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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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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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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…
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Climbing the Corporate Design Ladder
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Introducing strategic design in the enterprise organisation can be done by paying attention to the design ladder At the outset of our design practice in my current company, we had no executive sponsor for design, nor did the company have a grand vision for introducing design thinking. As many other…
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PAK vs KAP
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A New Approach to Organizational Transformation PAK versus KAP — Rethinking How We Learn and Lead Change I once had the privilege of being taught and mentored by Jerry Sternin, a legendary ethnographer and pioneer in the co-development space. Jerry championed the idea of harnessing the creative power of users…