My running journal of what I'm building, reading and working through, written as it happens.
Portfolio
Durable copies of pieces I wrote or steered — customer stories, DAM systems writing, AI essays, and brand experiments. Each archive page includes a link to the live original when one exists (Hawk Ridge, Bynder, CMSWire, portfolio PDFs).
HAWK RIDGE SYSTEMS • 2025Turning Scrap into SustainabilityPacific Recycling’s use of SOLIDWORKS for lean, circular manufacturing operations.Customer Story • Archived copy
HAWK RIDGE SYSTEMS • 2025How AI Fits into the SOLIDWORKS WorkflowEngineer-led practical guide to AURA, drawings automation, and where LLMs actually help.Technical Blog • Archived copy
CMSWIRE • 2020Can Marketers Use AI-Generated Synthetic Media for Good?Ethics, opportunity, and restraint when deepfakes and synthetic media hit the marketing mix.Guest post • AI ethics • Archived
BYNDER • 2020A Game of Thrones Taxonomy for DAMTeaching taxonomy design through Westeros — houses, sigils, and naming systems that save brands from chaos.Blog • Framework • Archived
BYNDER × ONBRAND • 2021State of Branding Annual Report1,600 marketers surveyed with Vanson Bourne — digital experience and creative automation.Research report • Portfolio
HENRY STEWART PUBLICATIONS • 2015Journal of Digital Media ManagementJournal article • Academic
INFORMATION TODAY EUROPE • 2017The Many Hats of the Digital LibrarianThe Renaissance woman/man is proficient in a variety of things. In a way, the modern digital librarian is a true renaissance role because we can (and do) wear many hats.Feature article • Portfolio
HAWK RIDGE • INTERVIEW • 2026Jason Pohl InterviewDesigning for Shaq, Will Smith & Muhammad Ali — and why he joined SOLIDWORKS / D2M.Full interview archive →Personal Library
Personal writing and visual work — Visual Archive, garden and health threads, tech essays, and a Grok signal report. Plus the experiments that sit next to professional craft.
VISUAL ARCHIVEVisual ArchiveThree collections: Nifties, Grok Generative Art, and Hard Coded physical work — durable on-site galleries.3 projects · Photo-SelectionsFuture Garden JournalFuture Tech & Comms JournalFuture Dating & Sex JournalFuture Fitness/Health JournalThe Reading Chapel
Quiet writing on content strategy, manufacturing, AI, resilience, rural life, and living between systems and soil.
Daily JournalA running, informal log — short daily entries and reflections, newest first.NOVEMBER 2025Taking Tacit Knowledge and Making It TangibleHow content operations capture what teams actually know — and why writers still create the new data.NOVEMBER 2025A lot of marketing is shit.On boring campaigns, groupthink, and the case for weird, direct, thoroughly human communication.Projects & Side Quests
Finished work with durable archives on this site — original editions, fake newspaper ads, and SME interviews.
Not the NewspaperFull on-site archive of original BCE editions — essays, wordplay, and short-form observations.7 editions • 2026
Fake Newspaper Ad LibraryGrok-made vintage newspaper ads used across Not the Newspaper — hosted here so the portfolio doesn’t depend on a live folder path.21 ads • visual seriesHAWK RIDGE • INTERVIEWSHAWK RIDGE • INTERVIEWS SME Interview Project Engineers, programmers, PMs, and customers — shop-floor and design knowledge turned into readable stories for Hawk Ridge Systems. 9 archives →
ANON POST MAILSend an anonymous real postcard for $2.99 — pick a design, write your message, we mail it.Live • 2026Reach
I’m open to conversations about the weird world we live in — content systems and DAM, manufacturing stories and shop-floor proof, AI that actually helps writers and engineers and everyone, tacit knowledge and oral history, rural life on the land, resilience after hard seasons, brand voice that stays human, archives that don’t rot, and the half-built experiments that live between serious work and play. Want to talk? Reach out: notemily669+BCE@gmail.com.
If it’s specific, strange, useful, and honest — I’m listening.