This year at silverorange, the Web design and development company where I work, we welcomed Clare Raspopow as CEO of silverorange. Clare is the third person to take on the CEO role in our 24-year history, and the first who was not among the original founding partners in 1999.

Clare has been in the role since January. The nice benefit of making our public announcement after six months is that I already know (though I was always confident) that we found the right person.

Welcome Clare, and thanks to Isa, who did the job so well for the past 8 years.

While running a company for over two decades and successfully transitioning the leadership is a significant accomplishment, I’m also proud of the term we coined for this transition: The Clareification. Naming things is hard.

This explanation of the Monty Hall Problem by Lukas Mathis is the first that I’ve ever been able to understand intuitively.

People say it’s healthy to seek out change and new experiences in life. I’ve found that if you just stay in place long enough, you might just find that your favourite podcast changes their theme music. Voila, growth!

If the 1987 song Moonlight Desires by Gowan (YouTube) had been a track on Peter Gabriel’s 1986 album So, it would be held in as high regard as anything else on that album.

When you move a meeting “forward” (or “ahead”), or “back”, you realize that some of us see time as something that washes over us, and others see time as something one moves through.

So, the reason I missed your Zoom call is because we have a fundamentally different understanding of how we relate to the universe.

I’ve got an idea for a new (completely made-up) bit of Canadian rumour/conspiracy:

Margaret Trudeau is Enid.

The question I ask any professional or contractor I’ve hired is: “Any surprises?“

Asking “How’s it going?” can get an understandably hollow “Good” response. What I really want to know is: What have you learned since you started the work that you didn’t know before you began?

I’ve found this question helpful in my own work as a Web designer and all-around person-in-a-small-business.

Keeping up the traditions set by his mother, King Charles III will serve as king for 70 years, until he is 145 years old in the year 2093.

With all of the coronation proceedings on the news today, my kids asked me:

“What would you do if you were king?”

Without putting any real thought into it, I made the following declarations:

1. Give the property of the crown back to indigenous peoples.
2. Set a side one nice cottage and a few priceless jewels for myself I can sell to buy a fancy guitar This is what I would do, not what I should do.
3. Dissolve the monarchy.