Steve Davis
S08E03 – Surviving For The Sake Of Yourself And Your Business
From Ukrainian lecture theatres under air raid sirens to a lawyer’s breakdown in a Sydney office, this episode asks whether you can keep learning, keep building, and keep going when the world feels like it’s coming apart at the seams.…
S08E02 – Marketing vs Spam: An Arms Race Of Idiocy
When an FBI behavioral specialist says you can win trust before you speak a word, and AI spam bots try to do the same thing with a $10 Starbucks voucher, you start to see just how wide that gap has…
S08E01 – Will You Have Fries With Your AI?
From a 19th century Russian novelist’s disarming preface to a 1985 fast food fumble, this episode asks one question that matters more than ever: are you being clever, or are you actually being useful? Mikhail Lermontov wrote a preface designed…
The Ghost in the Bottle: Why Your Best Prospects Might Be Hitting a Dead End
We often say you can’t read the label from inside the bottle. Today, I had to take my own advice. While interrogating our own analytics, I found something startling. Our most “engaging” content, the piece people were spending minutes reading,…
Why You Can’t Read the Label from Inside the Bottle
There’s an old saying in marketing: “It’s impossible to read the label when you’re sitting inside the bottle.” As a business owner, you are too close to your own work. You know the nuances, the history, and the effort. But…
What’s It Like to Be One of Your Customers? The Theory of Mind That Changes Everything
Here’s what my electrician never wondered: What’s it like to be one of my customers? He never imagined the anxiety of trusting someone with three thousand dollars. The frustration of rearranging schedules around his promises. The cascading disruption when he…
If You Wouldn’t Drink Recycled Sewage, Why Would You Use Bad AI Online? The Water Fountain Problem
Picture this scene. Office workers gather around the water fountain. Filling their cups. Drinking deeply. Walking to the bathroom. Everything they consume and expel cycles back through the same closed system. Filtered. Recycled. Round and round. Nothing fresh enters. That’s…
S07E09 – Emergence: Why You Do The Things You Do
Your mind works like water flowing through channels in a stream, which explains why sometimes the hardest marketing challenges need the simplest solutions. Paul Taylor shows us why hardiness beats resilience every time, through four characteristics that separate the business…
S07E08 – May The Life Forces Be With You
From minimum chips and onstage kisses to the biological drivers that make us click buy, we explore why fond memories boost productivity while rage baiting destroys it, and why Drew Eric Whitman’s eight life forces might be the marketing framework…
S07E07 – Do You Solve Problems Fast Or Slow?
From mathematician David Bessis’s meditation on mathematical intuition to Edward de Bono’s 1982 promise of simple computing, we explore why your business problems might need slower thinking than your instincts allow. Mathematician David Bessis claims we need system three thinking,…