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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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The sounds, hazards, and culture of driving in Chile and Sri Lanka
We go from Chile to Sri Lanka looking at the different driving norms and road culture. From using your hazards proactively to driving with your horn
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The "hazards" of driving in Chile
Every country has its driving norms and after driving 2,500 kilometres in Chile, I think I've figured out at least one that you might want to have in…
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The Colombo Traffic Symphonic Orchestra
What was it like to drive through the busy congested streets of Colombo, Sri Lanka? Let me take you on a "musical" journey. In some parts and times in…
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After thirty years on the web, have I actually learned anything?
History teaches us that everything repeats, including how we create, enable and drive technology. A look back on thirty years of dups.ca and what that…
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How deeply are engineers adopting AI in larger software teams?
Are the rates of developers adopting Agentic AI in coding tasks as high as people say or are leaders believing the hype when reality says otherwise?
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Episode 1 - Introduction to Tales under the cat tree
Where Dups introduces himself and Tales under the cat tree
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The Seductive Embrace of Efficiency
As we go to the polls around the world, we should consider politicians' desires to rule like the CEO of a company so that they can grant us the…
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Where glaciers ended - Kayaking around Jurmo, Finland
Discovering the remnants of extinct glaciers in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland by kayak
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Book Review - Napalm Hearts
My former co-editor at the student newspaper and amazing friend, Seamus, has published his first crime novel entitled Napalm Hearts.
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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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