writing

Essays and articles I have written over the years that I feel define my intellectual life well

• Major Works – Philosophy of Economics
  • Price heuristic for climate change/conservation – undergrad thesis (2014)
  • Thesis Status Report (2014)

• Higher Education as a driver of economic development through social innovation, information science & complex systems science
  • Opportunities for stimulating interdisciplinarity on Canadian Campuses (2013)
  • The Foundation at Waterloo (2014)
  • Organizational Technologies and Social Innovation (2014)
  • A Reflection on Progress (2014)
  • Canoe Start-up Plan (collaborative, lead author) (2015-2016)

• Doing Innovation and Creativity
  • Innovations in Context Essay: Star Wars (1977) (2011)
  • On forming Transdisciplinary Teams (2011)
  • What Social Processes Encourage Creativity in Groups? (2013 – Cognitive Science)
  • Kirloskar (India Internship) Innovation Ideas and Recommendations (2013)

• Feminist Epistemologies + Social Change
  • Exploring feminist epistemologies with Cloud Atlas (2012)
  • Price is to value as science is to “reality” (2013 – basis of undergrad thesis work)
  • For a Fair Country (2014)
  • On Hadwin’s Judgement – The Golden Spruce (2016 – Facebook Post)

• Communications/Information Theory
  • This Procedural Life: Socio-cultural Systems and Rhetoric (2014)
  • Understanding the Rhetorical Super­project: Mapping Foundations and Measuring Impacts (2014)
  • Semiotics of the Social Technologies: Coordinating flows of the firm with accounting using the early Hudson’s Bay Company as an example (2014)

• Strategic Foresight 
  • Calgary 2164 (2009-2010)
  • Waurin (2011) (short story about VR start-up in form of wiki article)
  • Creative Career Planning 101 (2014)
  • My interview questions (2014)

• Business art
  • Super Ramen (2014)
  • Onward Red Socks (2012-13) was another project
  • www.brantacan.ca (2018)

• Storytelling/Poetry
  • Valedictory Speech – Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School (2010)
  • Never Events (2011-2012)
  • ONWARD (2016-continuing)

• Climate Change
  • Effects of climate change on the global maritime-shipping economic sector (2012)
  • Justice & Collecting payment for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (2013)

• Rethinking Economics
  • Consumer-grade simulations: economies in single-player computational games (2014)

• Opening up new transdisciplines
  • Expanding the scope of “Comparative Frontiers” as a transdiscipline (2014)

• Meta
  • Fall 2014 reading list
  • #bookbucketchallenge entry (2014)