Am Sagarwala • Just Add Salt • 2019

Just Add Salt

• Proprietor for 16 years
• Instructing for 7 years
• Design + Dev + Entrepreneur
• Manager of Industry Relations
  Master of Digital Media @ RU

Spicing up history

Salt as currency

Earning your worth

Salt & Cryptography

What
could you Accomplish
if you had your weight
in salt?

Defaults

• Helpful when time is not on your side
• A jumping point to build upon
• What if you replaced salt with another default?

In what situation(s) do you default
to a certain reaction, tool, or approach?
What if you did something else?

The Remix is everything

A professional swimmer

once met a rocket designer

The result...

Exercise

1. Think of a job / profession / task.
2. Stand up when you've got one.
3. Go to the closest person that also stood up.
4. Share with each other.
5. What could be done with those 2 skill sets?
6. Come up with 2 or more resulting jobs.

People make people

Diversity

McKinsey & Co, 2018

Ethnic diversity at the C-suite improves chances of profitability by

33%

Harvard Business Review, 2016

Bringing one woman into a C-suite position results in a profitability increase of

15%

Defer the money.

Profitability is a result of productivity and innovation

Haters make great changemakers

Microaggressions

The Formula

1. Find a problem
2. Consider the end-user
3. Frame solutions from their perspective
4. Prototype
5. Get feedback
6. Iterate

Improv

Rules:

1. Say "yes, and..."
2. There are no mistakes
3. Help each other
4. You can always pass

it's not what it seems

1. Find any object.
2. Use it, but not as what it actually is.
3. Act out, using the object without stating what it has become.
4. Your peers guess what the object is.

Foreign Film Dub

2 contestants act a film in the given language, with the others translating.

Old Job/New Job

 Contestants must incorporate aspects of a previous job into their current one.