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Building a Perfect Portfolio – Part 5: Investing in Global Warming
I'd like to claim one thing before I start this post: I am an environmentalist and consistently do my part to spare the planet from our own destruction. It saddens me to see video clips of giant glaciers melting away into the ocean, or tsunamis sweeping away entire coastal Japanese villages. I cycle to work … Continue reading
How to survive a winter in Toronto
Now that the cold weather is here I thought I'd share some of the ways in which I battle winter in Toronto. Even though I grew up in the far north, I never really got used to the cold... so this is a list of things I do to stay warm in body and in … Continue reading
Loving your job
How many of us can honestly say that we absolutely love what we do for a living? Some say that you can love your job, but your job will never love you back in the same way. Not so, according to a panel of successful business people who spoke at Ryerson business school's CEO Outlook … Continue reading
It's official: Torontonians are dull and have an inferiority complex
People who live in Toronto are boring, quite conservative, their food is dry, and they consider themselves inferior to Americans.... Or at least this is what The Economist magazine would have the world believe.
Travel is a workout for the mind
A great quote I ripped off the wall from one of my friends on facebook. It speaks volumes to the experience of travelling... "Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except … Continue reading
On Sabbatical...
I'm seeing a bit of the world right now, so this site will not change much until I return. See you then!
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
A colleague passed me this link to a commencement address Steve Jobs gave at Stanford some time ago. I wish I had seen it earlier. I've intuitively practiced the same principles in life's decision making process as Jobs, but this crystallizes the process for me. Here, in point form, is the advice Jobs gave to … Continue reading
Annual spring snow is here
OK, every April we get a nice hit of warm weather here in Toronto, and every April I always warn everybody that every year it always snows at least once before the end of the month. It looks like this year is no exception. According to theweathernetwork.com we have a snow fall on the horizon … Continue reading
Hello, I'm Progress. You can't stop me.
Riding home one night I was captivated by this scene on Temperance Street: Tearing down the big concrete wall - along with a charming turn of the century building - to build the Bay/Adelaide Centre. Shot by me in 3 separate photos and stitched together January 16, 2007, 9:26:32 PM. (click the image for a … Continue reading
There are really 16 degress of separation between us.
All I ever learned about people, I could have learned a lot faster by studying Myers-Briggs - the popular personality test developed by its namesakes which reduces all 6 billion people in the world to a mere 16 personality types. There is also an interesting book called "Using Myers Briggs in the Workplace", which as … Continue reading