Quality and Innovation

[00:01:33] – (First Question) – Interesting ways to identify high quality 

[00:05:06] – The current problem with the way we think about the world 

[00:08:56] – How people think about their careers and college 

[00:11:21] – Uncertainty vs risk, and productive discomfort 

[00:19:08] – Cultivation of discomfort for an individual 

[00:24:05] – Successful innovation cultures 

[00:32:25] – Analyzing quality and restaurant bread 

[00:37:43] – The Slug idea 

[00:40:43] – His research project where he observed restaurants 

[00:45:44] – How do people mandate their own structure in the face of uncertainty 

[00:53:46] – How employees should approach this rent-to-buy hiring structure 

[00:57:17] – Example of someone who took advantage of uncertainty time 

[01:00:05] – Playful adults 

[01:03:10] – Other changes companies can make to their culture to be more innovative 

[01:08:19] – The difference between simplicity and complexity  

[01:11:12] – How he applies his thinking into several different ideas, like Cannabis 

[01:16:17] – Asking the right question 

[01:20:19] – Kindest thing anyone has done for Vaughn