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Latest article on my substack - Artemis II has us riveted. Link in comments.

Join me for one hour a day for six weeks, starting March 30th

Future AI Mindset Six Week Workshop The Future AI Mindset Is a human-centered framework for building your AI-integrated thinking practice.The Six-Week Workshop is a Live Learning Journey Throug...

About a year and a half ago I ran a small experiment.

It was during an event called AI Festivus in December 2024. I showed up with a few rough sketches, some field notes, and a question that had been bouncing around my head for months:

How do we stay future-oriented when AI keeps shifting the ground under our feet?

The conversation that night was electric. People were curious, excited, a little uneasy, and very thoughtful. We ended up talking about imagination, decision-making, and what it means to think clearly when the systems around us are learning and changing.

After that night, I kept writing.

Those notes turned into more conversations.
Those conversations slowly became a book.

The Future AI Mindset: Curiosity Field Guide for Imagining Your Tomorrow is now out in the world.

While writing it, I realized something. Reading about ideas is one thing. Practicing them is another. So I started building exercises that help people actually use the ideas in real time.

I began running those sessions with groups in person. Leaders, researchers, builders, curious humans. The discussions were fascinating and a little different every time.

So now I’m opening the experience up more broadly. I’m hosting a six-week live virtual workshop based on the book:

Future AI Mindset: A 6-Week Intensive Field Guide for Imagining Your Tomorrow

Over six weeks we’ll build things like:

• a personal Future AI Mindset statement
• an Applied Futures Map
• a backcasting pathway
• a decision anchor for navigating uncertainty
• and a personal practice you can carry into your work and life

We start Monday, March 30 and meet one hour each week for six weeks, with a few small assignments along the way.

If spending an hour a week thinking about the future sounds like a useful experiment, I’d love to have you join.

Registration link is in the comments.

And if someone comes to mind who might enjoy exploring this with me, feel free to send it their way.

Over 10 weeks since a November start, I went deeper into working with AI, and something unexpected happened...... I found myself back at paper and ink.

What started as an exploration of practice and tools slowly became something else entirely. It became about attention. About permission. About slowing down enough to notice friction instead of rushing past it. About letting my hands back into the work in a serious way.

I started tracking complaints as data. Working inside time containers. Drawing and collaging again. Bringing hand-made work directly into professional contexts where I used to outsource or polish it away.

This isn’t a story about rejecting AI. I use it. I teach it. I’m comfortable with it.

It’s a story about staying human while working with it.

I wrote the longer reflection Substack, if you’re curious to read where this path led. It’s for anyone who feels both excited by these systems and quietly pulled toward slowness, materiality, or practice.

The Deeper I Went Into AI, the More I Came Back to Paper and Ink For 10 weeks, I was in an experiment that didn’t look like one at first.

This ink drawing by Cyndi C**n is called "Everything is fine."

The Lab Studio is tidied up and ready for the 2026 drawing season to begin.

We Choose the Bear - cowritten with captures the moment the internet asked the question of women, do you choose the bear or do you choose the man?

This book captures stories, art, social media, and the moment in this movement when women decided they're choosing the bear.

Are you interested in reading about some early generative AI adopters? AI Futures an Anthology is filled with stories about how people came to find generative AI as a collaboration partner.

Available on Amazon in print and in ebook.

If you have created a ton of content that's just hanging out and not helping you - Make 2026, the year that you repurpose all of that content into saleable products like workshops, trainings, social media posts, books, articles.

I wrote a book filled with ideas on how to do that.

Content Remix is available on Amazon.

Women! Join women to learn more about gender AI.

Future-Ready Skills: A Superpower

This week, with DeepSeek arriving on the scene, made the AI revolution real—reshaping industries, reimagining creativity, and redefining how we do things. But the real superpower in this era? It is not AI itself—it is you.

In my latest article, I break down how Gen AI is amplifying both opportunity and noise:

The Future-Ready Mindset: Your AI Superpower Partner By Cyndi C**n

What is AttentionCasting?

What is AttentionCasting Your attention is one of your most valuable assets—but it’s often overlooked. In today’s world, where countless demands compete for your focus, it’s easy to ...