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September 6, 2024

Naming Poet & Scribe

Where my business' name comes from; a hybrid mix of creation and curation, product and process.

The name Poet & Scribe—the business my wife and I launched in June 2022, pivoting a few times since—first came to me while reading The Social Photo; On Photography and Social Media by Nathan Jurgenson, a social media theorist and Editor in chief of Real Life Magazine.

The book itself is a reflection of the role photography plays and its impact on society—moving a long, expensive, and laborious process to quick, cheap, and easy. When you layer on Big Data and, nowadays, generative AI.

The book was released in 2019, just missing out on exploring this extremely interesting layer to the treatise.

As a digital professional and creator of graphic images—through words, graphic design, photography, web development, and product engineering—it was an extremely influential read, and why it’s on my list of books that have shaped my practices.

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