Milestones: Turning 40 + Launching Lime
LIFE BEGINS AT 40 More than a few people have said, “Life begins at 40″ to me lately. Many of them have experienced it themselves. You stop caring about what people think and you start focusing on what...
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[it's been difficult to keep this to myself for the past few weeks...watch Surprise Party Sue to understand! ;)] In 2009, when I moved to Montreal, the point wasn’t for my move to be permanent. I...
View ArticleDangerous Data: when it tells the wrong story
I opened up my email this morning to see an article from Mashable titled The Anatomy of the World’s Top Performing CEOs [INFOGRAPHIC] and then opened the article to see a really depressing infographic...
View ArticleMeritocracy is Almost as Real as this Unicorn
Not sure how to avoid plagiarism? I use Grammarly because, if nothing else, I’m an original. ;) While living and working in San Francisco many years back, I learned a new term: Meritocracy. It sounded...
View ArticleI’m Daily Vlogging!
Okay…so this isn’t groundbreaking. LOTS of people do this and have been doing this since 2006. But I’ve avoided it like the plague. Why? Well, here are all of my lame excuses I’ve had over the years:...
View Article2014 Themeword: Purpose
[from the Holstee Manifesto, a poster I have hanging in my living room that I really need to read more often]Well 2013…let’s take stock. At the end of 2012, I declared you would be my year of Triumph....
View ArticleMy Aptitude Adjustment (with Latitude by YouScience)
I love this stuff, so I just have to share. Sorry if it seems gratuitous or ‘braggy’. I don’t mean it that way. This might be the coolest thing I’ve done for my career in quite sometime. This week, I...
View ArticleConfidence and the Cause-Effect Loop
From Lean In to inspirational messages, the answer to much of inequality seems to be the responsibility of the person on the losing end of the equation. Fair enough, you might say, that person stands...
View ArticleIt’s Worse Than You Think: or why you should care about poverty, jobs and...
[Row of Unemployed from Flickr Commons] I’m afraid. Truly. I’m afraid of where we’re headed. We live in a world where the basic storyline goes something like this: we are born, we get educated, we go...
View Article2015 #Themeword: Create
Creative double lane bowling! Welcome 2015. New year. New home. New job. 2014 was quite a year! It started out without too much fuss. Carlos and I spent our first NYE in Toronto, ringing in 2014. By...
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