Not painting, but art: the act of doing something that might not work, simply because it’s a generous thing to do. The combination of talent, skill, craft, and point of view that brings new light to old problems. The way we change our culture and ourselves.

Investors look to startups to find in them the benefits that thinking like an artist bestows: a greater sense of zeitgeist, a willingness to probe, the freedom to change and to experiment. When less enslaved by competition and over-heated markets, the entrepreneurial ecosystem could be seen as a vast network of sense-makers, all aspiring to the

An artist gathers information, generates ideas, and then crafts and displays ideas with which people can update their mental operating systems if they so choose. These ideas dangle outside the hyperbaric space hut. If a tribe lets them enter, the ideas breathe. “I see things” is art about to happen. Your canvas is every conversation, meeting,

In an age of uncertainty and change, being able to sense what to do in advance of reliable prediction could make businesses or non-profits smarter, more inventive and more relevant. Sense-making, the intuition for change and capacity to pursue it energetically is what markets applauded in Steve Jobs, a man who wasn’t an artist but thought like one.