I have heard from some of you that you don’t like it when I write about crypto and NFTs. This personal blog is supposed to be largely about city building after all. So today I thought I would write about crypto and NFTs. More specifically,… Read More
All posts tagged “happiness”
Delivering happiness
I was both surprised and saddened to learn about the death of Tony Hsieh this weekend. Forty-six years old is far too young. Though best known as a pioneer of e-commerce (he was previously CEO of Zappos) and for his brilliant/wacky management ideas, Tony was… Read More
The case for being a generalist
As many of you know, I am huge of Malcolm Gladwell. And one of the things that he has popularized through his writing is this idea that we all need to spend at least 10,000 hours specializing on someting in order to become truly exceptional… Read More
Positivity in life (The happy secret to better work)
https://embed-ssl.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work.html Earlier this week I watched the above TED talk called, The happy secret to better work. It’s only 12 minutes long. In it, Shawn Achor argues that we’ve got it all wrong and backwards when it comes to our happiness. We constantly set (moving) goals… Read More
Dimensioning pedestrian happiness
The area that stretches between the property line on one side of a street and the property line on the other side of a street is called a public right-of-way here in Toronto. It may be called something different in other cities and countries. In… Read More