Turn That Music Down!
Jeremy pinged me a few weeks back: Big Sugar is coming, did I want to go? Given our previous two concerts this year alone, I was in. But more important, this is Big Sugar, which was a notable part of my late-1990s life. …
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It's too quiet
It’s quiet. Too quiet. At this time of the year, in the marketing industry, it’s usually mayhem: everyone trying to get their sales up as the year winds down, get holiday specials out the door, and my …
No Meetings Fridays Don't Solve The Problem
I was at Shaw Communications when I first experienced “No Meetings Fridays”, and I realized how stupid an idea it really is. I’m going to keep this short: removing a day from being able to meet with …
Confirmation Bias Will Be Our End
Humanity, for millennia, survived by groupthink: we needed to have common thought to survive. Little changes here and there – a discovery of a new tool, a realization that permanent marks could be made with paint …
Social media is dead
Just over two weeks ago, Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion. There is no part of this that makes any sense. How anyone can justify a sum of money greater than the GDP of 56% of all (current) nations to acquire what …
Meta admits failure over the Metaverse
I do truly mean this: I hate it when I’m right. I have to give credit to Zuckerberg for trying, I do. But when you are so utterly blind on a vision without understanding the very audience you’re trying to …
The Arkells at the Saddledome
Speaking of the next show… For Christmas 2021, I got tickets to a concert. Two of them. To The Arkells. The last time I saw The Arkells, they were opening for The Tragically Hip in Red Deer. That was the first …
Heart and Styx at the Jubilee
Jeremy and I have been to a few concerts together, notably a few Tragically Hip shows and John Fogerty’s “1969”. So, to a degree, I’m lucky that he pings me to go to shows with him. I was a bit …
20th Anniversary of the CBC TV VIA Rail Train
This is the 70th year that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has delivered TV service. I know this because 20 years ago, I helped run a celebration of CBC TV across Canada. And today is the 20th anniversary of that …
In the Believeco Tent
In the second week of August, I got a rather strange meeting request. It was lacking nearly all details. It was at the end of the day, a Friday. This was the sort of timing and specificity that usually suggested an …