Dylan Hawthorn
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- The Rise of the Creative Technologist: How & Why Artists and Creatives Are Shaping the Future of AI
- All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
- Escape the Screenshot Graveyard: Using Notion AI to turn notes, memos & screenshots into action, content, and next steps
- Writing the Video Game Narrative
- The Future of Energy and the 30X Problem
- Building A Profitable Independent Newsletter
- What should I do while AI is working? answer will shape the future of humanity
- What Does It Take to Build an AI a Man Will Trust at 11pm? The making of mrkos.ai and what silence taught us about designing for the hardest conversations.
- Every Corpus Was a Body Once: Putting the [body] language into LLMs
- 📡🕸️ Preppers & Comrades Unite: Building a Decentralized Mesh Network for Resilient Communication
- When Disability Is Misread: Safety in High-Stress Systems
- Whose Utopia? Restructuring the Digital Environment in an Age of Human - AI Relationships
- The Good Years: Formative Tech Companies in the Twin Cities
- What the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now?
- Don’t Blame the User—Fix the Design: The UX of Streets and Cities
- Gopher Supercomputing: Past, Present, and Future
- We Won a Global Hackathon. Then We Built a Real Company. Here's What Changed.
- 3D Printing: Getting Started
- Code, cloth, and your hands: How engaging in textile craft makes you a better technologist
- Dr. BotLove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI
- Crafternoon
- I'm Disabled & You Will Be, Too
- Horror Movie Survival: Protecting Yourself From Airborne Pathogens
- What Happens When You Combine Bad Bunny + AI + Mental Health?
- Questions to ask during a transition... and who can help.
- Photogrammetry to Furniture - Designing for the real world in Blender
- ✨ Let’s animate! ✨ An Introduction to Rive.app
- Cybersecurity Warnings 😳
- A weather station, plant monitors, buttons, and other smart home fun
- Boldly You: Showing Up to Your Life’s Purpose
- From Uncle Sam to Civic Tech: Rebuilding Civic Engagement for Gen Z Using Design Thinking
- More... "Diagrams to Get your $hit together"
- Don't Let AI Eat You Alive: What Every Employee, Leader, and Organization Must Do Before It’s Too Late
- Build A Bridge with Interactive Art
- Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Defeating the Loneliness Epidemic!
- 3D Printing: One step closer to the home replicator?
- Website Improv: You're the Worst Client Ever
- Leave With Something You Made: Crop Art, Community & an Unlikely AI Assist
- Is AI Coming for Your Job? Interior Design as a Case Study
- Data & Analytics in the Age of AI: Lessons from Healthcare Analytics
- You Are a Superhero. Let's Discover Your Superpower So You Can Use It for Greatness
- Ai + Fractionals: The Next Chapter of the American Economy Is You
- 50 Years of Consoles, Computers, and Handhelds: The Convergence of the Steam Deck
- Resume Refresh: Ready for AI, Designed to Impress
- More Than a User: Bringing Unreasonable Hospitality into IT Support
- The Five Poisons of Business: Transforming the Patterns That Hold Us Back
- No One Has the Full Picture (Especially in Complex Systems)
- Building a Knowledge Graph Your AI Can Actually Use
- How we bootstrapped our podcast studio in six months to profitiablity.
- Play Well With Others: Creativity Through Collaboration
- Lessons learned building LAIC: Life Time’s AI Concierge
- Train AI To Be Your Employee
- Make your first video game with "just enough" AI
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of LLMs at Creating Broken Systems
- Stop Fighting the LLM: Mental Models for Fast, Frustration-Free App Building
- 🔥😌 Calm in the Chaos: Real-World Incident Management (and the Stuff We Don’t Talk About)
- The UX of Being Human: A Usability Assessment of You
- Shadow AI! Innovation Without Oversight
- Think First. Prompt Later. Be un-BOT-able.
- Managing Your Tech Career v17 – (Why do recruiters suck so bad?)
- I Tried to Replace Myself with AI. The AI Was the Easy Part.
- The Human Side of AI Adoption: Why Most AI Projects Fail Before They Start
- 🤖 AI LIGHTNING TALKS ⚡
- JUMP! A regular person’s guide to introducing AI at work and in real life.
- AI in Schools: What Students Are Actually Doing (and What Comes Next)
- AI Sucks ☯️
- The Startup Was a Financial Success. I Am Not Building It That Way Again.
- 10x'ing Myself and My Team: Leading With Agents, Not Just Using Them
- Government’s in the Room. Go.
- Catan, Clean Energy, and Code: Can You Prove That Wind Farm Actually Generated Electricity?
- PolitiClaw: building a local-first political co-pilot with OpenClaw 🦞
- What tech lessons should we learn from the ICE invasion?
- How AI Shapes Human Judgment: Confidence, Trust, and Over‑Reliance Across Three Original Studies (As a High Schooler)
- Research at the Speed of AI: What Works, What Breaks, and What Still Needs You
- Why is tech sexist? A farming perspective
- Well Dontcha Know: The National Center for Autonomous Technologies is in Northern Minnesota
- The Minnebar Scavenger Hunt: Powered by AI & Tape
- Solar and Battery Storage: What the process of getting a microgrid looks like.
- Join our quest to throw a ring into a volcano
- The Work That Holds Teams Together: Stop Blaming the Person. Fix the System.
- Editing Photos On Your Phone with No Apps
- AI Films Are Real. Here's How I Use LLMs, Diffusion Models & Voice AI to Build an End-to-End Film Pipeline
- The Parts You Didn't See: A Collective Account of Operation Metro Surge