Best of Design Matters: Lulu Miller
Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Best of Design Matters: Lulu Miller

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 17, 20261 hr 22 min

Lulu Miller is a Peabody Award–winning journalist, co-host of Radiolab, founder of the podcast Terrestrials, and author of the acclaimed book Why Fish Don’t Exist. She joins to discuss her career at the intersection of science, philosophy, and storytelling, inviting us to question how we understand the world and our place within it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This episode of Design Matters originally appeared in August of 2025. She finally looked at me and was just like, what are you doing here? Your questions aren't going to bring him back. I didn't have an answer.

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And I remember driving back like 14 hours to New York through this thunderstorm, just thinking like, I don't have an answer. I don't have the backbone. I don't have the like ethical compass to be doing this work.

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This microphone is too powerful and I have not grown up enough enough to hold it. And at that time I was just like, I want out, I should never do this. I'm messing with people's lives, I'm making people feel worse, I don't belong here. From the TED Audio Collective this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.

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