Founder, ♥️ startups + early stage. Building teams, products, and businesses. DMs open! Ex Director of Engineering @Certn.
Victoria, Canada
Joined March 2008
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“the University guarantees all members the broadest possible latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge, & learn…it is not the proper role of the University to shield individuals from ideas & opinions they find …disagreeable, or even deeply offensive.” thefire.org/get-involved/stu…
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The cost of housing makes everything suck--it factors in everywhere--and shooting for a world where the cost of housing increases faster than the rate of inflation is a _terrible_ societal policy.
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⬇️ I would agree with this.
#RethinkFailure
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James Addison retweeted
Bad leaders cause as much or more destruction than good leaders cause benefits to organizations. This meta-analysis shows destructive leaders undermine satisfaction, well-being, commitment, and performance. Plus bad leadership spreads, as their abusive approaches are copied!
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There's no upside in hating on someone's idea. You come off as non-believer or ruin their confidence. Instead, just ask the questions that make you hesitate & let them come to their own conclusion. If you're right, you helped them think it through. If you're wrong, you'll learn.
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FURIOUS to hear @sd61schools plan to cut ENTIRE music program in elementary and middle schools across greater Victoria. Seen first hand as a parent how crucial they are. I thought we’d collectively learned fine arts matter as much as STEM? @JM_Whiteside @lanapopham @jjhorgan
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There's so much money sloshing around the system we've had to invent new asset classes (crypto, SPACs, art and music NFTs, meme stocks, sneakers, sports highlight videos, etc) to absorb it all.
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Feast your pies on this—we're giving away 314 Raspberry Pis in celebration of Pi Day.
Simply like and RT for your chance to win!
Unlike pi, this giveaway ends on 3/14. Open to pi lovers in CAN/US (exclusions apply). Rules: bit.ly/shopiday?utm_campaign…
#giveaway #shopiday
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Canadian govt: We need more entrepreneurs!
Entrepreneur (who didn't move to the US for some reason): But I spent all my capital on my house.
James Addison retweeted
"The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation."
- James Freeman Clarke
Who can name some solid statespeople currently serving? Anywhere in the world will do nicely.
James Addison retweeted
This is the content that Twitter should be surfacing in its algo:
"every time you slap a label on someone and put them in a box, you filter what you see. You make your world smaller, simpler, and less reflective of reality"
theprofile.substack.com/p/la…
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If you care about productivity, you care about internal code quality. If you want to go faster tomorrow, you care about the quality of the code you wrote today. - @GeePawHill
#agile
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Career advice I give often:
Start staying no more often and allocate more time to your own work.
We rarely give ourselves enough time to understand the difference between good work and great work.
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Man, I miss these guys. Rob Baker’s fingerstyle intro to ABAC in the encore still takes my breath away. #RIP
Labour day weekend is quickly approaching, join us for a movie night! @CTV will be airing ‘Long Time Running’ this Saturday, September 5th from 9pm to 11pm in your local time zone.
