About The AI Doodle
Home of The Doodle Principle: How AI Becomes Your Partner in Curiosity and Creativity
Welcome to The AI Doodle, the companion publication to my book
The Doodle Principle: How AI Becomes Your Partner in Curiosity and Creativity.
This publication is built on the core idea behind the book:
AI isn’t intelligent — it’s incomplete.
You supply the curiosity, creativity, judgment, and humanity.
AI supplies momentum.
The “doodle” is the bridge that makes this work — a modern reinterpretation of the old pen-and-paper doodle.
A doodle used to be a squiggle you made while thinking.
Today, with AI, a doodle is an intellectual spark
— a quick idea, prompt, question, scenario, or thought experiment that you feed into AI to explore what’s possible.
And yes, the name is also a nod to the quirky Goldendoodle on the cover — a reminder that AI doesn’t have to be cold, sterile, or intimidating. It can be playful, curious, human, and fun.
This publication brings those ideas to life.
What The AI Doodle Is
It is:
the living, evolving extension of the book
the practical playground where readers practice the Doodle Principle
the community where ideas, creativity, and clarity grow
the home of the FADES framework
part newsletter, part workshop, part curiosity lab
If the book teaches you the principles, this publication helps you apply them — one doodle at a time.
The Foundation: The Doodle Principle
The Doodle Principle has a simple mission:
Give people a clear, human, fun way to understand AI and use it to think better.
To make this practical, the book introduces FADES, a five-part model for understanding and using AI responsibly and creatively.
Those five parts will become the major sections of this site.
FADES — The Five Pillars of Your AI Journey
1. Fallacy
Why so many people misunderstand AI — and why believing AI is “smart” leads to bad expectations, frustration, and fear.
Here we unpack myths and clarify how AI actually works.
2. Anatomy
The mechanics behind what AI does, in human terms.
Not math. Not hype.
Just a clear picture of what’s happening behind the scenes so you can make sense of the tool.
3. Doodles
The center of everything.
Doodles are:
prompts
ideas
refinements
sketches
thought experiments
playful explorations
This is where creativity meets clarity.
This section will include real doodles, reader doodles, and expansions of the concept as a creative discipline.
4. Evolution
How your doodles grow — from curiosity to clarity to creativity to confidence.
This is where small experiments turn into insights, writing, creations, or solutions.
5. Scaffolding
The support structures that improve your use of AI:
frameworks
templates
prompt structures
mental models
thinking tools
This is the part that transforms AI from “neat trick” to “creative partner.”
Together, FADES is the structure of both the book and this publication.
Why This Substack Exists
Because after writing The Doodle Principle, I realized people needed more than a book.
They needed:
a place to practice
a place to play
a place to ask questions
a place to see real examples
a place to try doodles of their own
This Substack is the living version of the book — the hands-on workshop the book points you toward.
My goal is simple:
Help people use AI to become more curious, more creative, and clearer thinkers — not to replace themselves, but to expand themselves.
What You’ll Get Here
Doodles
Short, fun, surprising explorations based on real questions and ideas.
Many will connect directly to stories or chapters from the book.
Clarity Pieces
Simple explanations of how AI works, using everyday language and examples.
Scaffolding Tools
Templates, frameworks, and ready-to-use structures you can try immediately.
Evolution Stories
Before-and-after examples showing how a doodle grows into something meaningful.
Dog-themed analogies and creativity
Because creativity begins with play.
And because a doodle dog makes everything more fun.
Community Participation
You’ll soon be able to submit your own doodles
— and I’ll turn selected ones into public lessons, examples, or creative explorations.
Who I Am
I’m Kyle Ewing — tech leader, writer, and lifelong explainer of complex things.
I spent decades helping organizations evolve long before AI became mainstream, and I wrote The Doodle Principle to give people a simple, empowering way to use AI in their lives.
The AI Doodle is my way of opening that world to everyone.
Where to Begin
If you’re new, start with these upcoming posts:
What Is a Doodle?
Understanding FADES in 5 Minutes
The Doodle Principle: A One-Page Summary
Your First AI Doodle
How AI Makes You More Curious
How a Simple Doodle Grows Into a Big Idea
These will give you the foundation you need to jump in.
Ready to Doodle?
Subscribe to join readers exploring curiosity, creativity, clarity, and confidence through AI.
This space is for people who don’t want hype.
Don’t want fear.
Don’t want jargon.
Just a clear, fun way to understand AI — and use it to expand what’s possible.