North-West ExpeditionsReading Time: 4 minutes Parenting is embracing a million tiny deaths, including your own Hellos and Good-byes He was super excited. His first time walking to school on his own. This is the magical end of grade four. Like all magic, the alchemy comes with a cost, a tiny, beautiful slice of a fee. In return for this amazing new […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes While I slowly query agents for my first book I’ve started on a new one about a Racoon named Dot. The characters are all based on animals that (more or less) live in my alley. This scene is based on a true story (that time I accidentally threw my keys into my dumpiest only to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Kids digging graves for kids. It is something out of a horror movie. Something from the Holocaust. It is Canadian history from very recent history.
Reading Time: 5 minutes I generally prefer writing on medium (probably means I need to choose a new word press theme?). This article was first published on Medium in the Bootcamp publication. If you prefer that reader you can see the original here. Cheap solutions: sometimes the problem isn’t the tech Ian RoweMar 21 · 6 min readCuriosity, listening, and building relationships […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes A lot of what we write and say gets in the way of what we a) need to communicate, b) need to get done, or c) all of the above. As a leader in Apple Retail for about 13 years I had the chance to fuck this up a lot, and to learn. Between countless employee mentoring, training, […]
Reading Time: 10 minutes What A City Is For by Matt Hern is about one of the most important topics of our time: how to deal with housing people and making cities work for all the humans in them. Matt Hern is clearly an incredibly well read deep thinker on this topic with great ideas. And he has written […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes I have been reading way, way less during covid, but writing more, so maybe I’ll write an indulgent post just about that. In the meantime, most of the books I am reading this year are “kids” books (middle grade if you’re into the specifics). I have always loved middle grade novels. Classic favourites are Lloyd […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes Many organizations use, or at least have access to, Korn Ferry’s FYI FOR YOUR IMPROVEMENT. At Apple Retail this tool provided the backbone for employee and leadership development. But, in my 12+ years at Apple it was clear that the tool was often mis-used, ignored, or at least misunderstood by both employees trying to improve and […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes In 2019, I set a goal to read 3 books a month. I like to beat goals and so I read 42. This is the most that I can remember ever reading. Below is the list, most of them were great. Typically these lists link to amazon as a place for purchase. Last year I […]
Reading Time: 7 minutes I’m not Obama, but if you’re looking for a read below are some ideas of what to pick up (and some thoughts about what to skip). A skimable read. Theme: Learning I read less than normal in 2020. It turns out that my commute by transit is my primary reading time (even more than before bed). […]