Part one
the world we built
How we ended up performing ourselves online: the slide from a shared broadcast culture to 300 million personalized feeds, and why hiding behind a screen name once felt like the safe choice.
Projects, in public
what I'm building
The Weird Canadian is a build-in-public project. The podcast and newsletter are the front door, but behind them the same hands are writing a book, recording songs, and shipping software. This page is the workbench.
A book in progress
Bleeding Digital
How we confused our online selves for our real ones, and how to become whole again.
Bleeding Digital is a book about what the internet did to identity, and how to take yours back. Not another book blaming the phone: those exist, and they point at the wrong thing.
The spine is my own story. I went from a screen name my mother invented to keep me safe from internet strangers, to a gaming persona who used technical skill as a weapon, to being the same person everywhere I show up. The book exists because that last part turned out to be the hard one, and the one worth writing down.
The way back is not less internet. It is closing the gap between who you are and who you perform, without deleting your accounts, going off-grid, or waiting for a law to fix it.
"We created performed versions of ourselves online, and then built a culture that treats the performance as the person."
Part two
the collapse
How the line between online and offline got erased: careers ended by screenshots, institutions that believe the screen first, and laws that cannot find the boundary.
Part three
becoming whole
The practical path back: agency over your own digital footprint, and becoming the same person everywhere, no retreat required.
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I'm writing it in the open. The newsletter is where the progress lives: chapters taking shape, arguments getting tested, and the parts that fight back. Subscribe and you'll watch the book get built.
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Music
I'm a lyricist: I write the words and the tune I want to hear, then use AI to bring the songs to life. The music is part of the same build: another way of working out what's worth saying, and then saying it out loud. No middlemen between the song and you.
Built in public
Software and tools
Practical tools and experiments, built in the open. Most of them start as a problem I hit while running this project; the useful ones get finished and put where you can grab them. If you want to support the work, Patreon is the door.
Run a small business? Harbourflow is where I build websites, workflows, and custom tools for Newfoundland small businesses.