The official letter from The Innovation Doctor. Your weekly prescription of practical creativity to get your ideas unstuck.
🎙️ From the Studio: What if your next big idea is a memory?
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Hey Reader, The work I'm doing on my new zine has unlocked something profound—a memory that has reshaped my entire business. I'm excited to share it with you in this week's letter from the studio. Dear Creativity, This is it. For weeks, I’ve been untangling signals, evolving the vibe I want to bring to the world. It all started with a simple idea for a zine. Working on this little paper book, I realized I wasn't just creating something new. I was re-discovering my 7-year-old self—the girl who self-published storybooks, written, illustrated, and bound with string and duct-taped cardboard. That memory changed everything. It gave me permission to build the business I was always meant to have: a "speakeasy for ideas," a space so special that when the doors open, you know you have to be in the room. A space built on fun, magic, and the joy of unraveling ideas. This little zine led me to setting up this studio, learning new tools, testing YouTube streams, and gearing up to launch The Idea Edit™—a place where we edit ideas down to small, actionable experiments. This picture is the messy truth. It’s the Lab and the Studio coming together. The secret invitations are almost ready. I have the ideas, and I have you. What powerful part of ourselves are we just waiting to rediscover? Innovatively yours, "From the Studio” is a weekly letter from The Innovation Doctor. The call-in lines are always open. If you have a question or a story for the Doctor, you can leave a message for her right here. |
The Doctor Is in // Lab Notes From the Studio
The official letter from The Innovation Doctor. Your weekly prescription of practical creativity to get your ideas unstuck.
Hey Reader, I went to see Phantom of the Opera for what must be the fifth time, expecting a nice afternoon but no real surprises. I should have known better. This week's lab notes are about what happened next. One more to add to the collection of playbills (Broadway San Jose -Phantom of the Opera) Dear Creativity, On my way into the theater, I was carrying all the usual static of the world—annoyance at the woman who tapped my bumper in the parking garage, the frantic rush to get to our seats....
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Hey Reader, Some people crochet. Others knit. I've discovered my meditative activity, and it involves a pile of stickers and a simple notebook. More on this discovery in this week's lab notes. The Computer Science Teachers Association from 2016 to today is captured on pages in my "junk journal". Dear Creativity, I've finally found my meditative activity: junk journaling. It started with the guilt of holding on to piles of beautiful stickers. I didn't have the conviction to commit them to a...