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Decisions at the Fulcrum, 64 episodes.

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1

Bai the Way: From Delightful Samples to Decision Signals (Season Finale Part 2)

2

Bai the Way: From Category to Sensory Fulcrums (Season Finale Part 1)

3

But First, Water: Design Approaches and Audience-First Health Campaigns

4

A Province at the Edge: Independence and Defiance in Indonesia’s Westernmost Province Part 2

5

A Province at the Edge: Independence and Defiance in Indonesia’s Westernmost Province Part 1

6

Almost to 10,000: Fitbit and One More Walk Around the Block

7

One Rooftop at a Time: Bangladesh's Solar (Home) Systems, Local Environments, and Energy Access

8

Augmentation Streams: Hastings and the Cost of Every New Opportunity

9

Below Freezing, Above Simplifying: Kahtoola and the High Reliability of Traction

10

Artifacts of Interest: ICCU, Visible Culture, and Green Lights in Pocatello

11

Exit 284: Iowa 80 and the Servicescapes of Road Life

12

Pirates of the Carriage Fees: The 2025 Disney-YouTube TV Negotiations on the High Seas of Must Have Content

13

The Routine of Chili Crisp: Social Practice Beyond Another Peppery Condiment

14

Keep the Phone: Fairphone and the Diffusion of Repairable Design

15

Postwar Justice and the Asia-Pacific War: Jenny Chan on Unit 731, Public Memory, and the Aftermath of World War II in Asia

16

The Bottle is Filled with Possibility: Morphological Analysis and Sweden's EPR Case

17

Warm Welcomes and Stocked Shelves: Ukrop’s, WinCo, H-E-B, and the Distinction Between Affiliative and Team Approaches

18

Deepwater Horizon, Part 2: Sensemaking in Industrial and Communicative Crises

19

Deepwater Horizon, Part 1: A Cosmology Episode at Macondo Well and The Boundaries of Plausibility

20

Between Robusta Beans and Phin Routines: Vietnamese Coffee, Starbucks, and Competence in Cultural Translation

21

Not Hungry? Try Vital Pursuit: Nestlé and the Corporate Sensegiving of GLP-1 Eating

22

The Best Gluten-Free Cookie I Ever Tasted: Carolyn Haeler on Elevating Gluten-Free Cookies

23

A Slice Refreshed, and Refreshed Once More: The Ongoing Epic of a Soda Perpetually Reinterpreted for New Coolers

24

The Guest is Always The Guest: Vance Morris on Disney, Experiences, and Decision-Making

25

Frictionless Zooming In: Remote Meetings, From a Train Car to Grid View

26

How Conversation Truly Improves Decision-Making: A Discussion with Jake McKee

27

The Peanut Butter is Smoother. Almost too Smooth: Marketing Placebo and the Risk of Reformulation

28

Desserts With(out) Vigilance: How “Just a Small Spill” Became a Crisis.

29

Upstream Decisions, Downstream Composure: Mercadona’s Total Quality as Grocery Infrastructure

30

Shelf Stable Competence: Vega's perseverance in a category that keeps overpromising

31

Deliberately Quartered: How Maryland Learns to Live with Its History

32

The Rise of Invisible Risk: From Nylon to Supply Chain Materials (Part 2 1918-2020s)

33

One Crate at a Time: How the Tuesday Forecast is a Wager for Produce Visibility

34

Many Maps, One Seabed Floor: Conflict Mapping Seabed Mining near Nauru

35

Empire by Process: From the Brandywine to Industrial Calamity (Part 1: 1799-1918)

36

Soil to Oil: Vertical Integration and the Audacity of Higher Expectations (Part 2 - CBDecisions)

37

Section 7606: Hemp in University Labs, CBD Advantages in Pediatric Care (Part 1)

38

Model Behavior ≠ Meteorological Behavior: What “Weird Storms” Teach About Predictive Forecasting

39

The Alarms were Sounding: WaMu Through the HRO Lens

40

The Robot Makes the Latte: Task Completion, Guacamole, and a Kiosk at Changi Airport

41

Trading Simplification for Reliability: MEA, Active-Monitoring, and HRO Mindsets

42

Kernels of Sweet Scarcity: Candy Corn and Manufacturing Demand

43

Safe for the Aisle: Health Literacy, Reading the Labels, and Breathing Easier

44

A Universe One Step Beyond Logic: When Mystery Demands Restraint in an era of excess

45

Letting the Unruly Culture Fizz: Ferments, Flavor Ladders, and Function of Kombucha

46

Rooted Deep or Branching Out: RC Cola to the Moon(pie), Manila, and Back

47

Behind Door Number One: Not What You Expected?

48

A Satisficing Guarantee: How the World’s Largest Hotel Brand was Built by Being ‘Good Enough’

49

Beyond the Daily Catch: How Modeling Decisions Spotlighted Side Dishes in the Profit Net

50

Rune: How Pairing becomes Prevalent

51

Grape Decisions (at the Fulcrum)!

52

Water You Doing, Kansas?: How I-70 and the Ogallala Aquifer Went from Awkward Problems to Everyone’s Responsibility

53

Chunk After Chunk: The Ice Cream Decree

54

When The Payment Chimes In: From Magnetic Stripes to Machine Learning in 3 Seconds or Less

55

From Bytes to Zero: The Test-Learn-Scale Feedback of Flavor Frameworks

56

Taste Prototypes and Category Confusion: When Promising Everything Gives Us a Nothing Burger (or Soda)

57

Auto-mation: A System named Efficiency Omits Judgment and Precision

58

Real Fact 1994: You Still Remember What Kiwi Strawberry Smells Like

59

La Croix or How the Aesthetic of Flavor Signaled Good Taste

60

Set to High, Forgot to Vent: When You Misunderstand Success as Longevity

61

Detours and Off-Ramps: Diverging Pathways to the Same Future

62

Driving the Narrative: Bronco, Ultium, and the Stories We Build

63

Trust the Crust: Garlicky, Buttery, and Surprisingly Believable

64

A Slice of Redemption: From Cardboard to Craving