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The Epic is Made Up of the Tiny
If you haven’t read Colum McCann’s novel Let the Great World Spin, I highly recommend you do. It’s one of my favourite finds of the last ten years. I’d lend you my copy, but it’s sitting on someone’s bookshelf in Vancouver where it’s likely to, unfortunately, remain unread. The Irish born and raised author lives…
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The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Salesforce Personas
So, in the first post on looking at the principles of Alan Cooper’s Inmates are Running the Asylum I summarized the overarching message of the book which is, essentially, “don’t let programmers design your solution.” This applies particularly in Salesforce world, as it’s fundamentally an operational tool–it implements your workflows and processes. This time we’re…
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Henry Moore, Two Large Forms
Two Large Forms is located in the Grange Park at the back of the Art Gallery of Ontario and adjacent to the OCADU. You can learn more about it in a little feature the AGO posted.
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Bluesky, Social Media, and the…Present?
I was on Twitter from fairly early days. I lived in Vancouver at the time, and it was fun, engaging, safe place to connect and meet people. I met one of my closest friends to this day there through a weird conversation about bagpipers, and two of the most meaningful and important person relationships I’ve…
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The Inmates are Running the Asylum: A Salesforce Centric Look
I’ve been reminding people (some might say ranting) about the fact that people should read Alan Cooper’s classic The Inmates Are Running the Asylum in the context of Salesforce development for a bit, so I figured I’d elaborate on it and look at some of its points in more depth. I’m not going to lie:…
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Tariffs, the Sentient Cheeto and the Trudeau
I was never exactly on Team Justin, having spent my fleeting youth on another Team Trudeau. I saw Justin’s election as a sign of the further populist and Americanization of Canadian politics–he was a name, not an effective leader. The notion that being the son of a Prime Minister qualified him to be Prime Minister…
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Justin Trudeau, Jagmeet Singh and the Future of Canada
Somewhat by fluke and on very short notice, I wound up on Parliament Hill on Sunday January 5th of 2025. The next morning, it was a very different place the next morning when Justin Trudeau resigned. It’s a bad situation–the Liberal Party of Canada has never done succession very well, and Justin has left us…
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Transit: A Toronto Tale
I grew up in Toronto, then spent a bunch of years in Vancouver, and came back just before the pandemic. Vancouver is a small city, and I didn’t have much of a relationship with transit there–a couple of buses I took regularly, but outside of that I spent way more time on a bike, and…
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Hooded Mergansers at the Stone Pond
Humber Bayshores’ Stone Pond can be a bit overrun with birds at times, most of them pretty standard ducks, Canada Geese and a few swans. The Hooded Mergansers are in around this time of year though, and they are very pretty.
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Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France
Today marks the re-opening of Notre Dame cathedral. I’ve never been inside–both of my Paris visits came after the fire–but I figured it might be worth looking back on some photos taken both before and after the spire was restored. One of these days I’ll get inside.