Critical Business Salons
Five years of CBS sessions — prompts, frameworks, and salon notes.
127 sessions
House rules — to make this a robust container
- Approach each other with good faith
- Listen first
- Inquire without a script
- Embrace nuance and discernment
- Communicate with generosity
- Practice curiosity and self-responsibility
- Think twice before bringing outside expert advice (a book, a talk) into this space
An invitation to join CBS
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CBS 2020/CBS
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CBS 2021/1 CBS January/CBS 1 _ Session 1
what are the places where you’re creative?
CBS 2021/1 CBS January/CBS 1 _ Session 2
what does a collaboration feel like?
CBS 2021/1 CBS January/CBS 1 _ Session 3
Does creativity come before or after a plan (/tool)? or how would you plan creativity?
CBS 2021/1 CBS January/CBS 1 _ Session 4
CBS 2021/2 CBS February/CBS 2 _ Session 1
what is an artifact/ you invented?
CBS 2021/2 CBS February/CBS 2 _ Session 2
Communicate 2020, without words. You can use gestures, dance, objects, moving yourself or moving the camera.
CBS 2021/2 CBS February/CBS 2 _ Session 3
Share something you know; Is knowing it objective, subjective or intersubjective (exist in a relationship)?
CBS 2021/2 CBS February/CBS 2 _ Session 4
How do you teach what we don’t know?
CBS 2021/3 CBS March/CBS 3 _ Session 1
What is the best place to ask a question?
CBS 2021/3 CBS March/CBS 3 _ Session 2
How do you call for help? Feel free to draw, act, mime.
CBS 2021/3 CBS March/CBS 3 _ Session 3
What is between self expression and self consumption? or how to decide what goes with what when we follow our story?
CBS 2021/3 CBS March/CBS 3 _ Session 4
What is alive in your/one’s practice?
CBS 2021/4 CBS April/CBS 4 _ Session 1
Who controls time?
CBS 2021/4 CBS April/CBS 4 _ Session 2
Where do you look for scarcity?
CBS 2021/4 CBS April/CBS 4 _ Session 3
What is the edge of the self?
CBS 2021/4 CBS April/CBS 4 _ Session 4
How many lives are you living?
CBS 2021/5 CBS May/CBS 5 _ Session 1
What makes you?
CBS 2021/5 CBS May/CBS 5 _ Session 2
Is knowledge whole?
CBS 2021/5 CBS May/CBS 5 _ Session 3
What, or who decides value?
CBS 2021/5 CBS May/CBS 5 _ Session 4
Do ideas connect?
CBS 2021/6 CBS June/CBS 6 _ Session 1
Where to start optimizing?
CBS 2021/6 CBS June/CBS 6 _ Session 2
Does association lead to utility or value?
CBS 2021/6 CBS June/CBS 6 _ Session 3
What is the delta between utility and value?
CBS 2021/6 CBS June/CBS 6 _ Session 4
How do you decide what to leave out?
CBS 2021/7 CBS July/CBS 7 _ Session 1
What is the order of logic?
CBS 2021/7 CBS July/CBS 7 _ Session 2
How many steps exist between known and unknown?
CBS 2021/7 CBS July/CBS 7 _ Session 3
What benefits from efficiency?
CBS 2021/7 CBS July/CBS 7 _ Session 4
How do you recognize knowledge?
CBS 2021/8 CBS August/CBS 8 _ Session 1
What is a clear signal?
CBS 2021/8 CBS August/CBS 8 _ Session 2
How to make science better?
CBS 2021/8 CBS August/CBS 8 _ Session 3
What holds ideas together?
CBS 2021/8 CBS August/CBS 8 _ Session 4
CBS 2021/9 CBS September/CBS 9 _ Session 1
Who choreographs?
CBS 2021/9 CBS September/CBS 9 _ Session 2
Who do we work for?
CBS 2021/9 CBS September/CBS 9 _ Session 3
Who holds the camera?
CBS 2021/9 CBS September/CBS 9 _ Session 4
CBS 2021/10 CBS Oct/CBS 10 _ Session 1
What is the difference between planning and resilience?
CBS 2021/10 CBS Oct/CBS 10 _ Session 2
How do we switch gravities?
CBS 2021/10 CBS Oct/CBS 10 _ Session 3
Which way is north?
CBS 2021/10 CBS Oct/CBS 10 _ Session 4
CBS 2021/11 CBS November/CBS 11 _ Session 1
CBS 2021/11 CBS November/CBS 11 _ Session 2
How much creativity can you afford?
CBS 2021/11 CBS November/CBS 11 _ Session 3
What is the purpose of knowledge?
CBS 2021/11 CBS November/CBS 11 _ Session 4
Who is the most successful person you ever met?
CBS 2021/12 CBS December/CBS 12 _ Session 1
What is the price of clarity?
CBS 2021/12 CBS December/CBS 12 _ Session 2
What game are you in?
CBS 2021/12 CBS December/CBS 12 _ Session 3
How to expect nothing specific?
CBS 2021/12 CBS December/CBS 12 _ Session 4
What stops movement?
CBS 2022/1 CBS Jan/CBS 1 _ Session 1
How do you draw a frame?
CBS 2022/1 CBS Jan/CBS 1 _ Session 2
What is the shape of utility?
CBS 2022/1 CBS Jan/CBS 1 _ Session 3
Who writes the curriculum?
CBS 2022/1 CBS Jan/CBS 1 _ Session 4
What do you expect from value?
CBS 2022/2 CBS February/CBS 2 _ Session 1
What stage are you looking for?
CBS 2022/2 CBS February/CBS 2 _ Session 2
Who do you practice with?
CBS 2022/2 CBS February/CBS 2 _ Session 3
What are you promoting?
CBS 2022/2 CBS February/CBS 2 _ Session 4
What holds conversations?
CBS 2022/3 CBS March/CBS 3 _ Session 1
What gets in the way of thinking?
CBS 2022/3 CBS March/CBS 3 _ Session 2
Who pretends to understand you?
CBS 2022/3 CBS March/CBS 3 _ Session 3
When does collaboration start?
CBS 2022/3 CBS March/CBS 3 _ Session 4
What happens when it is all done?
CBS 2022/3 CBS March/Prompt Workshop, Week 4
CBS 2022/3 CBS March/Prompt Workshop, Week 5
CBS 2022/3 CBS March/Prompt Workshop, Week 6
CBS 2022/3 CBS March/Prompt Workshop, Week 7
Workshop, Week 7
CBS 2022/3 CBS March/Prompt Workshop, Week 8
CBS 2022/3 CBS March/Prompt Workshop, Week 9
CBS 2022/3 CBS March/Prompt Workshop, Week 10
CBS 2022/CBS 4 April/CBS 4 _ Session 1
Does meaning grow with time?
CBS 2022/CBS 4 April/CBS 4 _ Session 2
Where do stories live?
CBS 2022/CBS 4 April/CBS 4 _ Session 3
Are experiences generative?
CBS 2022/CBS 4 April/CBS 4 _ Session 4
What is the role of precision?
CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 01
What is the shape of belonging?
CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 02
How does belonging change over time?
CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 03
How do you belong with people you have not met yet?
CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 04
What is the cost of planning?
CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 05
How to invite people?
CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 06
What is the language of belonging?
CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 07
What is the point of thinking about value?
CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 08
How to reflect?
CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 09
Where does meaning belong?
CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 10
How to experiment with belonging?
CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 11
How to navigate places?
CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 12
What comes after belonging?
CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 13
What is belonging?
CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 01
What makes a place?
CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 02
What is the value of a place we have not been to yet?
CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 03
Who are you, where you are?
CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 04
When does one place end and a new one start?
CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 05
Where does noticing start?
CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 06
What happens over time?
CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 07
What is the value of the places we have been to?
CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 08
How does a place start?
CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 09
Where does value form?
CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 10
What is care?
CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 11
How do you communicate value?
CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 12
What's the direction of things?
CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 13
Where is value shared?
CBS 2025/1 Jan/Post Efficiency World, Week 1
What is the slowest thing you do?
CBS 2025/1 Jan/Post Efficiency World, Week 2
What gets better with efficiency?
CBS 2025/1 Jan/Post Efficiency World, Week 3
How much is enough?
CBS 2025/1 Jan/Post Efficiency World, Week 4
What is the value of something that has not happened yet?
CBS 2025/2 Feb/Attention Economies, Week 1
CBS 2025/2 Feb/Attention Economies, Week 2
Who pays for attention?
CBS 2025/2 Feb/Attention Economies, Week 3
Who gets in the way of attention?
CBS 2025/2 Feb/Attention Economies, Week 4
How do you offer attention?
CBS 2025/3 March/Embodied Creativity, Week 1
CBS 2025/3 March/Embodied Creativity, Week 2
Where does value start, and where does it end up?
CBS 2025/3 March/Embodied Creativity, Week 3
What is the point of collecting?
CBS 2025/3 March/Embodied Creativity, Week 4
Where do ideas live?
CBS 2026/CBS 2026, 1.26.26
CBS 2026/CBS 2026_ Welcome
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CBS_ One Off_ Heavy-lifting Ideas
How heavy is a good idea?
Course Outline
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Critical Business/CBS 2/CBS 2_ Introductions
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Critical Business/CBS 2/What is the Role of Speculative Design and Forecasting When Living Through Speculative Times_
Critical Business/What Does Studio Culture Mean Without a Studio_
Critical Business Salons/CBS1/CBS 1_ Prep Work
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Critical Business Salons/CBS for Thirdness
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Critical Business Salons (1)
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Critical Business Salons
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D Crit Meta Notes
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