The life and ramblings of Canada's most innovative Technology leader
Why are Canadians (in tech) so risk averse? It comes off as a bit odd actually, we live in a country that is huge and has a ton of opportunities to branch out and do something amazing, yet we’re an
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Is an MBA useful in tech? Let me preface this by stating that this post relates to SMB (small and medium-sized #business – including startups) and not at all in the Enterprise, as those are two completely different beasts. In
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#Artificial intelligence is the future. Artificial intelligence is science fiction. Artificial intelligence is already part of our everyday lives. All those statements are true, it just depends on what flavor of AI you are referring to. Most of us are
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#Artificial intelligence is the future. Artificial intelligence is science fiction. Artificial intelligence is already part of our everyday lives. All those statements are true, it just depends on what flavor of AI you are referring to. Most of us are
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#Artificial intelligence is the future. Artificial intelligence is science fiction. Artificial intelligence is already part of our everyday lives. All those statements are true, it just depends on what flavor of AI you are referring to. Most of us are
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Are developers getting smarter or dumber? I personally didn’t start coding because it was a huge passion. I wanted to go down the road of building super cool things for NASA (or CSA – the Canadian Space Agency) and while
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The best decisions I’ve made in my career I have always had a bit of an edge, something super competitive in me that drove me to be better than my self of yesterday. It’s an unrelenting hunger that I use
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Learning (in tech) never stops In my quest to become a superstar in the tech world I feel like I stagnated at times, especially at learning in my early career (as evidenced in my posts regarding how Canada belongs at
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Gaining the experience to build data, ETL, ML and AI pipelines in the real world For years and years, I have been progressively building my way up to this. From the times early in my career where I was simply
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Growing a tech startup 30 employees in less than one year This is something that I have now done many times over in my personal career, being a very early engineer at many places that required my expertise, not only
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