In my old age, I seem to remain forever curious about my earliest years. Why? Those early experiences continue to impact me. Those formative years installed some pretty strong habits, positive and not so positive, courtesy of myelin. Understanding Myelin Myelin is a fatty substance that wraps around nerve fibers in the brain, acting like […]
The Role of Myelin: Why Repetition Matters in Conflict Resolution Training
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We, the Data – Human Rights in the Digital Age
December 21, 2024 by · Leave a Comment
This year’s winner of the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy was Wendy H. Wong’s book, We, The Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. The Winner We, The Data is an eye-opening, gripping look at the ways in which humanity is being codified, monitored, and tracked at alarming speed and intensity — in largely unaccountable […]
Emotions are data: Respond to conflict with emotional intelligence
November 26, 2024 by · Leave a Comment
You’re at a party. You don’t know many people at the party. You notice the emotion of discomfort as your stomach clenches and your breathing gets constricted. Your mind labels that as feeling awkward. Yet, someone else, at that same party, with those same emotional bodily sensations, might label the experience as exciting because they get […]
How Canada should negotiate with the new Trump administration
November 12, 2024 by · Leave a Comment
With Trump soon to be back in power, Canada, my home country, needs to focus on the opportunities, not our worst fears. That’s the key message in an opinion piece in last Saturday’s Globe and Mail, “Taking control of our relationship with Trump”. The article was co-authored by Janice Gross Stein (Belzberg Professor of Conflict […]
AI product demo: How Google’s NotebookLM helps manage complex information
November 8, 2024 by · Leave a Comment
Google calls NotebookLM an “AI-powered research and writing assistant”. It’s more than that. It “helps users understand complex information by instantly becoming an expert on uploaded sources.” You can upload various types of files to NotebookLM, give it an ask, and watch it “generate” … Focused on AI, I wanted NotebookLM to intersect the big […]
