Career Prototyping
In my career coaching, I use a design thinking methodology to help people craft an authentic career – similar to the method that Bill Burnett talks about in Designing Your Life. In the book, Burnett describes prototyping a career to see if it is a good fit. Over the past few years, I have been doing that for myself, in prototyping a coaching practice as well as a business in Galeryst which I built during a sabbatical while working at Microsoft in 2021.
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Generative AI
After leaving Microsoft earlier this year, I jumped into the world of Generative AI, joining Typeface as a product manager. At Typeface, I saw the awesome power and potential of generative AI when applied to creating content for sales and marketing. Using AI, Typeface gave marketers a creative super power. While at Typeface, Galeryst took a back burner for my creative energy, but the site still grew on autopilot with new galleries and subscribers, proving that people and organizations want a way to easily create 3D virtual galleries in the metaverse from their art collections.
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Being exposed to Generative AI during this time, my creative ideas multiplied, especially around ways that I could use the technology to enhance and improve Galeryst which procedurally generates galleries from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom albums. Generative AI could super-charge Galeryst across many aspects of creating, sharing, and browsing art galleries. Seeing this amazing potential, I wanted to focus my creative energy on playing with the technology: experimenting, building, crafting, and collaborating with developers, technologists, artists, photographers, and gallerists. So, this week I left Typeface to go out on my own hoping to grow Galeryst with this transformative technology.
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A Mission
I found that while creating (drawing | painting | photography | modeling | coding), I also had a driving urge to help others create and be creative. I best articulated this in a personal mission statement that rounds out my style of creativity with coaching and mentoring as well:
I discover and craft connections linking creative processes that delight me with technologies that fascinate me, sharing the results to inspire and motivate others.
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An Ensemble Career
Being true to that mission, my next career chapter will be an ensemble of activities including:
- Improving and enhancing Galeryst with Generative AI, XR, and other exciting technologies
- Coaching and mentoring people at all stages of their careers
- Creating more artwork and exploring other creative mediums
- Collaborating with technologists and artists to create beautiful works
- Consulting around Software, Media, and Creative Workflows with Entertainment Technologists
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Seeking Fellow Travelers
I am always looking for fellow travelers on this journey to create with, to build with, to inspire, and be inspired by:
- If you have artwork and want to exhibit in a gallery, reach out to me and I will help you with creating a gallery on Galeryst.
- If you want to inspire young people to journal, guide your group or organization with a practice of visual journalling, or to show students how to code by building 3D art galleries, reach out to me.
- If you are looking for a career coach to help you craft a creative/technology career, to help you review your resume, or prepare for an interview, schedule a free 30-minute chat with me.
- If you want to setup a creative sync to share ideas and give each other creative feedback, reach out to me.
- If you want to collaborate with me combining creativity with technology, reach out to me.
- If you need help building technology solutions for media and entertainment, the cloud, AI, VR, XR, digital sketching, or creative tools, reach out to me.
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This is fantastic news, Michael! I look forward to watching your new adventure blossom! All the best!