It’s a wrap! March 2020

Apr 3

I hope you’re safe and able to stay at home. It’s been a month since I wrote the last update, back when we were all living in the old world.

The question now is, what do we want this new world to look like?

Just before we were asked to self-isolate, I started reading Katie Patrick’s book, How to Save the World. Katie is a designer who uses behavioral science and gaming theories to create life-changing products and solutions.

In her book, she writes:

“There’s no need to draw your motivation from any sadness caused by the environmental destruction or human suffering you’ve seen. Be motivated instead by a positive vision of how beautiful you think the world could be.”

Katie suggests reserving time every day to dream about how we’d like the world to be.

She suggests going through a day in the life of a person in that world and answering questions such as these:

In the ideal world, what products do people use in their daily lives?
What do the machines do?
What is the political structure like?
How is the financial structure?
What are the people like?
What do parties and social gatherings look like?
What does art look like?
How do the roads, food, school, and shopping malls look different than how they are now?

Inspired by the book, I started writing my own list of how I’d like the world to be. I wrote things down that I’ve been wanting to see in the world forever, such as decentralized fashion production through 3D printing or plastic being 100% recycled and recyclable.

It’s been inspiring to think about the world in terms of what it could be instead of what it is.

About 100 years ago, many people were living in quarantine, too. And, besides the two world wars, life on our planet has gotten better. The price of solar panels decreased significantly. More nature than ever has been protected. And smoke particles emitted per person have gone down (ok, the number of people went up, but that’s also because the number of children dying has dropped to 4% compared to 44% in 1800).

The coronavirus has given many of us the time to dream about a different world. A world where everything is allowed and the only boundary is our imagination.

Just like many others, I’ve lost my main paying client, so I’d like to take this opportunity to invite you to collaborate.

If you’d like to dream about what the future of your business should look like and think of digital products you could create, if you’d like to work on rebranding, updating your website, or maybe need help with remote work, don’t hesitate to get in touch. I’ve not only worked remotely for the past 6.5 years but have managed remote teams, too!

In the past four weeks, I’ve published: