Clare S. Dygert

Case Study: Overcoming AI Anxiety

weblead — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:31:10 +0000

A talented team at a mid-sized creative agency had heard a lot about AI, tried a few tools, and still felt like they were "treading water."

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Collaboration Has Changed

weblead — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:22:58 +0000

A friend wrote something today that named a feeling I haven’t seen named much: the quiet grief of losing the teamwork, not the work itself. The relationships that used to form around solving something hard together. She described co-working with AI more than collaborating with humans now, and feeling that community go quiet. I think…

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When Teams Underperform

weblead — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:21:53 +0000

I have never known anyone to wake up in the morning and think to themselves, “Today I want to do a really bad job at work.” But the reality is sometimes individuals underperform. That’s a problem. But a bigger problem is when a team underperforms. We tend to look at the individual when performance slips.…

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The Three Conditions of High‑Performing Learning Teams

weblead — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:18:59 +0000

There’s a question every learning leader eventually has to answer: how do you build a team that does genuinely creative, high-quality work and delivers it when the business needs it? In my experience, it comes down to three things working in concert: strategic clarity at the top, human investment at the individual level, and friction…

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The Future of Work

weblead — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:17:37 +0000

I believe in human-AI collaboration the way some people believe in a good partnership. You bring what you bring. Your partner brings what they bring. Together you do things neither of you could do alone. I’m a big-picture thinker. Claude is a detail holder. I generate ideas at speed. Claude catches what I drop. I…

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The Difference Between Friction and Growth

weblead — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:16:18 +0000

“You know that actress. The one with the curly blonde hair.” You’ve said this at a dinner table. Everyone has. You’re fishing around in your memory, dropping clues, watching your companions’ expressions shift from interested to politely concerned. “You know the one. She was in that movie. With the guy.” And nobody can remember her…

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Productive Struggle: A Learning Design Principle

weblead — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:13:57 +0000

My dad never did anything the simple way. When I was about ten, sidewalk surfing was the craze. This was before skateboards existed. We made our own: a cut-down 2×4, a rollerskate split into two axles, and you were flying down the hill. All the kids on my street were doing it. It looked like…

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Understanding Mental Model Shifts

weblead — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:12:50 +0000

When I was going through the one of the most painful times my life, I developed a strange little coping ritual. Every morning I would wake up and ask myself: “What’s going to happen today to Our Girl Clare?” Yep, I turned my own life into a TV show. And I’ll tell you what, somehow,…

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How Curiosity Shapes Design

weblead — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:07:24 +0000

My dad was basically a walking “how might we” statement. If you’ve spent time in design thinking, you know those the questions that crack open possibility instead of shutting it down. But my dad didn’t learn them in a workshop. He just lived that way. “Could I use this old teletype machine as a printer?”…

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The Trouble With What We Know

weblead — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:03:23 +0000

How Expertise Gets Performed Instead of Proven “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t true.” Have you ever heard that quote? It is attributed to Mark Twain. Funny thing. Mark Twain never said it. Scholars at the Center for Mark Twain have…

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