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Andrew Evans

Andrew Evans

Magician, mentalist and founder of The Magic Patio, a secret magic speakeasy in San Francisco; former design lead at IDEO and Nike.

Sep 23, 2026

12:48
That's what allows you to find the areas to play.
12:50
Yeah, absolutely.
12:51
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.
13:04
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.
13:11
Let's choose which ones we're going to focus on for the second half of this project.
13:15
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.
13:29
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.

37 MINS LATER

50:19
Yeah, yeah.

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