Killer Innovations with Phil McKinney - A Show About Ideas Creativity And Innovation Podcast
1) CES 2026: Battle of the AI Robots
This week, I'm in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the annual Consumer Electronics Show 2026. If you've been following me for long, you know I do this every year. This is 20-plus years I've been coming to the C...Show More
2) Thinking 101: A Pause, A Reflection, And What Might Come Next
Twenty-one years. That's how long I've been doing this. Producing content. Showing up. Week after week, with only a handful of exceptions—most of them involving hospitals and cardiac surgeons, but th...Show More
3) Mental Models — Your Thinking Toolkit
Before the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986, NASA management officially estimated the probability of catastrophic failure at one in one hundred thousand. That's about the same odds as getting...Show More
4) Numerical Thinking: How to Find the Truth When Numbers Lie
Quick—which is more dangerous: the thing that kills 50,000 Americans every year, or the thing that kills 50? Your brain says the first one, obviously. The data says you're dead wrong. Heart disease k...Show More
5) The Clock is Screaming (And My Grandson is Listening)
I stepped out of the shower in March and my chest split open. Not a metaphor. The surgical incision from my cardiac device procedure just… opened. Blood and fluid everywhere. Three bath towels to sto...Show More
6) Second-Order Thinking: How to Stop Your Decisions From Creating Bigger Problems
In August 2025, Polish researchers tested something nobody had thought to check: what happens to doctors' skills after they rely on AI assistance? The AI worked perfectly—catching problems during colo...Show More
Second-Order Thinking: How to Stop Your Decisions From Creating Bigger Problems
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7) How To Make Better Decisions When Nothing Is Certain
You're frozen. The deadline's approaching. You don't have all the data. Everyone wants certainty. You can't give it. Sound familiar? Maybe it's a hiring decision with three qualified candidates and r...Show More
8) You Think in Analogies Every Day (And You’re Doing It Wrong)
Try to go through a day without using an analogy. I guarantee you'll fail within an hour. Your morning coffee tastes like yesterday's batch. Traffic is moving like molasses. Your boss sounds like a br...Show More
9) How To Master Causal Thinking
$37 billion. That's how much gets wasted annually on marketing budgets because of poor attribution and misunderstanding of what actually drives results. Companies' credit campaigns that didn't work. T...Show More
10) How To Improve Your Logical Reasoning Skills
You see a headline: “Study Shows Coffee Drinkers Live Longer.” You share it in 3 seconds flat. But here's what just happened—you confused correlation with causation, inductive observation ...Show More