'Hara, Mattering, and the Roseberrys
This week I'm thinking about Catherine O'Hara, a conversation on Oprah's podcast, and the Roseberry siblings. The unexpected through-line? Performance versus being performativeāand why some art sticks with us while everything else disappears.
42. Voice Notes: A Hard Week
This week felt especially heavy. In this episode, I share three moments from pop culture that helped me stay present and groundedānot to escape whatās happening, but to think about it more clearly. I reflect on Michelle Obamaās recent interview, what it means to use a platform with intention, and why even familiar comfort shows donāt always land the same way depending on the moment weāre experiencing.
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Three things I canāt stop thinking about this week: the Obama Presidential Center, an AI thriller that called this moment years early, and why Meta ā of all companies ā is the one giving me life right now.