The engineering director at my last workplace used to hold weekly "iteration reviews" with his teams, which was really just a fancy title for a meeting to communicate what you've discovered during the past week. Building software is a lot about making discoveries but the same could really be said about any creative process, [...] Read More…
"The Alberta Advantage" is a phrase the Alberta government made up to describe the benefits of living in Canada's most prosperous province. You know, it has something to do with the 179 billion barrels of oil locked up in the tar sands. There are the more glamourous parts, too: big prairie skies and [...] Read More…
I made an awful discovery today about my carbon footprint. After I read about the new Toronto edition of the Zerofootprint calculator, I decided to register and try it out to calculate my CO2 emissions for the past year. The result? 15.7 tonnes. According to Zerofootprint, the average Canadian emits 10.1 [...] Read More…
Thanks to Ryan, my brother Nicholas and I scored some tickets to see Hawksley Workman at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto a few weeks ago. I had only listened to his new album, Between the Beautifuls, a few times before his show and I was kinda ho-hum about it. I'm not crazy [...] Read More…
I recently came across Mike Rohde's fantastic sketchnotes from South by Southwest in Austin. Instead of typing notes on a laptop or hen-scratching on a notepad like typical conference-goers, Rohde makes brilliantly illustrated notes in his Moleskine sketchbook and conveniently makes them available on Flickr under a Creative Commons license. A pair of "visual cartographers" [...] Read More…