Your Narrator
I am a writer, reader, and product manager from Toronto. I’ve built a video streaming service, won the RCMP a union, completed a graduate-level history of media, and co-authored a civics textbook, Canadian Political Structure and Public Administration.
Monthly Reading Notes & Other Thoughts
My favourite business book, Rework (2010), epitomizes its own “sell your by-products” principle: the authors produced it as a result of creating a unique company culture. “When you make something, you always make something else,” and that, they observe, represents opportunity. Don’t leave money on the table—or the workshop floor, either.
The by-product of curiosity is knowledge—but also, in my own case, a lot of notes. The idea here is to share a monthly selection of such notes with some light commentary and context. It loosely emulates the Spectator’s venerable Notes column, which can range from a single topic to a handful of otherwise unrelated items. Ideally, sharing the fruit of my own curiosity sparks your own.
“The Large Print Giveth and the Small Print Taketh Away”
I generally yield to the motherly injunction about what to do in the absence of anything nice to say. Writing here reflects personal interest and opinion alone.
