About this episode

Douglas Katz discusses his journey as a veteran and inventor, focusing on innovative kitchen knife design.

What if the kitchen knife you have used your whole life was designed for a fight, not for cooking? Douglas Katz thinks we can do better. "If you designed a knife for a robot, it wouldn't look like the linear knife that we have today," he says, and that single reframe sits at the heart of this episode. Douglas is a West Point graduate, a disabled US Army veteran and a lifelong inventor who tells his story in three acts. From the leadership lab of the military, through a long and often grim cha...

People in this episode

Host: Peter Marcus Bach

Guest: Douglas Katz

Topics covered

• kitchen design
• military leadership
• innovation
• veteran experiences
• product design

Keywords

• kitchen knife
• innovation
• veteran
• military
• design

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: West Point, US Army

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