The EBD Show is the read-along companion to The Enough Bucket: A Field Guide for Learning Designers Suffering from Enough Bucket Dysmorphia.
Hosted by Steve Corney — speaker, facilitator and long-time learning designer — this show holds up a mirror to the strange habits of our industry. Each episode features a reading from the book alongside extra thoughts and provocations.
So what is Enough Bucket Dysmorphia? It is that urge to add “just one more slide” at 2am. It is cramming in shiny features no one asked for. It is burying simple answers under mountains of branching scenarios and variable-driven tricks. And the kicker is that it all comes from good intentions. We want learners to have everything, all the time. That is what makes us caring, and also what makes us weird.
This podcast is part confession, part survival guide, and part group therapy for learning designers everywhere. Laugh at the ridiculous things we do, recognise yourself in the villains and the symptoms, and join the conversation on LinkedIn with #EBD.
You are not broken. You have just got EBD. And you have found your people.
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The EBD Show is the read-along companion to The Enough Bucket: A Field Guide for Learning Designers Suffering from Enough Bucket Dysmorphia.
Hosted by Steve Corney — speaker, facilitator and long-time learning designer — this show holds up a mirror to the strange habits of our industry. Each episode features a reading from the book alongside extra thoughts and provocations.
So what is Enough Bucket Dysmorphia? It is that urge to add “just one more slide” at 2am. It is cramming in shiny features no one asked for. It is burying simple answers under mountains of branching scenarios and variable-driven tricks. And the kicker is that it all comes from good intentions. We want learners to have everything, all the time. That is what makes us caring, and also what makes us weird.
This podcast is part confession, part survival guide, and part group therapy for learning designers everywhere. Laugh at the ridiculous things we do, recognise yourself in the villains and the symptoms, and join the conversation on LinkedIn with #EBD.
You are not broken. You have just got EBD. And you have found your people.
Your LMS has become Alcatraz and your learners are doing hard time for clicking too fast.
In this episode we read along with Chapter 9 and unpack how “tracking everything” + “forcing everything” turns a course into a digital prison. Timers. Locked slides. Pop-ups that scream “NO SKIPPING.” It’s the perfect storm of EBD.
Steve also shares his own epic failure where he built a course so controlled it basically needed a parole board.
If your progress bar is running the show, this one will hurt… and fix you.
One Big Thing: If your course feels like surveillance, no one’s learning.
Two Small Things: Stop forcing, start trusting. And remove one barrier today.
The EBD Show
The EBD Show is the read-along companion to The Enough Bucket: A Field Guide for Learning Designers Suffering from Enough Bucket Dysmorphia.
Hosted by Steve Corney — speaker, facilitator and long-time learning designer — this show holds up a mirror to the strange habits of our industry. Each episode features a reading from the book alongside extra thoughts and provocations.
So what is Enough Bucket Dysmorphia? It is that urge to add “just one more slide” at 2am. It is cramming in shiny features no one asked for. It is burying simple answers under mountains of branching scenarios and variable-driven tricks. And the kicker is that it all comes from good intentions. We want learners to have everything, all the time. That is what makes us caring, and also what makes us weird.
This podcast is part confession, part survival guide, and part group therapy for learning designers everywhere. Laugh at the ridiculous things we do, recognise yourself in the villains and the symptoms, and join the conversation on LinkedIn with #EBD.
You are not broken. You have just got EBD. And you have found your people.
