A meeting yesterday saw me really excited at the prospect of learning new tricks from someone who has been perfecting his craft for more than twenty years. Everyone has many daily encounters with people who have dedicated their life to their work or art, but this one made me pause and think. The past months [...]
(… and ipod touch, and blackberry…) Bixi is the new community bike service here in Montreal. Lots of brewhaha around launchtime, but to me, the really annoying shortcoming of the system so far was not being able to check the status of stations on the go. According to a message I read on the facebook [...]
For almost all of the past decade I have spent working in Tech, IT, and the Web, I never really had a Job title. My roles and responsibilities varied from project to project, and I never felt like a single title would do my work justice. So it is with a certain feeling of excitement [...]
On the occasion of the first “Ada Lovelace Day”, which aims to highlight remarkable women in technology as potential role models for present and future generations of women, I started looking for the epitome of the “Renaissance Woman”. The “Renaissance Man” is an archetype personified by the likes of Leonardo Da Vinci: artists, craftsmen, engineers; [...]
For the past few years, I have been extremely lucky to work on some really wonderful projects, with millions of customers, a healthy user community, and a very good karma for the service they provide to the world. I’ve been paid to spend up to half of my time working on those projects. And yet, [...]