ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
The Drafts is a space for thoughtful reflection, creative exploration, and real-world insights. Each episode is a behind-the-scenes look at ideas in progress—covering design, UX, entrepreneurship, and the everyday moments that shape the way we think and work. Host Diya shares reflections, experiments, and lessons learned while navigating projects, life, and the messy middle of creation. Whether you’re building products, shaping experiences, or just curious about how ideas evolve, The Drafts offers clarity, perspective, and a little company along the way.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 10 days
Average audio length:
23 minutes
English
United States
20 episodes
since Jan. 8, 2026
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Tesla, Dyson, Apple, and the gamble every tastemaker makes. Why the Tesla Cybertruck keeps losing sales while Tesla's own touchscreen dashboard became the industry standard. Why Dyson's bladeless fan never changed how anyone thinks about a fan, while the Dyson Airwrap built an entirely new category…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Why your For You Page stopped surprising you, and what recommendation algorithms are actually optimising for.
Serendipity is not something recommendation systems stumble into. It is a measurable objective that researchers have been engineering, tuning, and writing algorithms for over close to twent…
What happens when you work hard, produce genuinely good things, and feel almost none of it?
This episode is about the gap between achievement and the experience of achievement - why obligation-mode work produces real results that somehow never feel like yours, how that pattern forms, and what it co…
The AI boom, Carlota Perez, and what happens when the wrapper comes off. ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude are converging in capability while thousands of products are built on top of them and own none of the infrastructure underneath. Using economist Carlota Perez's framework for tech…
Paula has a line that comes up more than once in this conversation: I can't create at the pace of the algorithm. This episode is about what that actually means, and what it costs to protect your creativity when the platforms are designed to reward something else entirely.
In part two of this conver…
Most people online are doing one of two things: posting cryptically enough that no one can read them too clearly, or building a personal brand polished enough to sell. My guest Paula does neither. She posts as herself, specifically, legibly, nothing held back, and has for years.
In this episode, th…
After an accidental upgrade on one leg of a trip and a return to economy on the other, Diya runs an unplanned A/B test on herself and unpacks why the airport experience is not poorly designed at all. It is designed extremely well, just not for you.
This episode covers Tim Wu's concept of "calculate…
I left my job a month ago with one plan: do less. It's been one month. I have nine projects on the go. Nobody asked me to start any of them. This episode is about what happens when you finally get the freedom you've been craving and realise you have no idea what to do with it. I talk about how hust…
What happens when the person who taught you to see clearly asks you not to look at them?
This episode is about two creator-turned-founders who built massive audiences on expertise and education, then crossed into making products - and how differently they handled it when things went wrong. Linus Te…
Nothing on the Internet Lasts (And That's a Decision)
Have you ever said "my Instagram" or "my Twitter" without thinking twice?
In Episode 11 of The Drafts, Diya breaks down the uncomfortable truth about every social platform you have ever built your life inside: you were never …
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