Japman Bajaj

I’m a big fan of suc­cess­ful entre­pre­neurs who visit schools and play a big role in the entre­pre­neur­ship classes. I recently watched this video of Josh James going back to Brigham Young and shar­ing some insights. Here are some of the tid­bits I took out of it:
Josh dropped out of school, but took the most out […]

As a cre­ative per­son with an embar­rass­ing set of art and design skills, let me be the first to say that I was very excited as well as quite intim­i­dated by this morning’s talk at Social Media Break­fast. The word “Design” is usu­ally some­thing I stiffen up at… It makes me a lii­i­it­tle ner­vous, despite […]

Okay Okay, not try­ing to be mor­bid. Just try­ing to get every­one to reflect a tiny bit. You know that day’s gonna come any­ways. We’ve prob­a­bly heard of the phe­nom­e­non of peo­ple hav­ing death par­ties before they actu­ally die, in order to be a part of the cel­e­bra­tion of their life.
Why don’t we try somthing a […]

You may know that for the past few years, I’ve been par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Stroll for Liver, an event by the Cana­dian Liver Foun­da­tion that began in Ottawa after the unex­pected death of a close friend’s cousin in 2005.
At the time, Trisha Nag­pal was 18 years old — not to men­tion, a pop­u­lar youth leader and […]

A recap of #GenY­OTT 4.5 on June 3rd 2010

Gold

I’m kinda annoyed!
So I’m hang­ing out on Slash­dot right now, and I saw this head­line: Black­Berry Pre­dicted a Cen­tury Ago By Nikola Tesla
Okay. A cen­tury ago? So basi­cally, the guy shared some psy­chotic ideas, and now we’re in mar­vel at his “prophetic abil­i­ties”? Not a CHANCE. I woulda been impressed if he said it would […]

Every year, I make a pact at play­off time — pro­vid­ing, of course, that the Sens make it — that I will wear a piece of Ottawa Sen­a­tors cloth­ing each and every day that the Sen­a­tors remain in the play­offs. My car is con­sis­tently dec­o­rated with flags, and I wear my pas­sion on my sleeve […]

I had the great plea­sure, with the gra­cious help of Jen But­son and Brian Alk­er­ton, to host Scott Strat­ten, aka UnMar­ket­ing this past Fri­day.
The event brought together Ottawa’s Twit­ter com­mu­nity to meet Scott, one of Twitter’s most influ­en­tial tweet­ers, and a social media conois­seur who speaks at events all around the con­ti­nent. Most recently, Scott […]

Dear Microsoft Hot­mail,
I typ­i­cally do live off the virtue that if you don’t have any­thing nice to say, don’t say any­thing at all, but I feel the nicest thing I can do for you is to tell you just how much you suck. You suck so badly. The one good thing I can say about […]