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What we talk about when we talk about buyers’ pain
Remember how Vancouver always used to rank top-5 in those most liveable cities lists? Yeah, I know. Most liveable if…
Read MoreDoes your Myers-Briggs personality type predict Social Media Dependency?
My kid is going through the Science Fair years. In the past he’s done projects on his family history, on…
Read MoreNegative Empathy
Should writers of fiction review the work of colleagues? I avoid it personally, and my rational for doing is the…
Read MoreWriting Craft: Lessons Learned from Architecture
I worked on a novel project some years back that involved doing a lot of research into architecture. I interview…
Read MoreWriting Craft: A Taxonomy of Unreliable Characters
I get asked about unreliable characters a lot, a device that’s been used extensively in storytelling through the ages. Twentieth…
Read MoreAi Weiwei’s New York Photographs
This is the transcript of an address given 13 Nov 2014 at the Belkin Gallery in Vancouver. — Thanks everyone…
Read MoreThe Achievement Square Fridge Magnet Game
In the middle of the night, early in the third week of UBC classes, Fall 2014, a strange installation appeared…
Read MoreRIP Paul Walker
Not a lot of RIP Paul Walker posts in my various feeds this morning, despite the Fast and the Furious lead…
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