Thinker AND a Doer

Technology and its power to let us create whatever we want has always fascinated me. Inspired by shows like Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, and more, I have always wanted to be able to design, create, and code the things I imagine. Yet, I always considered myself a thinker, not a doer. Then, in 2014, the school I worked at opened their T-Space, a maker space for their students equipped with a 3D printer, laser cutter, mill and more and I found it to be the most fascinating room in the school. These tools seemed to me to be like the replicators of Star Trek, magical both in how they let one create and in how impossible it seemed I’d ever understand it. So, I continued my job as a project manager and over time learned more about these magical machines. How they were not really magic, and using them was very much in my grasp. Two years go by and I am looking for grad school programs that would allow me to become the maker I wanted to be and more importantly, provide the skills and resources to push my imaginings into ideas and ideas into reality. Eventually Google led me to the BDW Studio (known by the school as Strategic Communication Design) program, I was accepted and with my imagination flying at warp speeds, and my cat at my side I left everyone I knew and moved to Boulder for school. As soon as we finished orientation at our studio space I knew I had made the right choice. This program would teach me how to learn, how to stay up to date with emerging technologies, and how to incorporate them into my professional and personal life. Even more meaningful for me, the program would teach me how to push my ideas from concept to prototype to business. How to be a thinker and a doer. This has been something that I have always struggled with and is one of my biggest deficiencies. It is something that I hope to correct by the time I have graduated as I have a couple ideas that I am excited about and would like to use them to cut my teeth in the entrepreneurial landscape. My next post will reveal my two favorite ideas, how I came up with them and why they will impact the world for the better.

“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”
― Joss Whedon