Rod Phillips

@eventbrite your help centre sucks. There seems to be no way to contact anyone to sort out my issue. I ordered 3 tickets through the organizer under 1 email, and 2 more on the app under a different user name. No where can I find the first 3 tickets.

What drives me nuts about this is that if McDavid hadn’t 2 handed slashed Soucy, the whole incident would not have happened. Does McDavid fear any disciplinary action… of course not. sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/ca…?

It appears, if @TSN or @Sportsnet are to believed, there is only 1 team in the NHL playoffs. They allude to others, but it seems the only team that matters is the @NHLleafs_

I’m curious Pierre, doesn’t pollution need to be taxed. Climate change and its short and long term effects will have a similar impact on health and the economy as does heart disease, cancer, etc. I don’t hear you suggesting that nix taxation that ends up funding healthcare.

@profgalloway @karaswisher your comments on stresses that Americans feel that others don't is bang on. I'm Canadian and I don't fear my kids going to the mall, school, etc but the moment we think of travelling to the US, my stress increases.

One of my favourite things is to watch Swallows fly.

@awilkinson @2percentJazz2 Brilliant story. I to have spent many an hour in 2% Jazz, got to know Sam a bit. Well done @awilkinson

I started my company 16 years, 3 months, and 5 days ago. Today, it went public. But let's rewind for a second... 5,939 days ago, I was a barista at a small cafe called @2percentJazz2, in Victoria, Canada. I made $6.50 an hour. Two guys, Chris and Jeff, started coming into the cafe. They'd sit there all day drinking espresso and typing away on their laptops, using the wifi. After weeks of this, I asked them what they did for a living. Didn't they have jobs? They told me they were "web designers" and this — sitting on their laptops — was their job. As I dug in, they told me how it worked: They asked local businesses if they needed a website, then charged them a couple thousand bucks to make one. They could whip a website together in a few days, and each make $1,000. Simple. This blew my mind. And at that moment, I realized something: I wanted to be the guy drinking the espresso, not the one serving it. Chris and Jeff were clearly smart, but I knew some basic HTML and figured I could do the same. I decided to try it out. When I got off my shift, I took the bus over to a book store downtown and bought a book called 'Bulletproof Web Design' by Dan Cederholm (@simplebits) to hone my skills. Then, I googled "freelance web design jobs" and found a tech job board called Authentic Jobs made by this guy in Utah, @cameronmoll. There were hundreds of posts, mostly from startups in San Francisco, looking for freelance web designers. I decided to try to win one of these contracts, but I had a critical insight: Nobody wants to hire an 18-year-old barista to build their website. So, I decided I'd create a fake design agency. Using tricks from Dan Cederholm's book, I whipped together a slick looking site and called my "agency" MetaLab (after the tag in HTML). The website was very vague as to what exactly MetaLab did, who worked there, or where we were located. It also featured a cringe-inducing tagline "We Help People Make Cool Stuff." Like an email spammer, I started sending emails to every single web design job post I could find. I was met with crickets, until I got an email from a guy named Kavin Stewart (@kavinstewart). He worked at a startup called Offermatica in San Francisco and told me he needed an interface designed for a web app. I barely understood what a web app was, but I assured him I could do it. He proposed a $2,000 USD budget and my eyes went wide. This was more than I earned in a month, and the project was just a few days of work. I walked into the cafe the next day and quit my job. I told myself that if I could just make enough money to wake up whenever I wanted and comfortably make rent, I'd be good. The rest is history. But I slightly overshot. I still own MetaLab, but along the way me and my business partner @_Sparling_ started dozens of companies, then began buying wonderful businesses, including one (Dribbble) — amazingly — from Dan Cederholm, the designer whose book I bought when I first started. Today, Tiny went public, and as of this moment has a market capitalization of just under $800 million. I can't even begin to explain how mind boggling this is to me. This has not been a feat of entrepreneurial genius. My key skill has been choosing incredible people to work with, both internally and externally, and I wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who has worked at Tiny and our various companies over the years. And a special thanks to @simplebits, @cameronmoll, and @kavinstewart for helping with my first step😉 Watch for us on the TSX Venture Exchange under the ticker TINY (how cool is that ticker?). finance.yahoo.com/quote/TINY.V?p…

You it’s been 12 years since the @NHLBruins slashed and held their way to a Cup over the @Canucks and I still want to see them lose. PTSD I guess.

Soooooo close! Well played boys! #yyj was watching @VancityReynolds

Dear businesses consider your website or digital presence to be your source of truth for customers. Given@my experience today I will think twice about going to @originbakery in the future

Source of truth. This morning myself and 3 others had a frustrating moment. Based on the @originbakery website each of us changed their day to insure we got GF goods for NYE. We arrived only to find an 8.5x11 taped to the door saying they were closed.

How many edibles do you think @elonmusk has before he tweets?

@Wrexham_AFC Victoria, BC Canada

Where are you tuning in from today? 🌎 🔴⚪ #WxmAFC

@RaynaRambling @RussLoL @unclespeedo My apologies 😎

@RussLoL @unclespeedo @Rod_Phillips Turns out @Rod_Phillips is who convinced me to join twitter too.

Twitter was how I built a network in #YYJ and a career. Whether it was a TweetUp or a Twestival… this is how this new guy in #VictoriaBC connected with a community I’ve now had for 15 years. Sorry if that’s changing.

@rickygervais Outside?

Guess where I am.

@profgalloway Is that a kilt below the fold?

A thermonuclear move ‘n groove is going to happen if I have another Zacapa rocks. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #thedawg You’ve. been. warned.

It is hard to overstate how poorly the @Canucks are playing. Might as well turn the game off after the 2nd period.

@Jeremy_Baker King Charles?

@BoozeDonkey That’s a long haul to be away from family.

@Rod_Phillips Up in Prince Rupert for a 6 week deployment to cover staff shortages.

Wow.. Augtober is still going strong up here. Bug free mountain hiking. #optoutside #exploreBC