Hi, I’m Parker!
This is a place for me to publish writings and research on the hodgepodge of topics I find interesting.
The current topics include: web/software development, visual design, online publishing, marketing, AI, and music/audio production. I hope you enjoy reading some of my thoughts and leave a comment!
POSTS:
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The Language We Are Quietly Losing
On idioms, culture-specific speech, and what gets sanded off when a machine helps you write. There is a Portuguese word, saudade, that English speakers love to call untranslatable. It is usually defined as something like…
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How to Use Emotion in Blog Writing (Without Losing Credibility)
The advice industry around “emotional writing” has a credibility problem. Most of it reads like instructions for manipulating people, dressed up in the vocabulary of connection. The good version of this advice exists — it’s…
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The 10 Best Free Design Books You Can Read Online Right Now
There are genuinely great books about web design, UI, UX, typography, and visual theory that you can read in a browser today — no payment, no email signup, no shipping wait. This is a curated…