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Mental Models, Mantras and My Mission

This article also appears in Global Nerdy. Like the previous article, it’s about my role at Microsoft and doesn’t delve…

16 years ago

Evangelist, Immigrant and Shaman

This article also appears in Global Nerdy. I thought it might be of interest not just to geeks, but also…

16 years ago

“Better Living Through Blogging”: The Slide Deck

This article also appears in Global Nerdy. Here’s the presentation I did at WordCamp Toronto 2009 this weekend, Better Living…

16 years ago

Career-Limiting Move

When using your company-assigned laptop to make presentations, remember to disable your pornographically-themed screensaver (and yes, the video below is…

16 years ago

A Wall Street Trader Tells All

The Independent has a great article by former Wall Streeter Philipp Meyer titled American Excess: A Wall Street Trader Tells…

16 years ago

Why the Office Oddball is Good for Business

Photo by David Crow. Click to see the source. A number of people who know me were concerned that I’d…

16 years ago

My Half-a-versary

This article also appears in Global Nerdy. That’s half-a-versary as in the celebration of something that took place half a…

16 years ago

The Temptation to Loaf

This article originally appeared in Global Nerdy. There’s a small TV set in my home office that I sometime turn…

16 years ago

Toronto’s Challenges, if it Tries to Become More Seattle- or Silicon Valley-esque

[This article was also posted on Global Nerdy.] Scenes from the Valley's El Camino Real (left) and Seattle's Pioneer Square…

17 years ago