A few years ago I spent a while trying to grasp “what it’s all about.” What I came up with — more or less — is that the purpose of life is to tell a good story. Whether or not that’s true, it’s the most effective way to manage and resolve a lot of problems. Some [...]
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It’s becoming apparent that my video persona is incurably idiotic – perhaps to compensate for the over-seriousness of my writing… Or maybe it’s simply the idiocy of my non-writing persona (i.e. the real me). MPG
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So there you have it: my first video. At the very least, I can say it’s out of the damn way. I’ve been meaning to start doing this for a week or two. I’m starting to move more of my writing energy into long-term professional projects rather than blogging — book-writing, I mean (more on [...]
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Education and architecture may be my two favourite fields to trespass into (after philosophy, economics, journalism, management…) and right now there are a couple of interesting pieces from Metropolis Magazine that combine them. The short one is “IDEO’s Ten Tips for Creating a 21st Century Classroom Experience.” Anyone familiar with John Dewey’s progressive theories will recognize most of the [...]
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I’ve been watching Macleans.ca gradually evolve for the past few months from a circa-2001 disgrace to something that (at least) signals their commitment to (at least) the idea of good design and social functionality. And it hasn’t escaped my notice that Macleans.ca is “Powered by WordPress” – just like the site you’re reading now. Their present iteration bears [...]
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I highly recommend the current issue of The Atlantic. I went out and bought it yesterday morning. Yes: bought… It has me thinking about magazines, why I like them so much (especially ambitiously intellectual magazines like The Atlantic) and what role publications like this will have in the future — or more specifically, how they will manage to adapt [...]
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Concerning blogging, I was just thinking about the importance of establishing certain expectations and meeting them consistently… In the last day or two I’m having trouble getting up stamina for the big, synoptic, sustained posts I tend to write when I’m on a roll, and which I’m developing a kind of discipline for. I’m just going to jam a little and [...]
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I’m going to go through this a lot quicker than the subject maybe deserves; it won’t be as comprehensive or straightforward as the title suggests. Anyways, this post is part of an ongoing series… It’s that… the whole point is this isn’t something to be settled on, but something that continuously unfolds or emerges through life [...]
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