Did you know when he sold his first proper book “Carrie,” Stephen King and his wife had so little money, their phone was shut off?  When she heard first, Tabby had to walk to the neighbours house with the kids to use their phone, just to call Steve with the news on the deal? He...

Effective organisations aren’t one-way streets. To create a healthy, or high performing team (relationship, business, country…), it’s important to build and maintain avenues for open feedback and idea flow in both directions. In many situations, only through feedback, or vertical idea flow from the “bottom up,” can we see a questioning of path dependence or...

When I was selling running shoes maybe a decade ago, we would get the occasional “speed walker” in the store. This group in particular was only interested in racing flats, which are lightweight, really low-pitch shoes. On top of this, they only wanted shoes that were dark in colour. If the soles were too bright,...

A few months ago some friends and I were at a virtual reality centre. They use the technology to help people re-habilitate chronic injuries through VR games. We each jumped in to try out a rudimentary task-based game. You had to “fly” this plane-like contraption over a virtual valley and steer it through some colourful...

We were loading our plates with a second serving of fresh fish tacos (the little corn tortillas), and I asked my friend how his work was going. He sat down, and artfully wrapped up his burrito. He said he grew a nice network last year, allowing him to do the work he loved, which was...

There’s a small breakfast-restaurant not far from here that does a great eggs on toast. It’s the perfect sized meal to go with their single origin coffee. The fans here enjoy the vibe – the plants hanging on the wall bring a bit of softness to the bustling space. People take a little longer to...

I just got a new 500g bag of Porter St. Coffee. Any new bag is always a highlight – mainly because the old bag is getting low, and you can taste it… With the bag of coffee, they included a card. It’s 8cm x 12cm tall, and gives a bunch of detail about the coffee....

A while back I hired a nutritionist. It was 2016, I had been doing the “healthy food,” low-carb and fasting stuff since ’09, and I was in a hole. Mentally gone. Anyway, he me doing three days per week of food logs, helping me “balance” my meals. This “logging” was done on an excel spreadsheets...