Thought Leadship

The Year in Tech, 2026 — What Creators Must Know About the Future of AI, Trust, and Innovation

Technology is moving faster than most people can adapt. But adaptation is the new creative advantage.Harvard Business Review’s The Year in Tech, 2026 reveals the key transformations shaping the next 24 months — from agentic AI and living intelligence to the ethics, transparency, and environmental balance of emerging tech. For creators and solopreneurs, this book [...]

2025-10-06T15:36:35+01:00By |

Steal Like an Artist: The Solopreneur’s Step-by-Step Playbook for Creative Success

Creativity isn’t about being original. It’s about being authentic.Austin Kleon’s classic, Steal Like an Artist, isn’t a manifesto for plagiarism — it’s a manual for reinvention. For midlife creators, coaches, consultants, and solopreneurs — the message is pure gold:You don’t need permission, perfection, or a grand plan. You just need to start — and let [...]

2025-10-05T11:57:26+01:00By |

Stations, Not Statues: How to Work in Chapters and Let Your Art Keep Moving

“A work of art is not an end point in itself.It’s a station on a journey.A chapter in our lives.We acknowledge these transitionsby documenting each of them.” Most creators secretly try to carve statues—perfect, permanent, unchangeable. But real creative lives look more like rail journeys: you make something, you arrive somewhere new, you look around, [...]

2025-10-03T12:19:25+01:00By |

Ordinary → Extraordinary: How to Create Great Work with What You Have (Right Now)

“Do what you can with what you have.Nothing more is needed.” “Sometimes, it can be the most ordinary moment that creates an extraordinary piece of art.” You don’t need a bigger budget, a fancier camera, or a 90-day sabbatical to make meaningful work. You need a clear promise, a brave first move, and the [...]

2025-10-17T10:54:20+01:00By |

The Work Reveals Itself as You Go

A practical, slightly mystical field guide for IMMachines creators who build by moving “The work reveals itself as you go.”Also: “We are dealing in a magic realm. Nobody knows why or how it works.” If you’ve ever taken one small step and found a door you didn’t know existed—welcome to the club. Creation isn’t a [...]

2025-10-03T11:36:37+01:00By |

Be the Conduit: How to Let Ideas Manifest Through You

A Rick-Rubin–ish field guide for IMMachines creators, coaches, consultants, and solopreneurs “Talent is the ability to let ideas manifest themselves through you.” Most of us were taught that “talent” means you push harder, think smarter, and out-grind everyone. Nice story. Also wrong. The most reliable makers I know don’t force ideas—they host them. They reduce [...]

2025-10-03T11:14:37+01:00By |

Look Deeper: How to See the Invisible Opportunity (A Rick Rubin–Inspired Guide for Creators)

“The ability to look deeply is the root of creativity.To see past the ordinary and mundaneand get to what might otherwise be invisible.” — Rick Rubin Most people skim life like it’s a terms-and-conditions page. Creators don’t. We look deeper. That’s not woo-woo; it’s a practical competitive advantage. When you learn to see what others [...]

2025-10-03T22:07:49+01:00By |

The Prompt is the Art: Why Every GPT is a Creative Act

Introduction: Creativity Has a New Canvas For centuries, artists have expressed creativity through brushes, instruments, chisels, and words. Today, there’s a new canvas: the prompt. Every time you write a prompt—whether it’s a single line or a structured sequence—you are making a creative choice. You’re shaping possibility. You’re saying: “This is the world I want [...]

2025-11-15T12:08:20+00:00By |

The Creative Ambush (for Mid-Life Creators): A Practical, Spiritual, No-Excuses Field Guide to Making Work That Matters

If you’ve been feeling “stuck,” bored of frameworks, and secretly craving the thrill of making something only you could make—this is for you. TL;DR (but read it anyway, you’re a creator 😉) The Creative Ambush argues that real creativity isn’t summoned by sticky notes, frameworks, or polite meetings. It’s born when you take radical responsibility, [...]

2025-10-03T10:02:31+01:00By |

You Are Owned by What You Cannot Resist

Freedom is not addition — it is mastery over desire We often say: “I want more.” More income. More followers. More comfort. More ease. But what we rarely admit is this: if we cannot resist the pull of any desire in us, then we are not free — we are owned by what we desire. [...]

2025-10-02T16:26:36+01:00By |
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