Why Students Don’t Start
I bought some web hosting this week, hosted my blog, threw up the UWO Debate website and I’ll put up some other projects that I’m working on over the course of the year. Hosting is dirt cheap, I probably spend more in one week socializing with friends than I did for two years of web [...]
Read moreDon’t be afraid to experiment!
Malcolm is a true inspiration for the Canadian people and especially last Thursday afternoon for the Ottawa Community. I really enjoyed the Q & A and many people in the audience had the chance to email or use twitter to send in their questions! Yes! Many of us had their crackberries and iPhone turned on [...]
Read moreMalcolm Gladwell at the NAC
Some days are just good. Today was one of them. I started off my day at Zone5ive event on 50 Ideas for using LinkedIn and Twitter for business. And after that I got to see Malcolm Gladwell speak at the NAC brought to us by the United Way (and then to link the first and [...]
Read moreMalcolm Gladwell @ The National Arts Centre Ottawa
Among the many things he talked about tonight, one that struck out the most to me was his reply to a question posed by the host that if the solution to a problem is so simple and is staring us in the face that why don’t we just do it? In his opinion, a solution staring in the face could still be very difficult to accomplish and an individual effort for a collective good is what is required to constitute a progressive society.
Read moreA Day of Inspiration
First, zone5 at lunch and then Malcolm Gladwell this evening. If attending that combination of events doesn’t inspire or motivate you to get off your butt and start doing something to improve yourself, I am not sure what will.
Read moreMalcolm Gladwell @ the NAC June 11th 2009
As you might now, TBridge started a book club and the first book we read was Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. A week after our review, Stephen Daze comes in during our weekly meeting announcing that Malcolm Gladwell will be at the NAC June 11th and since we had all just read [...]
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