This Toronto Life article about a 32-year-old who has managed to buy 10 homes in the city is very Toronto Life. At a time where many young people are struggling to afford housing, here is a millennial who has bought 10 of them (albeit with… Read More
What is happening in California right now is both sad and scary. I woke up to these photos in the New York Times. So I spent the morning reading up on wildfires and what causes them. I am sure many of you are thinking: Is climate… Read More
Proposition C will be on San Francisco’s ballots this November 6th, 2018. If approved by voters, the following additional taxes would be levied on businesses in order to create a dedicated fund to both support and prevent homelessness in the city: For businesses that pay… Read More
Earlier this week I deleted my Facebook account. If we were friends on the service and you can no longer find me, this is the reason why. Part of why I did this certainly had to do with privacy. I read Brian Acton’s (WhatsApp cofounder)… Read More
A friend of mine recently shared this Twitter thread with me. It is by Chaz Hutton. I didn’t know who Chaz was before I read the thread. But I now know that he draws things, sometimes for the New Yorker. Chaz’s Twitter thread covers the… Read More
In addition to email, phone, and text, we live in a world where you can also easily and directly connect with people on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Snapchat, Swarm, WhatsApp, Slack, as well as on many other platforms. As much as I love tech,… Read More
This morning Fred Wilson posted this chart on his blog: What is clear is that when it comes to US digital ad revenue, it’s the Google and Facebook show, followed by everyone else. Microsoft/LinkedIn is a distant third. Fred calls it “the digital advertising duopoly.” And… Read More
Elon Musk’s apparent distaste for public transit and random strangers prompted a Twitter battle last week. Though for the record, Musk later clarified that he loves trains, most subways and London buses. Transit planner Jarrett Walker retorted that Elon’s views are the “essence of elite projection”. What’s… Read More
“…the path to profit is to manufacture attention more cheaply than what you get paid for it.” –Ev Williams A big part of our economy is centered around attention. Some would argue we are living in a de facto attention economy. That is now our scarce… Read More
Twitter is currently experimenting with longer tweets: 280 characters instead of its famous 140. One of the reasons they are doing this (besides the obvious goal of getting people to tweet more) is because different languages require a different number of characters in order to… Read More
