Following my fun+indulgent post about how power flows from form, and the more strategic+applied post laying out a design framework for wielding that power, I asked AI to generate a expansive list of all the ways humans organize power, money, and each other. It’s meant to map the full possibility space of organizational forms you… Continue reading How We Organize Power
Fixing AI-speak
A style-guide to detect and remove obvious AI-isms in text. To be used as a “edit out all of this” style guide for my donor profiles. ANTI-STYLE GUIDE How to Edit Out the Tells of AI-Generated Writing Negative Reference for Final Editorial Passes INTRODUCTION This is not a style guide for how to write well.It’s… Continue reading Fixing AI-speak
Design Tenets for Structural Advocacy
When I first designed my fundraising workshop, I spent six months turning my intuitions, patterns, and experiences into a system that could be taught. The work was about making implicit knowledge explicit and figuring out how to make it land for other people. While I’m mostly known as a fundraiser, a significant portion of my… Continue reading Design Tenets for Structural Advocacy
Geoffrey MacDougall 