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.
In this episode of The EBD Show, Steve reads Chapter 3: Perfectionism in Disguise from The Enough Bucket.
Perfectionism in Disguise is the sneaky form of Enough Bucket Dysmorphia that pretends to be “quality control.” You tell yourself you’re polishing, refining, making it better — but really, you’re just stuck in endless tweaks and “just one more” revisions. The module doesn’t get sharper, it just gets slower, heavier, and further away from the learner’s needs.
This chapter exposes the signs and symptoms of hidden perfectionism, why it feels productive when it’s not, and how good intentions can end up sinking a project.
Join the conversation after the show on LinkedIn using #EBD — and share how perfectionism has shown up in your own learning design.
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.
