Maria Popova

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931 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 22 Jun

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman · Maria Popova · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

And overnight, so-called democracy came and with it came advertising.

And I, as a child, thought, wait a minute, this is the same message.

It's just selling a different ideology.

So I grew up and wanted to learn how to use propaganda.

I was just stubborn always, I guess.

I mean, looking back, I think I've realized that every time I've been told these are the options on the table, I haven't just said, oh, let me show you another option.

I've said, let me build you another table.

And so not by any kind of moral high ground, because I just didn't like what was available.

So I didn't like what they were circulating.

I said, actually, if you want to do something really creative...

take things from different disciplines, not your own, neuroscience and medieval painting and street art, and see what happens in the mind when these things converge.

So I said, let me send you three things I learned on my own, in my own kind of meaning foraging this week.

Every Friday I'll send it.

And then they were like, sure.

And then they started asking me to add, oh, can you add my dad?

Oh, can you add my girlfriend?

And I was like, guys, I have a full college course load and four jobs.

I can't administer an email.

And so I thought the most obvious thing to do would be to build a website.

There were no blogs then.

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