// — For Robot –

if see(something) {
((thought + what if) ++1)
}
then say( “ahhhh”)

// — For Human –

1.0 – Dedicate time to day dream
It’s useful to have time in your schedule carved out for some serious day dreaming. The best times, I find, are when you are already doing some menial task that leaves your mind open for you thoughts to wander. A long commute home or laundry day is ideal. Do it every day. Don’t let people take away that time from you. Tell them you’ve got some serious dream work to do. If they don’t leave you alone we’ll send the robots after them.

1.1 – Day dream with others
Day dreaming with others allows you to break out of the world of your own experiences. You can combine the powers of multiple experiences and ideas. Be fearless in your sharing and build on top of each others dreamings. Where to do this can be tricky. Ideally you can carpool, save the environment and day dream at the same time. But if not, you might have to schedule a place where you can dream together. Coffee shops a nice. Urban trecking is even better. Don’t forget to bring your sketchbooks and cameras.

1.2 – Doodle when you dream
Even if it’s itchy chicken scratch doodle your dreams. You can then look at your scratches years from now and marvel at how much finer your scratching has become. Don’t worry about what other might think or how you need save your work for the future generations that will find your doodles and publish them into books. You’re probably not that important anyways.

1.3 – Dream big
If you’re not going to build castles in the sky don’t bother. There’s not fun in building a hut. There might be in building a sustainable multi income sea side community. Basically if you’re day dreaming about stuff you’d be thinking about at work you either have a fascinating job or you are not dreaming big enough.

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In indigenous aboriginal population of Australia dreaming has an important and revered role. There the act of ‘Dreaming’ represents the collective memory and visual representations of the laws for society, tribal law and the patterns of life for the aboriginal people. it’s a way to represent and comment on the history of a particular society. Dreaming is part of who we are as complex beings and the ability express our dreams is an important part that connects us to society.

Design thinking and design action are two parts of the model for creating impactful solutions. When an organization does ‘design thinking’ it’s as if its head is raised up high looking forward (and at the vision of what’s next) and when the organization does ‘design action’ their head is down and focused on executing with excellence (and style). Every project needs to do  both, one right after the other, to create momentum to reach large organizational goals.

The motion between the two types of design and the momentum generated becomes the central activity for the CXO of the new organization. The rate at which a organization can switch between both will determine the agility, competitiveness and success a company in the new economy.

Mr. Arduino Head is an exercise in electronic sketching.

After going through a number of blinking light tutorials I wanted to use the simplest components possible to create an emotional object. I chose a button, a knob (potentiometer), two lights (LEDs) for eyes, and a speaker (piezo buzzer) for a mouth. The goal was to create an open platform for experimentation so the object has a USB port coming out of the back that can be plugged in and used to give new instructions.

Mr. Arduino Head, as it is coded right now, will wake up slowly and beep when he is ready to interact with. The user can interact by rotating the knob to change the frequency with which Mr. Arduino Head sings or push the button to have it sing a pre determined song.

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