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04/14/2025

New blog post! "More Maintenance, Less Repair"

More Maintenance, Less Repair Published on April 14, 2025 • People Most people would define “maintenance” as “fixing stuff that’s broken”. If you told them that that’s “repair” and that maintenance is different, they’d reply that you should get your head out of the dictionary and...

04/08/2025

New blog post! "Glass Lake - A Short Story"

This week is a short story about an off-grid homesteader in the near future. The various technical and other odd bits I used are all either real things or will be very soon.

03/31/2025

New blog post! "RoboBoss Has Approved Your Timesheet"

03/24/2025

New blog post! "What is Money Series - Part 4 - What Are Crypto & CBDCs?"

Welcome to part 4, the final entry in the What is Money series. We’re capping it off with “crypto” and CBDCs.

03/17/2025

New blog post! "Which Disney Princess Are You (in the Workplace)?"

Millennials remember the era of Buzzfeed quizzes with fondness, and some may even describe it as identity or culture shaping. People have always loved these miniature personality tests, and while Buzzfeed may no longer be in its heyday, the popularity of these dinner-table icebreakers has transcend

03/10/2025

New blog post, #3 in this series! "What is Money Series - Part 3 - What is Bitcoin?"

Welcome to part 3 of the “What is Money?” series! So far we’ve covered the base concepts of money and money as a system in part 1, and the Canadian Dollar in part 2. Today we’re going to talk about a relatively new system of money, Bitcoin!

03/03/2025

New blog post! "Fear & Respect in the Workplace"

Minimum wage has been a hot topic as far back as I can remember. If you’re an employer it can feel like government needlessly meddling in the free market, while for employees it feels like its never high enough to make a difference. This is especially true where oversaturated labour markets are co...

02/24/2025

Between vacation and getting sick upon return I’ve been gone for a while, but this week I’m back with Part 2 of the “What is Money?” series!

This was one of the most difficult articles I’ve written as every new detail I learned about our money systems filled me with ✨unending rage✨ but I wanted to maintain professionalism and stick to the facts as much as possible. I’ll let you form your own opinions on how broken things are, and always have been.

In part 1 of this series we overviewed the history of money and as a global concept. Now that we have a base understanding of what money is we can get into detail about the Canadian Dollar. Why the Canadian Dollar specifically? One of the inspirations for this series was realizing how much the perva

01/27/2025

New blog post! "Localizing Your Minimum Wage"

Minimum wage has been a hot topic as far back as I can remember. If you’re an employer it can feel like government needlessly meddling in the free market, while for employees it feels like its never high enough to make a difference. This is especially true where oversaturated labour markets are co...

01/21/2025

New blog post! First in a new series! "What is Money Series - Part 1 - What is Money?"

“What is money?” sounds like a bit of a silly question. You’d probably hold up some cash or maybe flash your debit card. But I challenge you with this: imagine a 5-year-old asking you this question. How would you answer? If you showed them a $20 bill, they might respond with, “I know that’...