2019-11-29 14:05
These two “E-F-F” words are what drives a lot of what happens in society today. If you want to run a successful business or a successful organization, you’ve gotta find a w… Read More
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2019-11-27 17:30
There’s been some news recently regarding the Toronto Maple Leafs that’s, well, that’s frankly, the very opposite of heart-warming. And hearing this news, put some other ne… Read More
2019-11-25 15:52
Every couple of weeks or so, Ben Thompson from Stratechery and James Allworth from Harvard Business Review sit down to talk tech and society. On their most recent episode, I couldn’t h… Read More
2019-11-05 15:27
Sorry for the clickbait-y post title. To be honest, I toyed with the idea of having a 15-20 word headline and then decided against it. Of course, there are lots of important factors that go… Read More
2019-11-04 14:48
Consciousness has always been a topic that’s fascinated me. How do we know that we’re aware? How do we know that other people are aware? Where is consciousness? Who’s… Read More
2019-10-08 18:04
It’s kind of amazing how quickly things start to pile up and one’s good intentions, the proverbial “best laid plans,” are thrown to the wayside. When I first came bac… Read More
2019-09-11 16:41
There’s lots that could be said on today’s anniversary, but the one piece that stood out to me is in The Atlantic — On 9/11, Luck Meant Everything: When the terrorist attac… Read More
2019-09-09 18:22
Depending upon one’s teachers at school when they were younger (or older), there can be an affinity for or a strong aversion from science. I remember fondly some of the teachers I had… Read More
2019-09-04 14:35
A few weeks ago, there was a rather poignant interview that aired between Stephen Colbert and Anderson Cooper. I didn’t see or read much of the coverage of it, but the thing that kept… Read More
2019-09-03 17:37
Note: for the last few posts, I’ve been exhausting the store-house of prewritten pieces from other websites that I hadn’t yet transferred to this website. I believe all have been… Read More
2019-08-30 16:04
Many, many moons ago, I started a series on the book Parenting Without Borders. Before I finished writing about the book, I took a bit of a hiatus. Since I saw a half-written post in my draf… Read More
2019-08-29 20:11
Recently, I read (er, re-read?) Phil Tetlock’s Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction. This book came out a couple of years ago (and was co-authored by Dan Gardner, whom I… Read More
2019-08-28 19:27
When I’m walking on the sidewalk, I trust that the cars will drive on the road. When the cars are driving down the road, they trust that pedestrians will walk on the sidewalk. When I s… Read More
2019-08-27 18:29
Change management is the cornerstone of shepherding an organization through and to change. And since change is the only constant in life [side note: how many articles are there out there abo… Read More
2019-08-26 19:15
You awake on Monday morning ready to meet the day. You’re excited about work today because your new manager is finally ready to join the team. You feel pretty happy to prepar… Read More
2019-08-23 17:00
Remember back to when you were a kid (for some of you, that’s waay back, so I’m sorry for taxing your memory like that, but I appreciate all the wisdom you bring. Too much?). In… Read More
2019-08-22 14:30
You’re sitting in the weekly management meeting and the senior person at the table is running through the agenda at a fevered pace. Decisions are being made, left, right, and center, a… Read More
2019-08-21 14:36
Most of what I’ve written about in the last few months has focused on change management from a macro-perspective, which is completely natural given my inclination to try and change the… Read More
2019-08-20 18:13
The other day I was feeling particularly spry. There was a jump in my step and I went about my day with great jubilance. You could argue for any number of things that contributed to this fee… Read More
2019-08-19 13:31
I spend quite a bit of time in the car commuting to and fro. As a way of maximizing my use of time, I’m almost always listening to a podcast. These podcasts are on my phone and I prefe… Read More
2019-08-18 15:15
In case you hadn’t noticed, culture change is top of mind seemingly everywhere. The Auditor General of Canada had some, oh, shall we say harsh (?), words last week [Emphasis Added]:
&l&hell…Read More
2019-08-17 18:31
In 2008, the “neighbourhood coffee shop” closed its doors across the US at precisely 5:30p for three hours to retrain its employees on everything from the sound the milk should m… Read More
2019-08-16 13:58
Contrary to our hopes and wishes, success does not happen overnight. I repeat, success does not happen overnight. Now, when someone hits it big, when something successful happens for someone… Read More
2019-08-15 15:24
Now isn’t that a quote!? I heard this the other day listening to Alie Ward’s 100th episode of Ologies. In just about every episode, Alie will interview an expert about their &ldq&hell…Read More
2019-08-14 19:18
I only have time for a quick (er, quicker than usual) post this afternoon, so I thought I’d riff on a few things that I’ve been thinking about recently.
Recess (Let The Kids Play… Read More
2019-08-13 18:43
Before I went on an extended hiatus, I used to try and string together a few posts into a series. In that same vein, I thought I’d start another one of those, but I won’t specifi… Read More
2019-08-12 13:33
I was catching up on some podcasts this weekend and I heard a particularly interesting one — Ezra Klein interviewing Astra Taylor. The conversation is wide-ranging, but there were a fe… Read More
2019-08-09 16:50
As I look to breathe some life back into writing, I thought I’d take a quick peek at some of the “drafts” I had saved from when I used to write regularly. Fortunately, ther… Read More
2019-08-08 14:45
Language matters. Belief matters. Thoughts matter. How we speak to each other matters. How we speak to ourselves, matters. All of it. If you’re reading this, these ideas probably aren… Read More
2019-08-07 15:13
Sometimes, I wish I could go back to 1955 and prevent John McCarthy from calling it “artificial intelligence.” It’s a term that, depending upon where you work, you can&rsqu&hell…Read More
2019-08-02 19:04
A few nights ago, the fifth episode of the seventh season of The Amazing Race Canada aired. If you’re not familiar with “The Amazing Race,” the idea is that teams (usually… Read More
2019-08-01 18:35
/blows dust off the website
Well, hello there! It’s been awhile, eh? Nearly two years ago was the last time I pressed publish on something that went live on this site (not including th… Read More
2017-09-14 15:27
I’ve been a parent now for a few years. In fact, I’ve been writing about Christine Gross-Loh’s book for nearly as long as I’ve been a parent. Certainly, there’s… Read More
2017-09-12 12:29
I came across a great post recently that you might say, is one of my guiding principles here — everyone should write:
You don’t talk about these ideas, even in your own head… Read More
2017-09-07 13:27
In the Introduction, we broached the idea that the way other cultures parent might be more “right” than the way that the culture in North America parents, as discussed in th… Read More
2017-09-05 15:16
That’s what Jen-Hsien Chiu thinks.
Chiu, a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, developed Phabit – a “smart pot” that will nurture a plant, depending on wh… Read More
2017-08-31 12:03
Do you think it’d be wonderful to have government departments with such lofty titles like the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Plenty, and the Ministry of Love… Read More
2017-08-29 13:02
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of visiting the MOSÏACANADA150 exhibit. It was quite an experience to see these wonderful artistic exploits up close and personal. In particular, the… Read More
2017-08-24 09:32
In the Introduction, we broached the idea that the way other cultures parent might be more “right” than the way that the culture in North America parents, as discussed in th… Read More
2017-08-17 11:42
In the Introduction, we broached the idea that the way other cultures parent might be more “right” than the way that the culture in North America parents, as discussed in th… Read More
2017-08-09 11:58
[Note: This series started two years ago! I had hoped to finish it last summer, but packing/moving made that a bit more complicated than I thought. I finally finished reading this book this… Read More
2017-08-04 14:22
In a conversation about “vegan food in the workplace,” I heard a thoughtful comment that reminded me of the Prisoner’s Dilemma. Before I paraphrase the comment, here’… Read More
2017-08-01 16:13
A few weeks ago, Tim Harford wrote an excellent article in the Financial Times – what we get wrong about technology. It’s chock-full of things worth considering. For instance, in… Read More
2017-07-30 22:21
There’s no question that “data science” is becoming more and more popular. In fact, Booz Allen Hamilton (a consultancy) found:
The term Data Science appeared in the compute… Read More
2017-07-28 14:34
In this morning’s Eurasia Group newsletter, Signal, there’s this snippet:
Our life experience shapes what we want, what we hope for, what we fear, and what we think. Ou… Read More
2016-06-23 11:38
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to participate in Doors Open Ottawa. This is an annual event in Ottawa where some of the oldest (or most celebrated) buildings in the city open their doors… Read More
2016-06-20 12:15
One of the first few posts I wrote when I first started writing was a collection of the different places I could be found on the internet. That post was more than five (!) years ago. The oth… Read More
2016-06-16 11:54
A couple of years ago, I came across an map that I found fascinating. It showed the most commonly spoken languages in the US (after English and Spanish). Some were fairly intuitive… Read More
2016-06-13 11:42
In the Introduction, we broached the idea that the way other cultures parent might be more “right” than the way that the culture in North America parents, as discussed in th… Read More
2016-06-09 11:35
In my experience, the best way to retain the material you’re reading is to be giving a presentation on said material. That might sound a little odd, but consider it for a mom… Read More
2016-06-06 12:01
In the Introduction, we broached the idea that the way other cultures parent might be more “right” than the way that the culture in North America parents, as discussed in th… Read More
2016-06-02 12:27
If you know me at all, you know that I’m a “fast” person. When I’m walking down a city sidewalk of a major street, there’s a 99% chance that I will ha… Read More
2016-05-30 12:20
In the Introduction, we broached the idea that the way other cultures parent might be more “right” than the way that the culture in North America parents, as discussed in th… Read More
2016-05-26 12:01
Unless you’re familiar with the literature in this arena (no pun intended) or you know about Betteridge’s law of headlines, the title of this post is actually still an unresolved… Read More
2016-05-23 11:55
Pop quiz: hands up — how many of you think positive stereotypes are OK?
I suspect that for many of you, your first reaction may have been, “well, yeah, they’re positive, ri… Read More
2016-05-02 12:02
Sometime last year, I came across a speech from the 2015 Toastmasters World Champion, Mohammed Qahtani. If you have a few minutes, I really suggest you take the time to watch it. OK, le… Read More
2016-04-28 11:58
It’s been almost five months since I wrote a post in this series. In fact, I looked back at the first three posts in this series and noticed that there was a rather large lag between s… Read More
2016-04-25 11:57
One of the things that I’m passionate about when I compose new posts on here is offering some sort of new perspective or a fresh perspective. Naturally, these are my two most ofte… Read More
2016-04-21 12:05
In (unintentionally) keeping with one of the themes from the last post — let’s talk about baseball after Jackie Robinson broke the colour barrier. Most people… Read More
2016-04-19 13:35
This past weekend, I had the chance to watch HBO’s Confirmation. It’s a dramatized version of Clarence Thomas’ confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States… Read More
2016-04-19 01:55
There was some research published within the last year that you might be particularly interested in, should you be in the middle of or about to go on a diet (or you… Read More
2016-04-18 12:01
Human companionship. It’s something that we all crave. In fact, a quick look at Google’s autocomplete shows that two of the top three results for “how to get a&rd&hell…Read More
2016-04-13 11:49
Last fall, I came across a post on Vox about high-speed rail. If you’ve read some of the things I published when I first started writing, you’ll know that I’m a big propone… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In some fields, the deeper you get into them, the more the field seems to approach spirituality. A perfect example of this is science. No doubt, there’s already ple… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In the Introduction, we broached the idea that the way other cultures parent might be more “right” than the way that the culture in North America parents, as discussed in th… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A few weeks ago, I heard a parent attempting to describe to their little one what time it was in a different time zone. I don’t precisely remember how the parent described t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In July, I began working on a series about the book Parenting Without Borders. Little did I know that I wouldn’t be able to write the second post in that series until ab… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
At first blush, the idea that there are more security guards in a country than high school teachers doesn’t seem right. It’s one of those things that, when you hear it, makes you… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I realize that the US is a big country and it has a lot of land that it needs to defend, but that seems like an unbelievable figure, doesn’t it? More on war than all 50 state… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
There was a good article in the New York Times this past weekend from a professor of economics at Harvard, N. Greg Mankiw. He talked about how when economist give advice on policies, they&rs&hell…Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
If you’ll recall from yesterday’s post, humans are wired for binge-watching. I wonder — are we spending too much time “vegging out” binge-watching when we&rsquo&hell…Read More
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