
Andrew Evans
Magician, mentalist and founder of The Magic Patio, a secret magic speakeasy in San Francisco; former design lead at IDEO and Nike.
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Sep 23, 2026
The Magician's Guide to Blowing Your Colleagues' Minds – Magic Patio Founder Andrew Evans
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Andrew EvansGUEST
I mean, another example of that, this is from IDEO, but I was doing a decision meeting, which we would say like a mid-phase meeting where we've identified a bunch of opportunity areas based on our interviews with consumers, users, people, all that kind of stuff.

Andrew EvansGUEST
And then we usually say, great, here are five, well, I don't know, here are three to five opportunity areas that we think would be interesting for you as a company to explore.

Andrew EvansGUEST
Let's choose which ones we're going to focus on for the second half of this project.

Andrew EvansGUEST
It often, though, what ends up happening is the second you give execs a decision point, they're falling back into the exact same ways that they make decisions, which for a company like IDEO, which they hired to think in a different way, it's just counterintuitive.

Andrew EvansGUEST
It's not helpful, right? It's like they're making the same decisions they would have made before IDEO, but now with IDEO's money.
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