Gads, i believe i am becoming a burden upon my friends — the ones, especially, with whom i stay during my frequent perambulations through the geography of no-fixed-addressedness. H. and R. (in Vancouver and Victoria) bear the brunt of it. Strangely, it seems that what is most obnoxious about my presence in their lives is [...]
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Here i is, back with (a) a reliable Internet connection, combined with a comfortable office setting at the house-sit i’m currently house-sitting at, and (b) an iota of will to update the world on my insignificant wanderings and maunderings. It has been several months of couch-surfing in Vancouver and Victoria (thank you, Robert and Heather, [...]
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Correspondence with an old friend, triggered by a post i came across on Tony Tjan’s Harvard Business blog: Dear R– When i read this i thought of you and me. It’s off some website for venture capitalists, of all things, but the five questions made a lot of sense to me: These five questions, when [...]
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Well fuck me silly! Just as flu season is upon us, the British Medical Journal publishes a study showing that we can also catch happiness from those around us. Check it out on the good old CBC. Here’s the takeaway, in case you’re too goddam busy to pay attention to this nonsense: Happiness is contagious, [...]
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I spent the weekend at a men’s retreat. This bastion of the 1980s and 90s seems to have plummeted in popularity since the millenium (a Google search on “men’s retreat” brings up a scant 434,000 hits), which brings up the burning question “Why?”. Could it be that men are now so bonded and well-adjusted that [...]
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