I want to run a brief thought experiment if you’ll indulge me. I want you to think about buying clothing online and try to relate this to shopping in-store. Let’s say you need a new shirt. You navigate to your favorite outfitter much in the same way (but simpler) that you would walk to the…
Design for Nerds
Modern chain hotels have become design beacons for the latest in hip, chic and stylish flare. Their lobbies are adorned with progressive art installations. Their restaurants feature the latest trends and crazes in high-end food experience. Their bars are some of the swankest nightclubs in the city. However, is all this panache missing the point…
Robots Control Your Mind
It’s a classic theme used in fiction: sci-fi writers and filmmakers create a dystopian future where robots use twisted logic around Asimov’s seminal 3 laws to decide that humanity can’t protect itself and therefore, must be imprisoned and controlled (I’ll admit, a bit of a stretch). Humanity, in its ever-present struggle for laziness and infinite-sigma…
Traveling Without Moving
At the tender age of 30 (the new 20?), I’ve had the opportunity to travel more than generations prior could have ever dreamed (I’m two continents short of the full set). My parent’s generation, while definitively embracing the ability to travel, still lacked the speed, ease and affordability of travel options that exist today. Increasing…
Not Who I Say I Am
Do you think that your social profile is an accurate representation of who you are? Sure, we can learn a thing or two about individuals by reading their profiles, however, to what degree are these content feeds an accurate representation of self and to what degree are they calculated, overly filtered bullshit? We’ve all done it…
Failure is Always an Option
“I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.” -Thomas Edison It takes a lot of internal strength to fail, or as Edison…
Forget Your Passion, Find Your Challenge!
“Be passionate about your job and you’ll never work another day in your life.” I call bullshit. Sure, this quote gives us that Hallmark warm and fuzzy feeling way down in the sub-cockles of our heart (which by the way, the word “cockles” is nothing more than an incorrect latin translation of the word chocleae,…
Why Can’t We Be Happy?
In the past two months, I have done a disturbing amount of introspection. I’ve gotten to know myself better than I ever wanted to. Through this process, I was attempting to find the core of what made me tick with the hope that I could answer a very simple yet extremely important question: Why can’t…
Mirror Mirror on the Wall
I’ve often been accused in life of being one of those do-as-I-say-no- as-I-do people, likely because I am. For the longest time, I preached to others about the importance of introspection, self-evaluation and taking time to think about your own life and the things that have happened to you. That said, I don’t think I…
Why Bother?
Why do we get out of bed in the morning? Other than the obvious typical answers – to pay rent, to stock up on vitamin D, to allow bedsores to subside – I, and many others like me, seldom take the time to really think this question through. If I’m being completely honest, I don’t…
A Rose By Any Other Name
Today, we’re going to play a little game. Every time I use a term that feels dirty (in that business way), you take a drink. It’s like the Reservoir Dogs game; every time someone swears, smokes or says a colour, knock one back. I used to shutter at the utterance of three simple letters: M-B-A…
Why is Everyone Afraid of Dating?
Here’s a crazy thought. Imagine you met someone through an online dating site. You read their profile and liked what you saw; they had all the makings of a good partner on paper, they seemed interesting, attractive and to have a lot in common with you. So, what the hell… you decide you’re going to…
Do I Have to Go to Work Today?
The frightening thing is that increasingly, the answer is becoming ‘no.’ With more and more people working from home each year, taking flex hours and even basing out of a home office… there may very soon be a day when the answer to this question is no. I recently read an article through CNN that…
Why Can’t Jobs Find Me?
Job hunting is an area very near and dear to my heart since, after an unfortunate economic climate and a revoked job offer upon my return from Thailand, I find myself back on the market. I, like so many others, find the job seeking process to be one that is painfully outdated and if I’m…
Is Business Sick?
This question is, I suppose, the premise to this entire blog. Why would one need a counselor if there was nothing wrong? If business is sick, should we even be concerned? Is there anything we can do to help or, like the common cold, should we just get some rest, eat chicken soup and mope…