Writer, Product Designer, and Software Engineer
Hi! My name is Mark Koester. I'm a data-centric technologist based in Venice, California.
Star Dust and Dreams is my fourth album release. I feel overjoyed to have the energy and creative chance to make more music, and, of course, to share my art for listening pleasure.
How do our actions become our creations? Which of our creative inputs will add up and eventually translate into our creative outcomes? What does it take to be creatively productive?
Have you ever wondered what your conversations with AI reveal about you? In seeking a solution to a work task, accelerating your learning or just having fun, perhaps our ChatGPT conversations might reveal insights about our behavior, thoughts, aspirations, and...
If you dedicate just 30 minutes a day to book reading for a year, you can easily finish between 30 and 40 books in a year.
I love the first day of the year (January 1) for a rather unusual reason. The thing I’m most excited about with each new year is the gift of getting to analyze all of my tracking data and data exhaust...
“As an idea, authenticity is superficially simple yet definitively elusive” (p 66)
From self-help gurus to pop psychologists, one message seems clear and nearly ubiquitous: “Be true to yourself.” Today the pursuit of authenticity has woven itself into the fabric of our culture and is championed by influential figures like Oprah Winfrey,...
Is authenticity merely a veiled form of narcissism? Can we truly be authentic individuals when our focus is solely on self-fulfillment?
Let’s stop asking AI for answers and start asking it for questions.
Johann Sebastian Bach, Stephen King, David Bowie, Pablo Picasso, Brian Eno – what links these creative giants? Prolific output.
Project note-taking is one of the simplest yet most powerful techniques I use to capture ideas, reflect and make progress on all of my goals. Project notes are a diary tailored for each step in the journey.
Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu once wrote in “The Art of War”: “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”
Ever tried assembling a puzzle without the image on the box?
‘Well,’ the man said, ‘if you don’t want to you don’t have to. I wouldn’t have you do it if you didn’t want to. But I know it’s perfectly simple.’ ‘And you really want to?’ [the girl said] ‘I think...
Energizing Instrumental Lofi Beats Music for flow, productivity and creative doings.
Awhile back I was walking along a beach when I came upon a series of heaped rocks stacked on top of each other. In English we can refer to these man-made piles of stones by the Gaelic term, cairn. In...
ChatGPT has changed how I journal. In the realm of personal and creative endeavors, few activities are as intimate and reflective as journaling. It is an avenue for exploring our thoughts, processing emotions, and capturing our life journey. Yet, in...
The room was noisy, and the faces of our judges seemed distracted as we gathered in front of them to pitch our project. It wasn’t an ideal scene to have a conversation, let alone attempt to explain the problem we’d...
Tick-tock, tick-tock. Time is one of our most precious resources, yet it often feels like it slips away without us even realizing it. What if there was a way to better see where you spend your time and use it...
Uptempo Lofi Beats Music for energized flow, productivity and creative doings.
