Calgary author. BA English (Hons.)
Founder of BerryHouse.ca & WriteClub.ca
Author of PRAIRIE BOYSPIRIT
I write about poetry, Indigenous lit, craft, tech criticism, & intersectionality
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🔆 brennan.day | 📝 blog.brennanbrown.ca
I'm Brennan. I've been writing poetry for 15 years and blogging for a decade. 170+ articles and counting!
Here's what I write about:
📖 Poetry craft
🪶 Indigenous literature
♿ Representation in media
💻 Tech criticism
🌿 Analog practices & slow living
✍️ The actual work of building a writing life
Daywriting is the practice of archiving your ordinary existence. For survival.
100 words about today.
I wrote a framework for 2026.
Start here: blog.brennanbrown.ca/how-can-we-u...
Daywriting is the practice of archiving your ordinary existence. For survival.
100 words about today.
I wrote a framework for 2026.
Start here: blog.brennanbrown.ca/how-can-we-u...
How many would-be artists never picked up the brush because someone told them no too many times?
This is about you, yes, you. 2026 needs your weird, unmade thing.
🔗 blog.brennanbrown.ca/how-a-taylor...
How many would-be artists never picked up the brush because someone told them no too many times?
This is about you, yes, you. 2026 needs your weird, unmade thing.
🔗 blog.brennanbrown.ca/how-a-taylor...
Today, I'm sharing I've stopped using AI in my coding entirely.
I've lost convenience. I've gained the feeling that I'm actually learning. I'm creating something genuinely mine.
🔗 blog.brennanbrown.ca/why-im-no-lo...
Today, I'm sharing I've stopped using AI in my coding entirely.
I've lost convenience. I've gained the feeling that I'm actually learning. I'm creating something genuinely mine.
🔗 blog.brennanbrown.ca/why-im-no-lo...
25% of Y Combinator startups now have codebases that are 95% AI-generated. Employment for junior devs dropped 20% between 2022 and 2025.
But there's an answer.
🔗 medium.com/@brennanbrow...
25% of Y Combinator startups now have codebases that are 95% AI-generated. Employment for junior devs dropped 20% between 2022 and 2025.
But there's an answer.
🔗 medium.com/@brennanbrow...
Is there a rich cultural life entirely on the commons? Or is modern culture locked too tight behind copyright?
🔗 blog.brennanbrown.ca/living-off-o...
Is there a rich cultural life entirely on the commons? Or is modern culture locked too tight behind copyright?
🔗 blog.brennanbrown.ca/living-off-o...
Instead, it gave us surveillance.
We need to look at:
• why most platforms fail
• why “just use Discord” isn’t the answer
• and what building something better might actually look like
What can we do with what we have?
medium.com/@brennanbrow...
Instead, it gave us surveillance.
We need to look at:
• why most platforms fail
• why “just use Discord” isn’t the answer
• and what building something better might actually look like
What can we do with what we have?
medium.com/@brennanbrow...
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The lie is that you have to be “good” before you’re allowed to begin.
And the practice is the resistance.
medium.com/@brennanbrow...
The lie is that you have to be “good” before you’re allowed to begin.
And the practice is the resistance.
medium.com/@brennanbrow...
This is now my official home on the IndieWeb and where I'll be spending most of my time digitally.
source code: gitlab.com/brennankbrow...
This is now my official home on the IndieWeb and where I'll be spending most of my time digitally.
source code: gitlab.com/brennankbrow...
No VC bullshit. No algorithmic “perform for reach.” Just tools for having a corner of the internet that’s actually yours.
🔗 blog.brennanbrown.ca/omg-lol-is-t...
No VC bullshit. No algorithmic “perform for reach.” Just tools for having a corner of the internet that’s actually yours.
🔗 blog.brennanbrown.ca/omg-lol-is-t...
Read the investigation: blog.brennanbrown.ca/are-nsfw-ai-...
Read the investigation: blog.brennanbrown.ca/are-nsfw-ai-...
I spent years collecting notebooks, trying apps and systems.
Objects in motion stay in motion.
The secret? Write one ugly sentence. Then another.
Essay on why we optimize instead (and how to stop):
🔗 blog.brennanbrown.ca/the-inertia-...
I spent years collecting notebooks, trying apps and systems.
Objects in motion stay in motion.
The secret? Write one ugly sentence. Then another.
Essay on why we optimize instead (and how to stop):
🔗 blog.brennanbrown.ca/the-inertia-...
Most of us do nothing. What we actually owe the living?
Not despair. Concrete actions we can take this week.
🔗 blog.brennanbrown.ca/witnessing-p...
Most of us do nothing. What we actually owe the living?
Not despair. Concrete actions we can take this week.
🔗 blog.brennanbrown.ca/witnessing-p...
I wrote an essay weaving agriculture, Plath, Frost, men's mental health, pandemic grief, and privilege.
"When We Get Blackheart"
🔗 blog.brennanbrown.ca/when-we-get-...
I wrote an essay weaving agriculture, Plath, Frost, men's mental health, pandemic grief, and privilege.
"When We Get Blackheart"
🔗 blog.brennanbrown.ca/when-we-get-...
My essays usually reach twenty people. Maybe a hundred if I'm very lucky.
Your civic duty isn't to be successful. It's to pay attention. To notice. To make.
🔗 medium.com/@brennanbrow...
My essays usually reach twenty people. Maybe a hundred if I'm very lucky.
Your civic duty isn't to be successful. It's to pay attention. To notice. To make.
🔗 medium.com/@brennanbrow...
We've lost newsrooms and the printing press.
We can't go back. But we can choose to work with the same integrity.
🔗 medium.com/@brennanbrow...
We've lost newsrooms and the printing press.
We can't go back. But we can choose to work with the same integrity.
🔗 medium.com/@brennanbrow...
I published an essay on why the backlash against Rupi Kaur says more about us than it does about her.
If #instapoetry was your thing, this is for you:
🔗 blog.brennanbrown.ca/in-defence-o...
I published an essay on why the backlash against Rupi Kaur says more about us than it does about her.
If #instapoetry was your thing, this is for you:
🔗 blog.brennanbrown.ca/in-defence-o...
i'm giving away 10 years of writing. take it, remix it, crop my name out. idc.
Are you clinging to authorship because capitalism taught you to? Or because the message matters?
LINK: medium.com/@brennanbrow...
i'm giving away 10 years of writing. take it, remix it, crop my name out. idc.
Are you clinging to authorship because capitalism taught you to? Or because the message matters?
LINK: medium.com/@brennanbrow...
The attention economy has taught us that, outside of streaming services, nothing is worth paying for.
Let's change that. Let's change how we use the Internet.
LINK: blog.brennanbrown.ca/move-to-a-be...
The attention economy has taught us that, outside of streaming services, nothing is worth paying for.
Let's change that. Let's change how we use the Internet.
LINK: blog.brennanbrown.ca/move-to-a-be...
You were there for each one. So was I. We just didn't know it.
September 26, 1983: 23 minutes
October 27, 1962: 4 hours
May 4, 1986: 15 minutes
You probably don't know them, but you're alive because of them.
LINK: blog.brennanbrown.ca/the-three-ti...
You were there for each one. So was I. We just didn't know it.
September 26, 1983: 23 minutes
October 27, 1962: 4 hours
May 4, 1986: 15 minutes
You probably don't know them, but you're alive because of them.
LINK: blog.brennanbrown.ca/the-three-ti...
One month. All longform. All demanding reader attention.
Quality engagement matters more than raw impressions.
Full breakdown: blog.brennanbrown.ca/i-wrote-24-l...
#Journalism #Writing #Media #ContentStrategy
One month. All longform. All demanding reader attention.
Quality engagement matters more than raw impressions.
Full breakdown: blog.brennanbrown.ca/i-wrote-24-l...
#Journalism #Writing #Media #ContentStrategy
We're facing an authenticity crisis where you can't prove you're human and I can't prove comments on my work are real.
The bubble will pop, it has to.
blog.brennanbrown.ca/the-piss-ave...
We're facing an authenticity crisis where you can't prove you're human and I can't prove comments on my work are real.
The bubble will pop, it has to.
blog.brennanbrown.ca/the-piss-ave...
We're facing an authenticity crisis where you can't prove you're human and I can't prove = comments on my work are real.
The bubble will pop, it has to.
blog.brennanbrown.ca/the-piss-ave...
We're facing an authenticity crisis where you can't prove you're human and I can't prove = comments on my work are real.
The bubble will pop, it has to.
blog.brennanbrown.ca/the-piss-ave...