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Paddy Harrington
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Design. Frontier. Love, all ways.
🧠 On Fogo Island, films didn’t just tell stories—they built infrastructure.

When 1960s fishers watched documentaries made with them, not about them, it changed everything: unity, co-ops, government policy.

Storytelling isn't fluff. It's strategy.
🔗 magazine.frontier.is/when-stories...
www.frontier.is
August 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Everyone’s busy building personal brands like they’re products.

What if you built yours like a city?

Not tidy. Not packaged. But alive. Layered. Evolving.

Less algorithm. More authenticity.

#PersonalBranding #UrbanDesign
magazine.frontier.is/you-are-a-ci...
You Are a City
Personal brands should be living systems, not one-line bios
magazine.frontier.is
July 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
What’s a brand, really? It’s *not* just your logo.
It’s the story people tell about:
– Every interaction you create
– The values you embody
– The consistency of your presence
Creating connection over time.
Read more: magazine.frontier.is/what-is-a-brand

#Brand #Storytelling #DesignThinking
What is a Brand?
And what is it not?
magazine.frontier.is
July 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
5 steps for reducing the chances of being fooled by AI generated content online:
1. Turn off your phone.
July 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Two thoughts that come to mind with this new Game Worlds thing: 1. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. 2. Junk in, junk out. play.runwayml.com/worlds/84571...
Runway | Game Worlds
Explore endless worlds, characters and stories. All generated as you play.
play.runwayml.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Too often, public engagement in design is just performance. Boards, Post-its, polite nods—and then, nothing changes.
I've been part of that.
We can do better.
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June 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Design means “to mark out.”
Not decorate.
To define intention.
June 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“We’ll finish the work first — then you can make it pretty.”
Every designer has heard this.
It’s code for: Design comes after the real thinking.
June 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Reposted by Paddy Harrington
Gov. Walz, "There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA."
March 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Spectacular episode: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t... The home of the resistance is Bluesky. Let the Matrix Protocol prosper!
Make Authoritarianism Great Again? with Maria Ressa
Podcast Episode · The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · 2025-03-06 · 1h 8m
podcasts.apple.com
March 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The ultimate branding success is being so desirable people will spend time trying to resurrect you from your DNA. www.404media.co/scientists-m...
Scientists Made a ‘Woolly Mouse’ in Quest to Resurrect Mammoths
They are cute, but are they mammoths? No. They are mice.
www.404media.co
March 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Reposted by Paddy Harrington
This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.
February 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The nice thing about technology is there are always alternatives.
January 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM