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Jun 29

Comics, Episodes, Characters, Thinking Styles

Brainstorm with guidelines; Find truly new opportunities

Three team members of the Nutrition Council at a table preparing to brainstorm ideas in support of a thinking style. There is a large-format comic pinned to the wall behind them, and also on the table, along with skylines.

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May 20

Guardrailing AI Outputs

via Thinking Style of your specific users

five thinking styles: Consider my options, Get out of here, Do it right, Nothing I can do, and Keep trying every idea

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Mar 19

I Trained It to Copy Your Style

Categories for how we use AI

I Trained It to Copy Your Style

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Jan 29

“Liberating, Terrifying, Humanizing”

Listening deeply empowers your team to support more thinking styles

a team using thinking styles (shown as green, purple, red people) and parts of the mental model skyling to enable more nuanced support for these people’s preferred way of approaching the purpose (shown as a big yellow wheel, like cheese, with cracks in it)

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Jan 14

Fresh Starts — Not Everyone Wants Them

Both Solar and Lunar New Year have traditions around cleaning up and making a fresh start. Not everyone is into cleaning or fresh starts…

A shining, smiling sun and a pleased looking crescent moon. The sun say, “I love all my pretty planets.” The moon replies, “I love the blue one best.”

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Dec 17, 2025

Disrupting Idea-Generation

There’s a phrase to help drivers remember that signal lights are for moving through town together. “Yellow, mellow, next time we’ll go.”*…

Three hand-illustrated heads with brains lit up in different areas with different colors. Cognition is streaming from these minds, shown as colorful crystal balls (inner thinking), hearts (emotional reactions), and stars (personal rules).

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Dec 2, 2025

Deeper Than Demographics & Roles

We all make assumptions about others. It’s part of how our pattern-recognizing brains work. We see a pattern — then we act on it, fast…

a pie chart divided into names of generations in the U.S.: baby boomers, generation x, millennials, and generation z. A very light wallpaper appears behind it consisting of open books, hearts, triangles, keys, etc.

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Nov 5, 2025

Where Do Ideas Come From?

… When you are not solving your own experiences

cloud with rain coming down to a shape labeled “Absorb.” A label at the top reads “Build the Right … Thing” and in the midst of the rain is text saying “Opportunity to create something!”

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Aug 11, 2025

Robot Mental Health

Have you ever tried to save a baby snake that was hurt by the tire of a passing car? Have you accidentally crushed the head of a lizard…

illustration of three autonomous, sentient “robots” representing types that exist in 2025. These are capable of sensing and responding, but they are not self-aware. They are not sapient. The first is a toilet-shaped robot, but much shorter, which as a water tank for washing the floor. The next is a lawnmower without a handle, with the label “lawn yum” on the side and grass around it. The third is a bit strawberry harvester in a field, with boxes of berries in view on a platform.

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Mar 14, 2025

Critical Thinking Requires Awareness

Awareness turns an assumption into “there is variety”

Maslow’s old pyramid of needs, with a new layer at the bottom called “caring for others.” This means someone takes care of another before taking care of their own physiological needs. And lots of viewers might think “women” do this, so there’s a comment next to the lowest layer of the pyramid with three faces, one of which has a mustache, saying that if you thought “women,” then you will want to read the essay.

Indi Young

Indi Young

Qualitative data scientist, helping product teams clients find opportunities to support diversity. Books https://indiyoung.com/books/

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