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Exciting news! I’ve launched my own writing Substack.
As some of you may know, I’m a writer. I have been writing for over two decades, have published one full-length collection of poetry, put on a couple of plays, and am (slowly) working on a novel. Writing is my way of reflecting on my own experiences, raising awareness for important issues, and finding musicality in the world around me.
I wanted to create a platform where I can share ~drafts~ of things I'm working on as I go rather than just the finished, polished products. I also wanted to accountability - finding time to write is always a challenge, but if I had a group of loyal readers, I know I would push myself to keep going. If you would be interested in being a reader, listener and supporter, I’d love for you to join me on my substack (link below). Please do share with anyone else you may know, who might be interested.
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7 Writing Strategies from Media Theory’s Dynamic Duo: Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan
Canadian economic historian Harold Innis fundamentally changed how we understand communication through his studies of Canada's staple exports: fur, fish, lumber, and wheat. His analysis revealed that these commodities weren't just economic goods but communication systems that shaped entire civilizations. Building on this foundation, Innis developed his theory of media bias, demonstrating how different communication technologies create "monopolies of knowledge" that determine political and cultural power structures.
Marshall McLuhan, initially trained as a James Joyce and Renaissance scholar with a 1943 Cambridge doctorate on the classical trivium (grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric), transformed Innis's economic and historical insights into a comprehensive theory of media. Their intellectual partnership (though they only overlapped at the University of Toronto for a few years before Innis's death in 1952) produced methodological innovations that revolutionized both academic writing and our understanding of communication itself.
Drawing from a deep analysis of their shared approaches, here are seven strategies these thinkers pioneered that remain essential for writers and communicators navigating today's complex media landscape. 3 replies
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the deeper I get into products, development, and design, the more it's apparent, design is a frontier that makes great moat. it's a hard thing, designing with great taste.
and when you adopt software, which is a pattern of behaviors, you get locked into that pattern, which has a ceiling in itself. so if you adopt a ill-designed pattern of behaviors, and get locked in, you aren't rising to greatest version of your human existence.
good software design is why crypto and ai are so clearly ahead of the pattern of adoption still and only going to higher. no, it's not that there is good design in these areas, it's that these enable a larger vision of better design for the poorly designed things of the past.
education is one of these things.
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