Archive for March, 2007

Are Canadian Entrepreneurs Risk Averse?

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

I’ve always said that Canadians are essentially more risk-averse than our American counterparts. I’m not going to do the Canadian thing and say this in a “sh*t sandwich” (a piece of bad news sandwiched between two good things) - it’s a failing of Canadian culture. We look at the US and say “oh, there’s no [...]

Shift Happens: An Exercise in Imagination

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

In Fall, 2006, Karl Fisch - a teacher at Arapahoe Highschool in Centennial, Colorado - put together a PowerPoint presentation at the request of the school’s administration to show at a faculty meeting. The presentation was supposed to update the school on the state of technology in the school and how it is changing the [...]

Perpetual Motion Policy

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

(Originally posted on policy.ca on October 23, 2006)
Policy.ca tried to get blogging going on their website last year and I was one of the few bloggers that posted there. This article was the first policy blog article to feature on the site but unfortunately the policy.ca blog was shortlived. I wanted to re-post this article [...]