Japman Bajaj

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 […]

Talk about sub­lim­i­nal mes­sag­ing.
Oddly enough, in my daily recap to the day, I con­tin­u­ously saw reminders to never give up, that per­sis­tence is the single-most impor­tant trait for an entre­pre­neur and a human being.
This isn’t a rev­o­lu­tion­ary notion. Don’t give up. For most of us, our par­ents tried to indoc­tri­nate us with this very phi­los­o­phy from […]

Karen, this one’s for you. (Folks, fol­low Karen on twit­ter. She’s one of the most inspir­ing peo­ple in my Google Reader)
Not to say that this is the only true per­sonal devel­op­ment strat­egy. But for me, it’s the most rel­e­vant.
If you think you need to improve in a cer­tain area of your per­son­al­ity or life, the […]

A fas­ci­nat­ing video from The 99% Con­fer­ence.
Cheryl Dorsey, an investor in social entre­pre­neurs, shares her analy­sis of the most suc­cess­ful social entre­pre­neurs. She talks about what it takes for social change to occur and the kind of peo­ple that can make it hap­pen, and which resources they are able to tap into to affect social […]

Back in the Lit­tle City! Faced a week of “you’re from where? what’s Ottawa?” from dozens of Big City Amer­i­cans. Can’t say I’m sur­prised! It gave me the chance to talk about my town a bit more!
For those of you who didn’t catch my last blog post, I went away for about 10 days to […]