Where Technology Meets Intuition: A Gentle Start to My Thesis 🎓

It’s a season of change for many — and I know how much uncertainty that can bring. If you're feeling the weight of it too, please take a moment to breathe and be kind to yourself. ✨ These periods can feel intense, but they also hold space for reflection, resilience, and sometimes, unexpected clarity. Wherever you are right now, you're not alone.

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As someone who’s passionate about digital innovation, I want to share a bit of how I’m using technology — specifically AI — to shape my master thesis into something much more than just an academic exercise. I want it to be a journey of reflection and direction. Something that captures where I’ve been, where I’m going, and what I truly care about.

Using AI as a Thinking Partner

My university gave me a structured path to help discover the right thesis topic. And while I appreciate structure, I knew I also needed space to think wild. I needed to explore freely, capture scattered thoughts, and reflect deeply to land on a topic that actually feels like me.

So I did something a little different: I created my own AI support system.

I set it up with the key things it should know about me—my interests, my values, and the kind of support I expect. It became not just a chatbot, but a creative partner. A challenger. A mirror.

Because I believe in multi-layered reflection, I even connected a few tools together—so they could reflect back insights from different angles. One challenged my assumptions. One helped me explore patterns. Another held onto past ideas and nudged me when something resonated again. Together, they formed a quiet but powerful ecosystem to support my thinking process.

From Chaos to Clarity

At first, I asked the AI to help me brainstorm topics from scratch. The ideas were okay, but something was missing. I realized I hadn’t shared the full picture yet—my notes, my voice memos, the scattered, half-formed thoughts I’d been carrying around for months.

So I fed the chaos into the conversation.

And I asked: What do you see here? What patterns are emerging?

Here’s what came back—something that surprised and grounded me:

🧩 The Pattern I See: Your Thesis Is a Bridge You’re standing at the intersection of digital transformation, human-centered change, and communication/storytelling—and what you're really trying to do is bridge the vision gap: - Between tech potential and real business need - Between executive assumptions and what people on the ground experience - Between complexity/ambiguity and a shared, inspiring direction - Between knowing change is needed and getting people to actually come along You feel the urgency of this gap deeply—because you’ve lived it. You’ve been in the room when executives can’t see the forest for the trees, and when beautiful tech solutions die because no one believed in them. You want to empower others to lead transformation in a way that brings clarity, alignment, and humanity. 🔑 A Working Title That Could Anchor Your Thesis: “Visioneering the Future: How Storytelling and Strategic Framing Enable People-Centered Digital Transformation” (We’ll refine this over time, but it already captures a lot: making transformation visible, human, and shareable.)

Why Tech Like This Matters

I’ll keep you posted as I move through this master thesis journey—sharing the reflections, pivots, and insights that shape the process along the way.

Along the way, technology has become a quiet companion—helping me make sense of the messier, more meaningful parts of the process.

If you’re curious about how AI can support you—not just with answers, but as a tool for deeper thinking—feel free to reach out. Sometimes the real magic happens not by adding more information, but by making sense of what’s already within you.

Technology won’t do the inner work for us. But with the right setup, it can help us do that work with more clarity, creativity, and confidence.

Find Your Wave,

Sarah 🌊