HeyJaredInvent
Invent is a podcast about how to make things that don't exist yet.Hosted by Tara Lemméy—inventor, entrepreneur, and CEO of LENS—each episode explores the real patterns behind breakthrough innovation. Not theories. Not frameworks.
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How to Invent 4 Million Jobs (opens the original)
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A man sits down at a desk in Washington with no staff, no system, and no plan. He has a phone, and until spring to put four million people to work. He starts making calls. Harry Hopkins, the Civil Works Administration, and how four million jobs got built inside government with a telephone and a list of governors.
How to Eat Plastic (opens the original)
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We made a material so good at lasting that nothing alive could eat it. That was the design. We wanted it. We got it. Then, in a puddle outside a recycling plant in Japan, something ate it anyway. I've watched plastic wash up on three shorelines — Lima, San Francisco, the Great Barrier Reef — and every time I thought the same thing everybody thinks. That's permanent now. That's just the world we made. I was wrong, and not about the plastic. In 2016 two scientists in Japan didn't ask how to build
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