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Erik Michielsen: What is getting easier and what is getting harder in your life?
Hammans Stallings: So if you recall, I work for a company by the name of "Frog" and I
do strategy for this design company and for our clients. So, I work with designers, and
I work with technologists as a strategist and that means that I spend a lot of time
thinking about the future for clients and how they should change, how the world is changing.
And so, I spend a lot of time trying to learn about who they are as clients and as a company
as well. So, as a strategist at frog, I spend a lot of time integrating from a lot of different
fields from my background. I'd say that I'm getting better at applying particular, say
functional and academic frames to problems. So I've gotten better overtime at quickly
assessing what perspective to use at a -- for a particular problem. So, I think that is
kind of where I've gotten better at more recently and what -- what's gotten easier for me. What's
gotten harder is now recognizing that I'm at a place where there may not necessarily
be always a reference for what to do. I have to actually start creating some -- some new
theory, a new work. So, I think that's kind of a -- I'd say what's gotten harder. I realized
more and more that there isn't reference, there isn't something to kind of look to.
There's no -- there's not a lot of guidance and so I try to look into new fields that
have nothing to do with -- maybe how people have traditionally thought about a problem.