Sorry, Neo Was Right: The Podcast Is Dead and We Just Jacked Into a New World
The podcast had a good run. But something just walked in the door that does everything the informational podcast does — faster, deeper, and built entirely for you. Six weeks of experimenting with NotebookLM convinced me we are not watching an evolution. We are watching a replacement. Sorry, Neo was…
Sitting on a Gold Mine: How Canada Buried Its Fortune in Red Tape and Called It Progress
Canada sits on unimaginable natural wealth, yet projects take over a decade to clear environmental assessments. We have effectively replaced resource development with 131,754 federal regulations, driving billions in capital and top talent out of the country. Are we willing to cut the red tape and finally build our future?
The Locked Door: How Canada Got Stuck Waiting for Its Inheritance
Canada is a rich country making its own people feel poor. The generation that built everything — the homes, the institutions, the wealth — is still sitting at the head of the table. The gates are warm and glowing. The inheritance is real. The problem is nobody’s leaving anytime soon.
Canada at the Crossroads: A Nation With Every Advantage, Squandering Most of Them
Canada has every advantage a nation could ask for — and has been quietly squandering most of them. The math is unforgiving, Norway is watching, and seventy per cent of our best builders already left. But pressure has a way of clarifying what comfort obscures. The rewrite starts now. Hold…
The SaaSberg: The Half-Trillion Dollar Empire That Didn’t See It Coming
For two decades, SaaS companies built empires on a beautiful, locked-in logic: make switching painful, make customization limited, make implementation expensive. The lock-in was the product. Now AI has destroyed that calculus — and over half a trillion dollars in market value has quietly disappeared to prove it.
Fool’s Gold: How Modern Nations Forgot a 6,000-Year Lesson
There is a metal that has outlasted every empire that ever touched it. The Sumerians buried it with their dead. The Spanish murdered a civilization to possess it. And in 2016, Canada — a G7 nation of serious people making serious decisions — sold its last bar and walked away…
Dear Lululemon: We Wanted Olympic Glory. You Gave Us Oven Mitts.
Canada sent its athletes to Milano Cortina in a maroon quilted vest that converts into a pillow. A pillow. We’re a nation of backcountry skiers, Rocky Mountain hikers, and November ferry lineups — and Lululemon dressed us like a Willy Wonka fever dream. We deserve better. We always did.
The Ice-Cold Truth About Greenland: Why America Needs What Denmark Can’t Protect
Denmark cannot defend Greenland’s 2.16 million square kilometers with 25 warships while China and Russia circle the Arctic. The $100,000 offer insults Greenlanders; $250,000 per person transforms lives for $14.25 billion—less than 2% of annual U.S. defense spending. America secures the free world. This is the bargain of the century.
The Spectrum of the Human Soul: A Meditation on Good and Evil in History
History reveals no purely good or evil humans—only flawed beings capable of both light and darkness. From Gandhi’s racism to Hitler’s childhood abuse, the spectrum of morality challenges our assumptions. Our choice: recognize shared humanity and love our neighbors, or risk repeating history’s darkest chapters through dehumanization and cruelty.
So You Think You’re Empathetic? Think Again.
Most people confuse sympathy with empathy—standing at the edge versus climbing into the hole. Empathy means feeling into someone’s experience, not just feeling for them from a distance. It’s costly, vulnerable, and rare. This isn’t about being nice. It’s about genuine connection that transforms both giver and receiver.
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Notes Beyond the Map 