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Why Humankind Made Me Step Away from the News
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—and how I’m doing a 30-day news detox A few years ago, I read Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman. It’s one of those books that doesn’t just add knowledge — it subtly rearranges how you see the world. At its core, Humankind challenges one of the most deeply…
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Travel With Charlie, Reimagined
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On using AI to express what words struggle to hold Over the past year, I’ve been quietly contemplating and experimenting with how AI can help me express something I’ve always found difficult to fully capture with words alone: subtle emotion, atmosphere, and lived experience. Not emotion in a sentimental sense—but…
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Using AI for Concept visualisation
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From Clay to Motion: Learning to Control AI Video with Nano Banana and VEO The photos of the original sculpture of “the wandering spirit” as I made as a remark for my transforming hiking experiences in my Art retreat in Frigiliana The scuplture from Nano Banana modeled as a bronze…
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Drawing the World Back to Life: How a Sketch Taught AI to See
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about how designers and creatives can take back control in AI-driven image making by starting with something deeply familiar: drawing. Instead of prompting our way forward with increasingly complex text instructions, we can sketch. We can feed line drawings into image models and let…
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Taking creative control of the AI imaging
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Sketch-first, AI-second: how I used “visual assistance sketching” with Nana Banana to regain control in concept development The last few days I’ve been doing a small but telling concept development project for my wife’s creative studio in Copenhagen. We’ve talked for a while about adding a greenhouse in the courtyard…
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Square Life Stages Framework
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What if we’ve been celebrating the wrong milestones all along? Instead of centring our lives around decade birthdays — the 30s, 40s, 50s — what if we began celebrating the ages that actually feel like turning points? Square Numbers and the Shape of a Lived Life As a curious innovator…
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Leadership for the Complex and Chaotic present (DIS presentation link)
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From Engineering Logic to Situational Leadership The presentation linked above is one I recently gave to hundreds of business leaders with strong engineering and operational backgrounds. The audience spanned senior managers, technical leaders, and decision-makers responsible for navigating complexity in large organizations. What stood out in the feedback was not…
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Design Thinking Strategy
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Design Thinking Strategy – A Framework for Organisations Ready to Transform Design Thinking has been through cycles. Ten years ago it surged with momentum—high expectations, colourful post-its, and promises of user-centric transformation. Then came the pushback: “It’s hard to scale.” “It takes too long.” “It doesn’t fit our governance.” Many…
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The Decompression Zone: Self-Leadership in Times of Creative Destruction
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These months, many industries are shifting at a speed we haven’t seen in decades. Entire disciplines are disappearing one place and other reappearing elsewhere. New roles, new skills, new technologies, new demands. For some, this brings opportunity. For many others, it brings layoffs, restructurings, or the unexpected end of long…