I'm reflectig on your description of design thinking. It would help me to see an example of one challenge and how design thinking could be applied to it.

Perhaps it's a little early to try to apply it but I'll try. I'm writing/finishing an article about the kids in detention centers, and I'm thinking about the personas: good hearted people who want to reach out in some way to advocate or give emotional support to the children, advocacy organizations, possibly political leaders, famous women who have come out against separating children from caregivers, members of a group I founded that gives support, conceivably people who agree with the current system, mothers and grandmothers, Hispanic organizations, judges, psychology magazines, sexual assault prevention and support organizations, periodicals in border towns. Some of these personas I could target together, and some separately - if I choose them.

And in thinking outside the box I'm needing to explore why family detention centers have had legal battles closing them down, and possibly what the costs might be of designing different types of detention facilities, ways to ensure people show up for hearings without detaining, or judicial fast-tracking. As it is, there is so much info to learn about and integrate. If this was my business I could perhaps do more consultation and learn about options that have already been presented and offer out of the box options. I imagine such agility and the range of personas approached, and out of the box creations could possibly take months or years. I imagine there is a type of mapping that can be used to keep track of this many-directioned thinking.

I do appreciate your generosity in providing resources and introducing a non-technical person like me to approaches new to me. I know you're very busy so I won't expect any answer. But if you read this long response and have feedback, I would appreciate it.

Finally, I visited India for a few months, and this concept of design thinking makes me think of an agility of consciousness I saw amongst my friends there, as if they were more in "one mind" than I was used to in the U.S. where we are more focused in ndividual minds. For one example, a joke told would ripple through the people as if they were all singing different notes of one laughter song.