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Ep. 9: Happy Canada Day / To James Bay and the Arctic Ocean
Happy Canada Day! This episode takes you on a journey to James Bay with journals I wrote on our drive there in 2008. Follow along on our mad cap drive…
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Canoeing with elders under the grand dams of Hydro-Quebec
Part 2/2 – In 2008 my friends and I spend a day canoeing near Fort George and have a tour of the giant reservoir complexes changing the environments of…
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To James Bay and the Arctic Ocean
Part 1/2 – For Canada Day 2008, two friends and I drove a few thousand kilometres to James Bay, part of Hudson Bay, in Northern Quebec. Follow our story
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Ep. 8: Entrepreneurial advice or lack thereof
Exploring what it means to take advice, ask for advice and what I learned about entrepreneurship by climbing mountains
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Three reasons to never take my advice. Ever.
"My advice to you is..." If you hear me start a sentence with that phrase, I give you permission to hit me over the head.
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How deeply are engineers adopting AI in larger software teams?
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Ep. 5: Fiction in the age of AI / Time travel to 1989
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Ep. 6: Finland's "The Shortcut" and my enlightened migration
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Ep. 7: Very Finnish midsummer tales
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Only stupid people start companies...
... or what I learned about entrepreneurship by climbing mountains, and why you should never climb a mountain or start a company alone.
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Ep. 7: Very Finnish midsummer tales
Hear a short story "The cottage on the shores of Yli-Kitka" in both Finnish and English and come journey with me to Finland's beautiful archipelago…
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The cottage on the shores of Yli-Kitka
A short story set in Finland's north near Kuusamo on the shores of lake Yli-Kitka.
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Mökki Yli-Kitkan rannalla
The Finnish version of "The cottage on the shores of Yli-Kitka", a short story set in Finland's north near Kuusamo.
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Ep. 6: Finland's "The Shortcut" and my enlightened migration
Listen now | An interview with the CEO of The Shortcut organization in Finland and recounting my own path to enlightened migration
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The three stages of enlightened migration
Taking the winding path to the summit of Sri Lanka's Adam's Peak and reaching a peace between my numerous cultures along the way.
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Ep. 5: Fiction in the age of AI / Time travel to 1989
When anyone can use ChatGPT to write a novel, will anyone be creating and reading new original novels written by humans? Why should we bother to…
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Fiction in the age of AI
When I started working on my fiction after decades of neglect, I wondered, "Why bother? AIs will get so good people wouldn't want to read my stories…
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The Nervous Nineties: Voyage through darkness into the black whirlpool
A short story written and published when was 14-years-old in 1989. Please don't judge me by this! It won 3rd prize in the Junior category of the South…
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Tales under the cat tree
Tales under the cat tree
Fiction, technology and business from a techie who seems to have had seven of his nine lives. Curiosity never hurt a cat... right?
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Projects
My Canada Project (2017)
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Travel Journals
Touring Asia (2004)
We climb Mt. Kinabalu, explore Thailand and my brother's wedding
Kilimanjaro Trek (2003)
Eight friends from Canada trek to the roof of Africa
Expedition Fishbait (2001)
Five friends explore the Broken Islands Group by kayak.

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