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There was never a universe where Flipper were going to become commercially successful. Even at their most accessible, they sounded like a band actively resisting the idea of popularity. Slow, ugly, repetitive, sarcastic, deliberately uncomfortable, and seemingly allergic to anything resembling conventional punk energy, Flipper made music that felt designed to clear rooms instead of…
There’s something strangely comforting about Storm the Gates. Of all the older metal bands still releasing basically the same record every few years, Venom might be the most consistent of them all. They are still cranking out songs about hell, war, Satan, evil, and destruction with the enthusiasm of a band half their age. It…
Ottawa-based Project Managers looking for a new role? Here you go: this week’s list of current opportunites. Definitely noticing a trend this week: lots of senior PM and leadership-level roles showing up locally, especially in construction, government, and client-facing delivery. Here are a few worth checking out 👇 Senior Sales Enablement Curriculum Manager — Barracuda…
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…