MichaelCayley

Hey #Ottawa I am looking for a single ticket for the Bruce #Springsteen show Nov 9 at Canadian Tire Centre.

Wow! New owner Michael Andlauer throwing himself in as superfan #1 #GoSensGo

After 25 years, I cancelled my subscription to @TheEconomist because on September 5 they charged my card CA$484.68 renewal fee without authorization & after admitting this was illegal, they refused to offer me the best price on the market to continue being a customer.

Do you remember when you didn't need to pay to edit a tweet? 😠 #twitter

Do you remember when you joined #TWITTTER? I do! #MyTWITTERAnniversary Do you remember the sense of community? Transparency? Potential? Do you remember feeling good about using this platform?

@ambermac Willingness of gov or gov concession business (banking, Telco in CDN) employees to pay extra taxes may be useful virtue signalling but it is not the point is it? If you over tax investment gains you kill investment, productivity: the part of the tax base that keeps the gov afloat

I suspect this sentiment is more common than we hear. As someone who grew up among many family members who struggled financially, I am more than happy to be in a position now where if I pay a little more it can be helpful to those who can't. This shouldn't be hugely controversial...as my friend @mohamadfakih8 says, it's just kinder capitalism 🇨🇦.

@SunGarrioch I also have two very good used cars that have only been driven by a little old lady.

Staios says Korpisalo and Forsberg are better than what their numbers showed. Said they both worked hard, but concedes neither has had the type of year the club expected #Sens

@ReamBraden financialpost.com/opinion/israel…

@ReamBraden Government to listen. octiestudy.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/can…

Hot takes on what Toronto needs to be a viable tech ecosystem: - way more tech events after hours. this is part of what makes sf special. New demos, 535, and Vclub are great starts to recurring events but need more - startups need to raise more and hire less. Focus on paying more, increase talent density, import from the US or retain great CDN talent. Raise and charge USD, pay high CAD salaries that give competitive QoL - VCs need to push startups to build for scalability and ambition, not early revenue/markups. Building community/networks/ecosystem/platforms are defensible moats that accrue tons of value but take time to build. Early revenue CAN be bad if it’s too early a focus - Product design. Canadian startups largely haven’t learned that product design and brand design gives tremendous leverage. One designer can make your co look 10x the size and calibre, attracting larger customers, better talent, and capital - IMO we need CDN tech to consolidate in Toronto. Too small a national ecosystem to be split across wide geography. Push everyone to be 15 mins or less from the entertainment district. Will allow for more talent cross pollination - More back to the office. Not every day, but we need more grit in our tech ecosystem to create large outcomes for everyone. 1-2days/week IMO is the right average. - global warming to make Toronto more livable in winters. This one seems taken care of already. (This is a partial joke) - we need to admit that TO is *far* behind. Building here is not advantageous for most venture backed CO’s. it is a complicated trade off of pro’s and cons. TO could get there, but first step of solving problems is acknowledging they are there. Biggest thing in my eyes is talent - need to retain the talent we produce, turn those early wins into talent that is recycled into the ecosystem. Key to a lot of this is focusing on density IMO. For most part we do not build great software products imo, we build sales driven orgs that don’t hit scale and later get competed away - lastly, on culture, we need to get comfortable with departing from Canadian normality. To be Canadian is to be comfortable, not great. We are never #1, we’re nice. We have a tighter normal distribution of wealth and outcomes which promotes equality but discourages long tail outcomes. I love living in Canada, because of this, but don’t like working here. This focus on being comfortable is in pure opposition to the VC driven model of tech. VC is driven by tails, not normal distribution outcomes. To build here we need to get comfortable with not being nice, playing to win, and working really *really* hard. It’s not muskoka chairs, it’s late nights and weekends. We’re nice and we’re comfortable. Startups are not. We need our startups to get comfortable with leaving our identities at home, and being more blunt/aggressive about the realities of hard work at the office. Or, Canada needs to admit it’s a tech ecosystem not driven by venture. That’s cool too and would work. But it’s a different game with different focuses and outcomes, and we should be comfortable with that. Touting venture backed startups as our North Star without changing the culture does not align and leads to middling outcomes. Go 🇨🇦

To the person that read my email 88 times without replying: what life choices led you become this kind of monster?

@DerekjAndersen @StartupGrind The garage should be reincorporated, if only in name. A Grind Garage for the Directors!?

Thank you to everyone who has attended @StartupGrind Global over the past 10 years. It has been an incredible journey, and I am grateful for the opportunity to be part of it. Some thoughts below on what the event means to me. blog.startupgrind.com/how-we-created…

@davidfrum Struggling with Stage 4 lung cancer. We lost her father the Hon Alan Redway on Jan 4 & her sister on Feb 8. Thank you for sharing your grief. You are not alone. Condolences to you and your family.

@davidfrum David - perhaps you will remember me. I worked for your father for a short time at Westgate in Ottawa and you and I have bumped into each other in airports and at La Cave in Paris. I believe your wife and daughter were with you. I write to share that my wife Andrea is ... 1/2

My wife Danielle and I lost our beloved daughter Miranda on February 16. Miranda died at age 32 of complications from a 2019 brain tumor operation. The funeral was held in Toronto on February 21 and can be viewed here. benjaminsparkmemorialchapel.ca/ServiceDetails…

@Laskinator2 @Bridgehead Even if it is busy - rents have dropped and if the landlord was not willing to renew lease at much lower rents, bye bye

@mikeminer Sorry to hear this Mike. You will stick the landing but no doubt hard change to go through.

What an absolute joke. Let’s take away all the fun we can from kids. The last thing we want them doing is having fun outside. More screen time for everyone.

@TimCBaines Branstromm out, Kleven in?

Parker Kelly's path to the #NHL and #Ottawa #Senators was playing a 200-foot game ... Thomas Chabot wears non-contact jersey and could return soon ... Artem Zub misses practice ... Claude Giroux talks about penalty. ottawasun.com/sports/hockey/…

Six deaths now reported in cantaloupe salmonella outbreak #Echobox=1702756727" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ottawacitizen.com/pmn/news-pmn/c…

@DimesandSens Would someone please ask and AI to create a photo collage of all of the NHL coaches recent and current and then rank the photos in terms of inspiring image vs actual performance on the ice? #sens #nhl #nhlstats

Rumour has it Steve Staios will consider Jay Woodcroft as next Sens head coach.