If you start at Waterfront Station and walk east on West Cordova Street, you pass a collection of bustling culinary establishments: Rogue Kitchen & Wetbar, Steamworks Brewing Co., Al Porto Ristorante and my favourite place in Vancouver to get a spicy chai latte, Buro Espresso Bar. Veer left onto Water Street and you have officially…
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Eight months after Jessie Adcock was named Vancouver’s first chief digital officer (CDO), she was speaking with PR executive Bridgitte Anderson on an episode of Cambridge House Live. Anderson had one question: “What is it that you do as the city’s first chief digital officer?” “I’ve been brought in specifically to champion the city’s digital…
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It’s surprising how much not having access to all the knowledge in the world in the palm of your hand affects you on a daily basis. When you’re smartphone free for two weeks, the inconveniences come slowly, and then all at once. Little inconveniences There’s never knowing what the weather forecast is. There’s no texting…
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“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
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“It can be hard to see opportunities on the horizon if you find yourself in an unpleasant chapter in your life.”
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“The people are who are going to be giving you good advice aren’t going to be charging you for it.”
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“It takes a mixture of luck, hard work, skill and the support of other people around you. That’s what tonight’s all about. It’s about the people that helped support us and get us here.”
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“You like whisky? You should have the Donald Draper,” said a dark-haired, cheery waitress. I called her establishment out on the real-life clickbait-iness of naming a cocktail after the suave and dapper fictional protagonist of, in my opinion, the best television series ever produced. “Trust me,” she insisted, “it is a favourite.” Would the ad man have…
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