Pitch Geek – Geoffrey MacDougall

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

Form.

For most of my life, I have carried a set of loves and obsessions: design, architecture, fashion, dance, rhetoric, protocol, and etiquette. A few years ago, I had a realization. These weren’t parallel interests, they were all expressions of the same fixation: form. In each of these disciplines, form is primary. Form isn’t something a… Continue reading Form.