Beyond the Rhetoric

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” I’ve really hesitated to repeat anyone that I’ve already highlighted in a previous edition of Sunday Snippet, but when Emmet Gibney shared the quote above on Facebook, [...]

It probably wouldn’t be fair to say that I dislike shopping. It’s probably a little more accurate to say that I dislike shopping (and “browsing”) in the real world. Allow me to explain. There are many people out there who enjoy going to the mall. They go without any real purpose in mind; the goal [...]

It’s one thing to ensure your writing has perfect grammar and spelling. It’s another skill altogether to ensure that your writing is compelling, captivating, and informative. That’s a much tougher task, because you need to capture your readers’ attention and retain that attention throughout what you want to say. In the past, I’ve discussed such [...]

In case you haven’t noticed, I spend a lot of my time on the Internet. Part of it is for work and part of it is for leisure. That serves as the rough theme for this week’s roundup, though I’ve included a couple of posts that have much less to do with the online life. [...]

A world class city like Vancouver certainly has a lot to offer to its visitors, but there really is no way that you can really experience it all in just one day. This is true of many other major cities, like New York or Tokyo, but it got me thinking: if someone came to visit [...]