Writer | Speaker | Project Leader
Walking in London (1992) by Concrete Blonde feels like the point where a really distinctive band starts to lose a bit of its center. Not all at once, and not disastrously, but enough that you notice it if you’ve spent time with what came before. By this point, Johnette Napolitano (vocals, bass), James Mankey (guitar),…
Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? (1997) by Harvey Danger is one of those albums that feels like it should have had a longer shadow. Instead, it got compressed into a single, era-defining moment, Flagpole Sitta, and quietly filed away. Spend time with the full record and a different story shows up. This is a…
Ottawa-based Project Managers looking for work? I’m seeing a steady stream of new roles locally right now, a mix of junior → senior, and a blend of on-site + remote. Here are a few worth checking out this week👇 Senior Technical Program Manager — Warner Bros. Discovery (Remote / Global)Senior role. Has been posted for…
The noise around AI has been insufferably incessant for a few years now. I’ve used the technology, mostly quietly. I’ve watched organizations reorganize themselves around this “new big thing” in real time. Teams expanding, teams shrinking, job descriptions getting rewritten, all orbiting this new gravitational centre called AI. From where I sit (as a Project…
Ottawa-based Project Managers looking for work? I’m seeing a steady stream of new roles locally right now—a mix of junior → senior, and a blend of on-site + remote. Here are a few worth checking out 👇 Junior IT Project Manager — Mitel (Ottawa, On-site)GREAT ENTRY POINThttps://lnkd.in/dWKAdGFT Advisor, Project Management (Screening Technology) — CATSA (Ottawa)https://lnkd.in/dMQzivqE…
It was 1985, just like in the song from Bowling for Soup, and we were all wondering who the new guy in Van Halen was going to be. It is very hard to explain the importance of this moment in our young lives. Mostly because, in the greater context of the planet, with all its…
When Your Efficiency Becomes Someone Else’s Problem I was teaching a project management class when someone shared a story that has stuck with me. An HR team had redesigned one of their internal processes, which was their prerogative. They had thought it through carefully. They reduced back-and-forth emails, clarified approvals, and eliminated a few bottlenecks…
AI Is Powerful. But Implementation Still Requires Project Management. I use AI almost every day. And no, I’m not a bot. It helped me edit this article, to be honest. It helps me structure my articles when I start to lose the plot, as well as making structural recommendations. Not as good as a bonafide…
For the first decade or so of my career, I was an accidental project manager. I worked as a technical writer, and then shifted into educational development. I started designing courses for our local college and learning materials for different audiences. The work was chock full of deadlines, personalities, creative tension, and constant coordination. I…
For someone like me, a Gen Xer who was 18 in 1991, Nirvana has always had a special place in my musical heart. Now I’m nearly 53 and it’s a little different of course. I remember the whole “grunge explosion” and how the pop landscape changed as a few distorted chords took over airwaves and…