Boston’s case illustrates the difficulty you’d have establishing a new startup hub this late in the game. If you wanted to create a startup hub by reproducing the way existing ones happened, the way to do it would be to establish a first-rate research university in a place so nice that rich people wanted to live there. [...]
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Concerning blogging, I was just thinking about the importance of establishing certain expectations and meeting them consistently… In the last day or two I’m having trouble getting up stamina for the big, synoptic, sustained posts I tend to write when I’m on a roll, and which I’m developing a kind of discipline for. I’m just going to jam a little and [...]
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Some people might argue with the claim I made in my last post (that London is not a cutting edge city… in fact I hope people will argue) by calling attention to research being done at UWO, etc. But there’s a difference between the presence of a few cutting edge elements vs cutting edge being a distinguising quality [...]
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We have no limits to what is possible, if we work together with a common goal and strengthened sense of purpose. We have the foundation in place to reach our potential, and more importantly, we have a passion and spirit that can lift this city to greater heights. That’s from Mayor Anne Marie DeCicco-Best’s State of [...]
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I’ve been trying to figure out who from my group of friends and “real life” acquaintances might want to start using Twitter. I got on it recently and I love it. (Actually, I tried it over a year ago and didn’t quite “get it” — not until after I’d been immersed more in the social [...]
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For 2009′s Edge Annual Question, John Brockman asked, “What will change everything?” The answers are diverse, but the most common type of response seems to relate to some kind of leap in intelligence — maybe a majority that range from education to artificial intelligence. As I read through it and thought about my own answer, I started to [...]
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I could try to call this ”philosophy” but I avoid using the word whenever possible. There are too many meanings I don’t want to associate with.
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I didn’t start out thinking this intellectual stuff is necessary, it just feels necessary. It’s just the way I am. Classifying and defining is just something I automatically do — always. It isn’t a basic need on the same level as food, sex & shelter. It’s even more basic – on the level of breathing, or maybe sleep is [...]
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Hey I finally caught up with the new millennium and got a digital camera, courtesy of my parents, for Christmas. I’ve been sort of an anti-picture person for the past few years, for no apparent reason, but blogging has made me want to add that visual element to my creative portfolio — though “portfolio” is maybe too [...]
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I love this “essay on idling,” by Mark Kingwell, in this weekend’s Globe and Mail. For those who don’t know, Kingwell is Canada’s cool philosophy professor: media darling, sometime columnist (including a stint as the token progressive for the National Post), he writes for a popular audience on wide-ranging subjects (politics, happiness, architecture, booze), and is still [...]
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