In this episode of The EBD Show, Steve Corney reads Chapter 1: Kitchen Sink Syndrome from The Enough Bucket.

Kitchen Sink Syndrome is what happens when a simple brief — “help new starters find the bathroom and log into their computer” — turns into a 47-module epic with drag-and-drops, branching scenarios, and a Vyond animation no one asked for .

It’s the purest symptom of Enough Bucket Dysmorphia: you care about the learner, you know how to build every feature, so you do them all at once. The result? Flip cards, accordions, variables, JavaScript — a course so bloated it needs a sitemap and a mascot .

Steve shares the signs, the symptoms, and even his own epic fail — proving that just because you can build it doesn’t mean anyone wants to learn it.

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In this episode of The EBD Show, Steve Corney explores the EBD Severity Assessment and how Enough Bucket Dysmorphia creeps beyond learning design and into everyday life. From rating just how far gone you are, to spotting EBD in the wild, this chapter shows that none of us are immune. Laugh at the symptoms, recognise the signs, and keep the conversation going on LinkedIn with #EBD.

Welcome to the first episode of The EBD Show, the read-along companion to The Enough Bucket: A Field Guide for Learning Designers Suffering from Enough Bucket Dysmorphia.

In this episode, Steve Corney kicks things off with the Prologue, unpacking what EBD is, why every learning designer suffers from it, and why it all comes from good intentions. Being a learning designer makes you weird, and this show celebrates that. Join the conversation on LinkedIn using #EBD.