Since moving into the city that I work in (I lived 40km outside the city previously) I have tried to walk to work every day. I’ve missed a few here and there but for the majority I’ve relied on my own two feet to get me to the office. I walk a little farther than most would (3.2km or 2.0 Miles one …

Today Jason Kottke posted a quick one paragrapher on the Web 2.0 conference. A line from the post struck me as quite intriguing:  •  “  •  “The sheer amount of supposed novelty being blasted at the audience is exhausting…everything is changing the world in a significant way.””  •  When I sat back …

For a number of reasons over the past few weeks this quote from Aldo Leopold’s Sand County Almanac keeps jumping into my head:  •  ““The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills not only because of their novelty, but because they represented complete freedom to make mistakes. The …

Those within large corporations have eagerly been spreading their operations around the globe to generate better profits from cheaper labour and decreasing shipping costs . A nice side effect for them has been the separation of the consumer from the production.  •  When a consumer is … read more »

Peter pointed out earlier some inconsistencies in my posts about corporations. On one hand I said that corporations can’t care about anything. On the other I said that corporations consist of the people in them. What Peter was getting at, I think, is that if a corporation is full of people and …

Corporations are structured like this(listed in order of power): Shareholders own the company. Shareholders appoint the board of directors. Board of Directors hire the executives. The Executives hire the staff.  •  Shareholders are the most powerful people within a corporation. Now, let's not get …

I work in a very small corporation. We have ten people. Sometimes though I'd swear there were eleven. There is this weird thing that happens once you start a corporation, no matter how small. You eventually start saying things like “it's not good for the company” and “It's the company's direction …

If you've read The Corporation, or have seen its sister film, you know that corporations (mainly large publicly traded firms) are legally constructed to pathologically pursue profit. What most common folk do not realize is that profit is the only end a corporation realizes. Goodness, fairness …

Yesterday while driving around downtown at 5:30PM I noticed a few people walking home from work. I saw a man in a suit, a lady who works at a cafe I frequent, and a few other normal folks with business type bags in hand. It was then that I noticed that people walking all look the same. There is …