Debbie Millman

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229 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2 Apr

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How to Be a Better Human · Chris Duffy | from Design Matters · 2 Apr 2026 podcast

And from what I found in my research, I believe that you double majored in philosophy and economics.

I also saw in another interview that you said that you were an English major.

So clarify for me.

What a cool professor.

Did people like en masse leave the room?

Now, you also wrote for the college newspaper Brown's Daily Herald, which you can still find some of your bylines online.

You had it even then.

At that point, what did you think you wanted to do professionally?

Well, I don't want to get into your teaching career just yet because I do want to talk about the cryptic ads that you saw pasted up around campus at Brown with headlines like interested in long form improvisation.

You were intrigued.

So what happened next?

Now, I read that while you were in Starlet and Sons, you pretended to be a talking dog, Satan on the moon, and an astronaut whose head is a foot.

Uh-huh.

Not things that just in hearing the description I would necessarily think as funny, but when did you first realize you were funny?

I took an improv class back in the early 90s in New York City.

And I was struck by the sense that comes over you after a time when you're all in it together, where it almost feels like you have a mind melt or a hive mind.

And it's magic.

Now we can talk a little bit about your teaching experience.

After you graduated college, you moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and began teaching fifth graders in an inner-city Boston elementary school.

Why?

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