Job Jar is looking for alpha testers

By On June 6, 2013 · Leave a Comment

In the software development lifecycle, the alpha stage is when you have your minimal viable product (MVP) and are ready for testing. This means things will likely not work, and you will find bugs. If you like the idea of the project, it is very valuable to the development team to get feedback of these bugs, [...]

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Electoral Reform

By On April 10, 2013 · 3 Comments

Dear Elections BC;

As we’re about to head into another voting period in British Columbia, I wonder how long it will be until we see electoral reform. Since I’ve been legally able to vote (almost 20 years now),  I’ve seen a large number of Canadians choose not to take part in the election process.  Many [...]

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100 pushups

By On April 8, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Have you ever wondered what it would take to do 100 pushups? The folks at onehundredpushups.com have developed a 6 week program to help you achieve that goal. I first came across this site a couple years ago, and as I passed the URL around asking if anyone had tried it, several friends and [...]

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Thinking and succeeding as a Modern Business

By On March 26, 2013 · Leave a Comment

I often consult one-on-one with entrepreneurs, but recently I had the opportunity to speak to a room full of leaders in non-profit and social enterprise.  Discussion that evolved from my presentation led me to realize that non-profit leaders and entrepreneurs face many of the same issues; most notably they don’t think with the attitude of [...]

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Big day for bitcoins!

By On March 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment

If you’ve never heard of bitcoins, they are a decentralized digital currency based on an open-source, peer-to-peer internet protocol. It was introduced by a pseudonymous developer named Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009.

Today was a big day for bitcoins for two reasons; the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released the US Treasury [...]

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