Monthly Archives: March 2016

just-shower-thoughts: In the USA, it’s 100x cheaper to take an Uber to the hospital instead of an ambulance. In 1 case in Quebec at Mont Tremblant, the ambulance refused to take a badly injured skier to the hospital without first charging his credit card hundreds of dollars in fees… and the ski hill had him […]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsRzknK5_xA?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Chris Long Talks about Conrad Construction [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T8vw5DvRzc?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=540&h=304] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvUYjKUVcno?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=540&h=304] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHOfbI-nos0?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=540&h=304] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BflKLK0lTpk?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=540&h=304] @ profbruce (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Spectacular Kew 3 Home Renovation By Canny Contemporary Architects homestratosphere: Gallery featuring images of the Kew 3 home renovation project by Canny Contemporary Architects. cool images

The NCC is asking citizens to submit their big ideas to make Ottawa a more inspiring G7 capital city. Here is Prof Bruce’s big idea for a national boardwalk, one that would be the longest in the world (surpassing current record-holder Atlantic City) and link the provinces of Ontario and Quebec as well as major […]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvjVwlpe6Ek?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Nimby Speech by Chip (Will Arnett) in Flaked Chip (played by Will Arnett in the Netflix series Flaked) comes to his Venice (Calif) neighborhood council meeting, at first, he thinks, to oppose a new infill project (a hotel). He represents a BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything) cause named “SaVenice”, as in […]

Bloomberg Businessweek (Feb 8-14, 2016) reports: Atlantic City has seen its tax base, neighborhoods, and finances decay for years. New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie interrupted his presidential campaigning in New Hampshire and returned to his home state on Jan. 26 to announce a solution for keeping the city out of bankruptcy: a state takeover. […]

Execution Counts Here are two dozen things you can do to improve your ability to execute: 1. narrow your focus/identify priorities/remember to deal with urgent and important matters first, urgent but unimportant, last/manage your time efficiently/decide what NOT TO DO/build a model of your business/organization/product/service and make sure you have a spreadsheet analysis of what […]

[Guest post by Brian Dagenais, Dagenais Properties founder] The following is a scenario that is cropping up more and more often with my investors and with those who have recently reached out to me asking for input on potential real estate or business deals. I thought it might be helpful to others to put my […]