Toronto, Ontario
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Brandon Vlaar retweeted
Not once in my time in office has a resident told me that Toronto is in dire need of an exclusive spa and an expensive amusement park. I do hear many requests for more free public parks, playgrounds, swimming pools with longer opening hours, and community centres. #Onpoli
Brandon Vlaar retweeted
Ever wonder how CO2-removing machines could fit thoughtfully into a community?
No need to use your imagination—in collab with Third Way, NWF helped to illustrate the real-world integration of #directaircapture into suburban & rural communities. ✅
📲 ow.ly/hyFJ50LXAwO
Why don't we have these everywhere in Toronto and while we're at it, have red light cameras at every light?
Seems like Toronto drivers and enough of these cameras could solve our city's budget shortfall very quickly.
Toronto collects $34M in fines from speed camera tickets in past two years
cp24.com/news/toronto-collec…
The microservices industrial complex.
Devs will read about a trendy new pattern on the Uber or FB engineering blog and then try and implement it where they work which likely doesn't have the scaling challenges of larger businesses.
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"Narratives that are right, on the other hand, follow from products, which means that if you want to control the narrative in the long run, you have to build the product first, whether that be a software product, a publication, or a company."
stratechery.com/2022/narrati…
Integrations-as-a-service companies need to get commoditized as quickly as possible.
If these services were priced reasonably, they would increase the GDP of the internet.
Brandon Vlaar retweeted
Leading up to @COP27P I’ve been thinking about what my home country - 🇨🇦 Canada 🇨🇦 - can contribute to #carbonremoval.
My take: Canada can build on its unique strengths to lead global progress on scaling up this global imperative.
A short 🧵 and a new blog post. 👇🏽
This is a thoughtful piece from @naimmerchant that outlines how Canada can become a leader in carbon dioxide removal.
carboncurve.substack.com/p/c…
Commoditizing your compliments is a strategy that's behind many successful companies.
This post has a few great examples
gwern.net/Complement
Twitter friends, this Summer I left my day to day role as CTO at Loop.
I'm fortunate to have worked with an amazing group of people, including my business partner (and good friend), @Cato_P4. The team is solving a real problem for an underserved market with a powerful solution.
It’s wild to watch Florida develop the Brightline in a matter of years with new stations and faster trains (up to 200km\h) compared to Via.
Passenger rail is part of the climate solution and in Canada we are failing at it.
Is privatizing Via a possible solution? – at Toronto, Ontario
I wrote about Via Rail's latest humiliation. While this isn't really the company's fault, it's too terrible at passenger rail travel to be put in charge of any renaissance.
nationalpost.com/opinion/chr…
