Fuck it. I create. — Getting Unstuck: Design Thinking for Power

Keep your plans in one place. Free account.

Participants bring something they feel stuck on and use design thinking, their senses, and each other to examine it from a new angle.

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At our first Eastside gathering, we made space to ground, connect, forget, and create. For the second session, we’re applying design thinking to real life and work—to the places where we feel stuck. I’m drawing from Stanford d.school, but we’ll make it our own. If you missed the first session because you didn’t know what the heck this workshop was, you gotta be here. This is a crazy and noisy time. AI? Layoffs? Mental struggles? Money? Expectations? If something is pressing on you so hard that you’re saying, I am fucking done with this, but I don’t know what’s next, this is the place for you. We’re going to work on creating your own space, your own work, your own life—your amazing, genius shit. Leaders create. The mediocre follow. And this has nothing to do with how good you are at any particular skill. When you want it so bad, you can learn a skill, or find someone who’s good at it. But you need to know what you want. You need to develop your own taste instead of borrowing someone else’s. When you’re stuck, your mind and soul can get trapped in a box you don’t even know is there. You can grind toward the so-called greater and better for decades and still not have the freedom you wanted. So bring the game on. Let’s get the real thing going. Bring one real thing you’re stuck on. We’ll use design thinking, our senses, and each other to see it from a new angle. I’m keeping the exercises a surprise.