Remember my post from a few weeks ago about “planners on bikes getting coffee?” Well it happened. That’s the potential of blogging and Twitter. (I sold $TWTR too early.) Here is the selfie to prove it: Jason Thorne and I met up with Gil Meslin… Read More
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Morning routines
I often get asked: How the hell do you find time to write every day? The trick, for me at least, is to do it first thing in the morning. I get up early, prepare a bowl of cereal with fruit, make a single cup… Read More
More than just a coffee shop
Today’s blog post is coming to you live from Quantum Coffee at the corner of King and Spadina in Toronto. I’m sitting by the window (where I keep running into friends) in a beautiful space that used to be an ugly youth hostel. Nice work… Read More
Value creation, transparency, and authenticity
Ideas by Janet Kwan on 500px https://500px.com/embed.js I started writing this blog a year and 10 months ago. At that time, I had no real title for it (it was just called “Cities”) and I had no idea where it was going to take me. All… Read More
Being exemplary
Yesterday morning I had coffee with a good friend of mine and fellow city geek. We don’t connect nearly as often as I’d like, but when we do we always have great conversations about cities and about Toronto. One of the things he asked me… Read More