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Inauguration
I delayed actually launching this site for a full week, based on a strange, and undeserved, trepidation about the first post. I recently wrote a short essay on the results of the Public Service...
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To the Dogs or Whoever
I was asked. “To the Dogs or Whoever” is a Josh Ritter song, whom I believe is the best songwriter around these days. It’s from a fantastic album called The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter. In the...
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Polymaths, Part 2/2 – Skills We Need to Have Now
At least I cannot be accused of pandering to the masses on this blog. This will be an effort to distill relevant ideas from the last two posts and insert them – perhaps unnaturally, we will see – into...
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Imagine
I just finished reading Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer. It’s a great read, similar in style to Malcolm Gladwell or Dan Ariely, where a overarching narrative is build on smaller elements...
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Response to The Nineteenth Annual Report to the Prime Minister on the Public...
I look forward, every year, to reading the Clerk of the Privy Council’s Annual Report to the Prime Minister on the Public Service of Canada. It helps me feel a part of a the Public Service as an...
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Left and Leaving
I spend a lot of time wondering if I am wrong. Wrong about the time and money I’m putting into school, wrong about my career path, wrong about my political views. It’s more or less a daily exercise....
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The Year In Review
When it comes to coffee, I like rich, dark roasts. Or, at least, I thought I did. Then in 2007, I watched Malcolm Gladwell’s TED Talk when he noted the fact that while most people say they prefer a...
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Blog Renewal
It has been fun, but for the time being I’m scuttling To The Dogs Or Whoever. Rarely am I quite so content about giving up on something. For the foreseeable future, I’m going to be writing at...
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