On this episode of Brigadoon Radio, Kelsey Chittick and Marc Ross discuss learning from comedians on how to be a better communicator, the different comedy skill sets, how every comic is a good writer, using the Notes app, being an observer of the world, having emotion in your communications, connecting with an audience, finding original ideas, good writing is about pace, and why there is no future for men.
Brigadoon Radio | New politics together
On this episode of Brigadoon Radio, Benjamin Shobert and Marc Ross discuss the launch of TOGETHER and how America is getting ready for a decade of political innovation.
Ben is launching TOGETHER founded on the idea that your voice, your story, your community, and your frustrations with today’s American politics matter.
Curiosity drives creativity | Brigadoon Monthly Call
Brigadoon Monthly Call
Carlo Navato | Founder @ Haxted Estates
April 20 @ 2:00 - 2:45 pm ET
Carlo is the visionary founder of Haxted Estates, a multi-award-winning property developer who believes his success has come from being passionately curious.
He believes he has no special talents, with the exception of his ever-curious mindset. For him, curiosity leads to inspiration which leads to creativity which leads to you doing cool stuff.
Carlo has a passion for design, architecture, and craftsmanship. Determined to make inclusive, inspiring places for people to live, work and play, he loves to challenge convention and believes that inspiration can be found everywhere. A Chartered Surveyor by training, he is happiest with mavericks in wild places and is a passionate photographer, and lover of books, vinyl, his VW camper van, sport, and wine. He is a founding partner of the Do Lectures.
Watch Carlo in action with his talk = A call to arms for curiosity = here on Vimeo.
Brigadoon Monthly Call | Can a computer ever be a sommelier?
Recorded in February 2022, a Brigadoon Monthly Call with Joe Fattorini.
Joe is Managing Director + Behavioural Science Lead @ PixWine and known around the world as "Obi Wine Kenobi", the expert presenter on The Wine Show.
Between researching his MPhil on Food & Religion and teaching Structuralist Food Theory and Hotel Valuation Models, Joe wrote the world’s first textbook on selling and marketing wine in restaurants. A book still used in universities over 20 years later.
In 2016 he was a nominee for the Wine and Spirit Education Trust Outstanding Alumni Award. This is a new annual accolade to celebrate a WSET Diploma graduate who is notably contributing to the industry.
You can follow Joe on Instagram here.
Shownotes:
Obi Wine Kenobi runs Marathon du Médoc.
PixWine: Pix is the world's first wine discovery platform with a simple matchmaking mission: to pair people with bottles that bring them joy.
Wine choice is situational: "Middle-aged English businessmen, their palates apparently changed at Waterloo Station."
Stated preferences vs. Revealed preferences
Social capital is "the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively." In The Forms of Capital, Pierre Bourdieu distinguishes between three forms of capital: economic capital, cultural capital, and social capital.
James Bond has saved the world and beaten the bad buys because of his wine knowledge.
James Bond: The wine is quite excellent. Although for such a grand meal, I would have expected a claret.
Mr. Wint: But of course. Unfortunately, our cellar is poorly stocked with clarets.
James Bond: Mouton Rothschild IS a claret. And, I've smelled that aftershave before, and both times - I've smelled a rat.
-- Diamonds Are Forever
Read: Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference - Judea Pearl
"A lot of people aren't looking for the best wine; they are looking for the guaranteed not shit one."
Binge-watching Netflix for a living: How a Netflix tagger helps you discover new shows: The good, the bad, and the boring kids' stuff of metadata analysis for a streaming service. Toms Guide
The most magical place on Earth: Inside the great NBA bubble experiment. GQ - Taylor Rooks
What is mimetic theory? COV&R
Read: Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life - Luke Burgis
Explore vs. Exploit
How people decide what to buy lies in the 'messy middle' of the purchase journey Google
Google's new 'messy middle' — what's it all about? Nick Barthram
Monty Python: The upper-class twit of the year YouTube
Veblen good: Type of luxury good for which the demand for a good increases as the price increases, in apparent (but not actual) contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve. The higher prices of Veblen goods may make them desirable as a status symbol in conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure practices.
The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899) is a treatise of economics and sociology written by the Norwegian-American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen.
The 1855 Bordeaux Classification: The ranking system put in place by Napoleon III still influences today's market. Wine Spectator
Decanting the meteoric rise of Whispering Angel: Sacha Lichine teaches us all to embrace La Vie En Rosé. Gentleman's Journal
