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Welcome, innovator. Your Weekly Digest: Creative Applications Brain Food Friends of TheTechMargin New From TheTechMargin The Creative Dot Goes for a Walk — Art, Imagination, and the Walkabout Within Stepping Out Into There's a moment before every creative act when you stand at the edge of the unknown. Pen in hand, mind full of possibilities. I've spent most of my life drawing lines, and I've come to understand that this first mark is never really about art. It's about courage. The courage to...

Welcome, innovator. Your Weekly Digest: Creative Applications Brain Food AI Safety Bites Friends of TheTechMargin New From TheTechMargin The Alchemical Artist: How Looking Within Transforms Everything When you dare to excavate your inner world, you don't just change your art—you change your life. The canvas doesn't lie. Neither does the blank page, the empty stage, or the silent studio. They reflect exactly what lives inside you—your fears, longings, unexamined assumptions, and wild, untamed...

Welcome, innovator. Your Weekly Digest: Creative Applications Brain Food AI Safety Bites Friends of TheTechMargin New From TheTechMargin With Childlike Wonder Growing up in the 1980s meant endless summer days of unstructured wandering—time unfolded within lazy days filled with emergent possibility. Back then, there was freedom to roam, to get lost, and to discover small worlds inside big ones. One particular memory has stayed with me, vivid and unresolved. I was eight or nine, ambling through...

Welcome, innovator. Your Weekly Digest: Creative Applications AI Safety Bites Friends of TheTechMargin New From TheTechMargin Being Open to Keeping Your Mind Open I am a creator, an artist—I love making things. Not long ago, I developed a very structured approach to creating a painting. It was a process honed through repetition and refinement, gradually building complex compositions of coastal rock formations. These paintings grew in complexity and surreal beauty. But over time, something...

Welcome, innovator. Your Weekly Digest: Brain Food Creative Applications AI Safety Bites Friends of TheTechMargin New From TheTechMargin Custom Love. The IKEA Effect is a cognitive bias where people place a disproportionately high value on products they help create themselves. Named after the Swedish furniture giant whose customers assemble their purchases, researchers Michael Norton, Daniel Mochon, and Dan Ariely first identified this psychological phenomenon. Their studies found that people...

Welcome, innovator. Your Weekly Digest: Brain Food Creative Applications AI Safety Bites Friends of TheTechMargin New From TheTechMargin Brain Food On Creative Blocks & The Assault of Butterflies Why do the best ideas feel the most dangerous? You know the moment. Mid-pitch, stomach clenched, defending instead of explaining. Or hovering over "publish" while that voice whispers: "Do you really have the authority to hold this outsider opinion?" We've been sold a story about creative blocks. Most...

Welcome, innovator. Your Weekly Digest: Brain Food Creative Applications AI Safety Bites Friends of TheTechMargin New From TheTechMargin Brain Food Maintenance Tips for Entrepreneurs As an entrepreneur, you also have ambition, ideas, passion, and limited time for a to-do list that never seems to diminish. If your superpower is making time stand still, the elusive balance between duty and life is attainable; otherwise, you are human, and reading another article about why you need balance will...

Welcome, innovator. Your Weekly Digest: Brain Food Creative Applications AI Safety Bites Friends of TheTechMargin New From TheTechMargin Brain Food The Ikea Effect: Labor, Love, and Valuation AI and the Power of Personalization I forget that not everyone wants to customize everything because, as long as I can remember, that is precisely what I have done. From changing the browser to a non-default option on my computers and devices to changing the color, font, and sounds of any app or piece of...

Welcome, innovator. Your Weekly Digest: Brain Food Creative Applications AI Safety Bites Friends of TheTechMargin New From TheTechMargin Brain Food AI-Brainstorming And Design School Basics Why Brainstorming Matters Now The convergence of AI tools, remote collaboration platforms, and traditional creative methods demands a fresh approach to ideation. AI changes the landscape of how we work; we must adapt and leverage AI meaningfully. Adaptability will make you feel more resilient and ready to...

Welcome, innovator. Your Weekly Digest: Brain Food Creative Applications AI Safety Bites Friends of TheTechMargin New From TheTechMargin Brain Food Choosing Your Guides (And Becoming One) Magic happens when you see a person realize their potential. I was fortunate to begin my mentoring journey some years ago when my kids were small and their elementary school had a program that needed volunteers to teach in the morning before the school day began. My friend Amanda and I would use Scratch...