Christmas Uncheer!

So far…so good: it’s November 29 and I haven’t encountered Do They Know It’s Christmas?…yet.

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RE: Your Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to you wacky Americans!!!

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You Are Capable.

You are capable of making art.

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Recommended Reading: Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
By Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir

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Press: The Product 10 with Sammy Younan

So as I wrote before I got to be a model for my profile in Product Magazine. Surreal.

And now you can read The Product 10 with Sammy Younan:
http://producttoronto.com/2013/11/product-10-sammy-younan/

How I answered the most underrated movie question…clearly I’m one of those who can kill a game show at home but under pressure folds up faster than a pop up tent pitched by a lousy boy scout suburbanite. Bonus…feel free to enjoy the playlist as you go to work, beat back White Christmas for a couple more days!

NewMusic Ten Playlist #1

Check this out…NewMusic Ten has teamed up with Indie Minded like a fresh booming Voltron to deliver this spectacular playlist. It’s a mad beautiful range of music…from the soulful Basia Bulat, to Brooklyn’s Firehorse to the infectious Lucius and so much more:

NewMusic Ten Playlist #1!

Get Busy! Get Down! Get Going…

Sammy
NewMusic Ten

Freedom vs Gym Class

Remember that infamous book from years back All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten? Yeah well the truth is if we could all write a book together, Wikipedia style it’d be All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Gym Class. It’s Gym Class where you get saddled with inferior paradigms like Shirts vs Skins (really us vs them…I coulda gone for this had it been no pants vs pants, though), winners and losers etc. That’s great for sports because there are clearly defined rules and somebody’s keeping score…in the real world, it’s far to messy for such naive simplicity.

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Attitude of Gratitude

Yo! Just want to tip my cap in thanks for you reading my strange status updates…hobo like mumblings.

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Better Than The Space Race

It’s that time of year where JFK shows up in all kinds of tv specials. I’m always struck by the Space Race…the quest for the Moon. Out of that whole race we got all kinds of technology and a Tom Hanks movie with pithy inspirations.

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Father & Son Crack

One overlooked positive of having a mayor on crack? Sweet father and son moments.

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