If you live in Toronto, you might be familiar with this scene: You get on a TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) bus or streetcar. It’s insanely packed up front, but you think “Hey, I wonder if there’s more room further back…” so you start muttering “excuse me…pardon me…can I just…thanks…excuse me…” and squeezing your way through …
6 possible reasons why TTC riders won’t move to the back of the damn bus Read More »
No matter how good you are, throughout your life and career, you are going to meet people who are more talented or educated than you are. That doesn’t have to mean they’re going to be more successful than you are. You can do better than them. You just have to decide to. In many ways, …
Ten things that are more important than your talent or credentials Read More »
Everyone makes mistakes. Some slip-ups are just a little more public (and potentially career-ending) than others. My colleagues and I in content marketing – who frequently write about writing – often note that if you write a piece about the importance of proofreading your work, you’re almost guaranteed to leave a typo in it. The …
You really need an editor (humorous typos that professionals missed) Read More »
Have you ever wondered if your Uber driver has reached into your order and tasted your food? Of course you haven’t, because what kind of gross person would do that? Well guess what… you know where I’m going with this, right? 28% of food delivery drivers have taken food from an order It turns out …
A weird number of food delivery drivers have snacked on your food Read More »
Everyone wants to live a long and healthy life. I wanted to help you do that so I gathered information and research results from scientific studies all over the internet to find what you should do to live a life free from heart disease, cancer, and other illnesses that will kill you. Here’s what I …
Remember asking your teacher, “When am I ever going to use this?” as they tried to explain sign and cosine and other trigonometric functions to you in math class? Yeah, it turns out you were never going to use that. In fact, there are a great many things we get taught in school that are …
For the record, I am opposed to censorship and banning books. I do think that as parent – especially of very young children – you have a responsibility to make sure your kids are ready to understand and contextualize the information they are receiving. I remember reading a book of classic fairy tales to my …
Google recently released the top searched of the past 13 years that began with the words “how to…” We interpreted that as a list of the essential life skills that people didn’t know how to do. (I covered that story for Pursuit.ca.) One of the top ten on that list was, “How to make money…” …
A new study from the software company Adobe has determined exactly which phrases are annoying people the most in their work emails. While the results could be used as a cautionary guide of which expressions to avoid, I think the findings go deeper than that. The real message is that a lot of folks are …
Surprising new study reveals people don’t like passive aggressive jerks Read More »
Polish historian and political scientist Jerzy Targalski was being interviewed by a Dutch news program when his cat decided that Targalski’s ears looked super dirty and needed to be cleaned right then and there. So, he climbed on the guy and started washing his ears. Targalski did what any true professional would do and just …
Guy just acts normal while wearing a cat during a TV interview Read More »