This document discusses creating space for exploration, asking questions, examining realities, and discussing ideas. It encourages doing a large volume of work to improve skills and notes most creative people experience a phase where their work is not as good as they want it to be. The document suggests finding leverage points to create change and inventing the future through generosity with time, ideas and emotions.

1. What was
this class
about?

10. Are you thinking,
“I could have done
all this on my own.”?

11. That’s true,
and you should
do these things
on your own,
but...

13. “The people who are doing the work
are the moving force behind the
Macintosh. My job is to
create a space for them,
to clear out the rest of the
organization and keep it at bay.’’
--Steve Jobs

14. We want you to
have space

15. This is a space to
ask questions
examine realities
explore possibilities
discuss ideas

16. We want you to
be as good as
you want to/can be

17. “...for the first couple years that you're making
stuff, what you're making isn't so good… it's
really not that great. It's trying to be good, it has
ambition to be good, but it's not quite that good.
But your taste, the thing that got you into the
game, your taste is still killer. And your taste is
good enough that you can tell that what you're
making is kind of a disappointment to you, you
know what I mean?

18. …A lot of people never get past that phase. A lot
of people at that point, they quit. And the thing I
would say to you with all my heart is that most
everybody I know who does interesting, creative
work, they went through a phase of years where
they had really good taste, they could tell what
they were making wasn't as good as they
wanted it to be, they knew it fell short… it didn't
have that special thing that we wanted it to
have… Everybody goes through that…

19. you gotta know it's totally normal, and the most
important possible thing you can do is do a lot
of work. Do a huge volume of work. Put
yourself on a deadline so that every week or
every month you know you're gonna finish one
story… You create the deadline… [I]t's only by
actually going through a volume of work that
you're going to catch up and close that gap
and the work that you're making will be as
good as your ambitions.”
-- Ira Glass

20. We want you to
be as good as
you want to/can be
with your thoughts, too

21. “...the production of information
sharpens the mind and
clarifies your thoughts.”
-- Clay Johnson

22. We want you to
have good tools,
that sometimes
we didn’t have,
until recently

23. H+E Conceptual Toolkit antiauthority
the Velcro theory of
forced testable memory
prioritization credentials
authority
interrelations
solution focus
send destination
find the core the Sinatra test postcards
elements purpose simple
credible
script critical
moves
human-scale direct the rider
principle find bright spots
use analogies
systems
Communications
concrete
Systems Behavorial Change black & white
feedback goals
Thinking leverage points unexpected
stories emotion
motivate the
elephant help people grow use checklists
opportunities violate schemas
outcome traps
create mystery shape the path
find the feeling create action
target triggers
shrink the change
impact from a thing will it get to those expose knowledge
know your make it social
who need it? gaps
mission appeal to idenity tweak the
environment
verb
engineer early
Impact will they use it successes
is it needed? correctly?
build a culture
measure the
right thing
fail early, fail often embrace
constraints
drift
measure it well
harvest ideas, edit
applications compelling
smart experience
recombinations jump fences framework
design
abductive thinking generative
reasoning metaphors
ask stupid
questions
make hope visible
combine familiar
and surprising

24. Making
connections

27. seeing the
invisible

28. making the
invisible
visible

30. seeing what’s
possible

33. You now have
a better model
of the present

34. and
models for a
better future

35. The future starts now.

36. What you do
matters

38. Attitudes
and
behaviors
are
contagious

39. So,
DTRT

40. A T F T?

41. So,
DTRT
whenever
possible

42. So,
DTRT
whenever as much as
possible

43. shop local
consume less
choose to reuse
consume responsibly
eat less meat
compost
drink tap water
conserve water
conserve energy

44. You don’t
have to be
like this guy
but...

45. know your
habits

47. $6

48. so you can
change your
habits

49. $5

50. vote)
with your
(
dollars too

52. $3.50
$5=kept local

54. “Make
hope
visible”

55. If something’s
TBU

56. DFWAI

57. Know
the scale
of your engagement

58. Think about
the systems
so you can...

59. find your
umbrella issue

60. Al Gore: Climate Change
Victoria Thatcher: Food
Annie Leonard: Stuff
Nathan Shedroff: Design
David Eagleman: Brain / Internet

61. and
frame it

66. find
leverage points

67. “places in a system
where a small change
could lead to
a large shift in behavior.”

68. Edward Mazria
The 2030 Challenge
architecture2030.org

69. The building sector
consumes 77% of
energy produced in the US
Edward Mazria
at aBWxD 2010

70. architecture2030.org

71. architecture2030.org

72. from survive to
thrive

73. “It’s the
environment,
stupid.”
--Andrew Lo
MIT 150
Symposium
Brains, Minds
and Machines

74. A thrivable
future
is a future in
which we’ve

75. Developed an ecological identity
Redefined prosperity
Rediscovered democracy
Redesigned how we live
Stabilized world population
Outgrown fossil fuels

76. “The best way to
predict the future
is to invent it.”
--Alan Kay

77. So,
whether its your personal future or
the future you believe we should share,
invent it.

78. Be generous with
your time, ideas
and emotions.

79. Be generous to
your time, ideas
and emotions.