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I watched a YouTube tutorial. Now what?
My YouTube feed is 40% tutorials, 40% tech reviews and 20% cute animals. I consume more tutorials than would be useful, particularly in music making — which is funny because I do not make music. You can probably relate to this, because it’s something the whole world does. In fact, “how-to” is one of the most searched…
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Stepping Out of Media Overload
In April 2020, a friend and I decided to start a digital media literacy initiative. We wanted to combat the rampant misinformation happening at the start of COVID-19. The idea was to infiltrate people’s social media feeds with thoughtful posts about how to approach current topics. Thus, ThinkFirst News was born. At the onset, this…
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Moving beyond documents, slides, and spreadsheets
This article was originally posted on Wrk.com on July 15, 2020. In 1896, Nikola Tesla created an A.C. power generating system at Niagara Falls that helped generate power for swathes of cities in the North American manufacturing heartlands. Nowadays, our understanding of innovation may contain very different inputs and outputs to those at the turn…
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An email on becoming a design consultant in the startup world
Recently a UX designer emailed me asking for my thoughts on moving out of the corporate world and becoming a design consultant in the startup world. Below is a lightly modified version of a 1,000-word email I responded with. If you are a designer in Montreal or elsewhere looking to work with startups, I hope…
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ThinkFirst News
Have you ever read an online article and wondered, “Who the f wrote this shit?” I feel this everyday. This project started off after a critical mass of garbage information started being thrown around during COVID-19. Despite the tons of fact checkers and great information out there, it wasn’t reaching my own personal networks. I…