Expanding Ideas with Purpose and Flow

Starting is Momentum

Hello dear reader,

Visiting thoughts from an earlier time that felt similar to now in a business aspect. However similar, the learnings in this past year are knitted into my actions.

Observing the changes in the growth.

I wrote an article about pitching art businesses last year in September.

September, 2023

Lately, pitching has become a focus again.

A pitch is a pitch, whether going after VC funds or grant funds or just for the sheer masochistic delight of it. Every pitch is an opportunity to gain clarity and focus.

Something has been missing from my story, and I have been looking in the wrong direction for that missing piece.

I suspected my lack of essential sales knowledge was holding me back from clarity in my pitch delivery. After all these years in tech, on the dork side of the road (happily), I have yet to fill my cup with sales and outbound marketing knowledge.

Sales is a money minting skillset in the right hands; the clever seller deftly crafts enticing narratives around anything that needs selling. A lack of swarthy sales maneuvering however, is not the missing component causing me to confuse rather than entrance the listener when I am in the pitch hot-seat.

Synthesizing the Renaissance Mind #aicreator #unbound #art

Interlude: AI has become an exploration tool for my creative process. This is the latest in a series I am working on about geometric forms and expanding our thinking.

Stay tuned for my AI-imagined interpretation of the beautiful libraries of the world!

…continuing.

The latest pitch day was crafted by an incredible leader, who has been a beacon through the quagmire of tech layoffs of 2023 (Wendy, you are incredible). This remarkable leader, a dynamic woman with an impressive C.V. created a startup group for ex-techs who are ready to leave the corporate bonds for good, or at least entrepreneurially-curious.

The mega-Slack channel for laid-off tech expats has been a lifeline for myself and many in my world who were made "redundant." What an awful thing to say about a human in the midst of losing their livelihood.

I sound cynical here and perhaps I was. After the job I thought was going to be my dream job turned out to have the same and different corporate problems and blocks as other companies. I think it is important to acknowledge the people continually getting laid off from various jobs; we here about this all of the time.

There is no shame in getting laid off, and certainly, talk to a specialist if you find yourself struggling with mental health difficulties during and after a layoff.

If I can offer you one hopeful bright spot, a layoff can present a unique opportunity to deepen one's knowledge about oneself, back to the article.

You have a lot to discover about you.
Embrace the journey;
you are not alone.
❤️

This creative work I am doing by means of technology is transformational and new. The words are difficult to craft using the language of the landscape as it stands presently.

And I will leave you with a quote from the cofounder and CEO of the coding school empire, Flatiron—

"It's not just about knowing how to use technology—that's becoming a commodity very quickly in the same way that reading and writing is a commodity, a skill set. But your ability to use that skill set to do something creative, to ask the right question, to develop the right insights, is what actually creates value."

— Flatiron's Adam Enbar

Be kind to yourself because you are where the change begins.

—Sonia

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Check out my new video series about “Cathedral Thinking” on YouTube. The music in pt. one and two credits: Density & Time.

Synthesizing the Renaissance Mind Pt. 2 #aicreator #unbound #art

What, More Art explaining my AI in the loop process. See video below.

This video is made with my AI in The Loop editing process which I outline in my YouTube livestream if you want to come along to the dork side and watch me create for an hour and a half.

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