Category: Blog
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On How Money Is A Way To Get Closer To Doing Even More Work…
Some nice sounding statements here: Experiences are the currency of your mind Money is just a way to get closer to doing even more work… of the variety you choose to do Tim Denning
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On Coach Lou Holtz’s Simple and Powerful Mantra…
“Do right. Do the best you can, and treat other people the way you want to be treated.” Lou Holtz Mantra to his 17 to 22-year-old players he was coaching
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On Thinking Of Product Team As a Farmer and Architect …
“As an architect, you come up with this ideal plan and then you go try to build behind it… …when it’s finished, you hope that someone wants to live in that house…As a farmer, you see a sprout on the ground and you water it, you nurture it, you cultivate it. Over time, you have…
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On Overestimating Positive Routine (vs. Underestimating Negative Habits)…
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On Geopolitics and Climate Change…
This is a brilliantly written Three Part series by Abrahm Lustgarten. It paints a (very dark) and realistic picture on how the world as we know it, is changing. What that means to you and me (and others) who call this 3rd rock from the sun – home! One of my favourite lines from this…
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On The Irony Of COVID-19 Vaccine’s Success…
“That’s the contradiction of the U.S.’s vaccine success. The government and scientists all working together came up with a shot to save the world—and then they were able to prove so quickly that it worked only because those same institutions couldn’t save us from ourselves.” Robert Langreth
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Work Life Travel Integration
Heard of work life balance? ‘Balance’ implies they can be separated. In reality, they coexist. Giving way to integration. Work life integration. COVID-19 taught us a lot. Taught us to work remotely. Not quite all of us. But for lot of us. If work and life can coexist, so can work and travel. Travel.…
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Crack Trail – Killarney Provincial Park
Hike Details: Distance: 8 km (4 km out and back) Time: 2 hours 20 minutes (round trip) Map: Image Edits:
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On the importance of extremely clear communication (and STRIPE)…
On the importance of extremely clear communication I do a lot of editing of written materials at Stripe, and I still find myself leaning on the – it must be a cliche at this stage – how would you explain this to your friend in a bar? You wouldn’t in this day and age as…
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4 Noise-Cancelling Leadership Habits
I recently heard a podcast about leadership being presented as a more inward looking quality. This coupled with the fact that it had a catchy title “4 Noise-Cancelling Leadership Habits”, caught my attention. I highly recommend listening to it yourself. Nonetheless, here’s my distilled (spoiler alert) version… 1. Finding The Why Being self-reflective and understanding your ‘why’…