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There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be a Very Small Company For most of business history, scale required people. Want marketing? Hire marketers. Want accounting? Build a finance function. Need customer support? Hire support staff. Need design? Hire a designer. Need research? Hire analysts. Need software? Hire developers. Need administration? Hire assistants. This

Success Used to Be Easier to Recognize There was a time when financial success had a fairly obvious uniform. Large house. Luxury vehicle. Expensive watch. A corner office. Business-class flights. Perhaps a golf membership that was mentioned slightly more often than necessary. The idea was simple: if you were doing well financially, people should be

We Have Reached the Interesting Part of the AI Revolution For the first few years of the modern artificial-intelligence boom, much of the conversation sounded surprisingly similar. AI will change everything. AI will eliminate jobs. AI will create jobs. AI will transform business. AI will write everything. AI will code everything. AI will probably make

Life Is Mostly Decisions Disguised as Days Where should I work? Should I leave? Should I buy? Should I invest? Should I sell? Should I start? Should I wait? Should I reply? Should I follow up? Should I say yes? Should I say no? By lunchtime, the average adult has made enough small decisions to

Canada Has an Interesting Habit of Underestimating Itself When Canadians discuss technology, the conversation often includes a comparison with somewhere else. Silicon Valley. New York. London. Singapore. Israel. China. We ask why Canada cannot build exactly what another ecosystem built. But perhaps that is the wrong ambition. Canada does not need to become a colder

We Have Become Very Good at Looking Wealthy Modern society has developed an interesting relationship with money. Wealth used to be private. Now it often has a social-media strategy. A new car gets photographed. A vacation gets documented. A luxury purchase may receive an unboxing video more detailed than some corporate annual reports. Success has

Careers Are Getting Longer While Skills Are Getting Older Faster That is an interesting combination. A professional career can last forty years. A technical skill may become partially outdated in five. A software platform can change in months. Entire industries can be restructured in a decade. The traditional career strategy was relatively simple: Study. Graduate.

Somewhere Along the Way, We Started Treating Consistency as a Moral Obligation “What do you want to be when you grow up?” It is a strange question to ask a child. Most adults still do not have a final answer. Yet society often expects us to choose an identity early and defend it forever. You

Many Careers Reward Having the Answer. Leadership Rewards Something Else. School teaches us to get the answer right. Early careers often reward expertise. You become valuable because you know something. You can solve the spreadsheet. Fix the design. Explain the regulation. Close the deal. Write the code. Prepare the analysis. Then something strange happens. You

Canada Does Not Need to Become Silicon Valley Whenever people discuss technology leadership, the conversation often turns into imitation. How can Toronto become Silicon Valley? How can Vancouver become the next San Francisco? How can Waterloo create more billion-dollar technology companies? These are useful questions, but they may overlook Canada’s strongest opportunity. Canada does not