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            <title><![CDATA[What are you working on?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2022 20:07:16 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2022-03-30T20:10:39.025Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 2020 when the world stopped in March, I spent the next three months looking for something to work on.</p><p>Everything I had been working on until that point was directly affected by the Pandemic.</p><p>I was helping Strangelove Cafe build a subscription program for unlimited coffee. I worked with a recruiting agency to develop their Global Talent Stream strategy to help more engineers immigrate to Canada. Finally, I was building a co-retail concept shop at stackt and looking to set up another pop-up at Union Station.</p><p>None of these things could be worked on when travel was forbidden, staying home for coffee was the new norm, and retail stores were completely shut down.</p><p>At the time, my thought process stood anchored around the idea that this was temporary. Lockdowns would in months, and life would resume.</p><p>The thing is, I have always been working on something: a project, an idea, a company. I have never had a job that just meant going to work — we were always building something.</p><p>Two years later, I have worked on a lot of ideas. Mainly my own but also on behalf of other businesses and clients.</p><p>From Spring 2020 until now has been quite a journey. During the lockdown, I learnt how to build a product with Bubble — a no-code development platform called shopindependent.ca. Eventually, I put that on the back burner to return to working in the co-retail shop at the end of the year.</p><p>As retail was still challenging, we ran markets at stackt to support more small businesses.</p><p>With more businesses focusing online, we had space in our shop, so we started selling plants. Customers always asked if they could buy them, and up until the fall, we were unable to sell them due to a conflict with another tenant.</p><p>In October, we agreed to open a pop-up in Yorkville. We created a new brand called Promise Supply for this. Previously everything was known as General Stores. We focused on selling plants with a small selection of brands we carried on consignment at stackt.</p><p>When the government locked down Ontario again in November 2020, we launched <a href="http://promisesupply.ca/">PromiseSupply.ca</a> and focused all of our attention on building an eCommerce plant business.</p><p>Since we have had ups and downs, gone back to consulting, and returned from consulting.</p><p>What I’m working on is understanding and developing the best experience for people to discover and buy plants online. It’s a work in progress.</p><p>I wrote this update because, frankly I haven’t taken a look around in a while. I find coming back to Medium/Tumblr all of these platforms I’ve published on from time to time is always a good reminder of different moments. If you read this and thought it was boring — I’m sorry.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=a653e90c0d31" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Staffing Tech Companies are so Valuable and What They Mean for your Staffing Agency]]></title>
            <link>https://medium.com/the-future-of-staffing/why-staffing-tech-companies-are-so-valuable-and-what-they-mean-for-your-staffing-agency-b96e9b16ab62?source=rss-3a8eb8927981------2</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[David King]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2019 19:38:39 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2019-05-08T19:38:39.242Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*nNeWXUZAN9GiRTtbDNccMw.jpeg" /></figure><p>Technology has only recently started to solve complex offline problems such as managing thousands of temporary workers, automating payroll, etc.</p><p>Companies including Uber have been around for a decade and have just started to solve simple staffing problems like event staffing.</p><p>Wonolo, which was founded four years ago, has built a business that’s raised $60M to solve the problem of short-term temporary staffing using mobile apps.</p><p>These companies are being valued on metrics including users and growth potential with multiples of earnings that would make any agency owner in the staffing industry envious. We’re talking 10X gross revenues and as much as 120X EBITDA.</p><blockquote><strong>TimeSaved </strong>believes that the complexity and variety of problems in the staffing industry are best managed by experts who have regional and occupational focuses.</blockquote><p>Unlike Uber and Wonolo, <strong>TimeSaved </strong>believes that the complexity and variety of problems in the staffing industry are best managed by experts who have regional and occupational focuses. We also know that the companies that will survive and thrive over the next decade will use technology, mobile, and data to increase their growth and value.</p><h3>Why are unproven apps worth so much more than established companies?</h3><p>Public staffing agencies trade at 2–5X EBITDA and &lt;1X of gross revenue while Tech Startups in the industry are getting 120X markups. Why is that?</p><blockquote>Mobile apps are placing more workers per employee with better matching, faster than traditional agencies can.</blockquote><p>Mobile apps help you earn more money on the workers, generate more productivity from your employees, and make your company more valuable for shareholders and potential acquirers.</p><p>Beyond all of the short-term benefits of using technology — better redeployment rates, higher efficiency, and an increase in worker reliability — sits a pot of gold.</p><p>Becoming a tech-enabled staffing agency can drastically increase the value of your business.</p><p>Sound too good to be true? Well, we want to take a deep dive into staffing agency valuations as well as technology company valuations. We want to help you understand how technology makes your staffing agency more valuable to private equity and other potential acquirers.</p><p>Perhaps, most importantly, we want to help you see how you implementing technology will be responsible for the growth and survival of your staffing company over the next decade.</p><h3>How do you grow your business&#39;s value? Technology? M&amp;A? Entering a new geography? Hiring?</h3><p>You can really increase the value of your business by doing more business or doing business more efficiently. If you want to increase your profit by 20% you can buy a company with the exact economics for 20% of what you are worth today, increase your growth rate by 20%, or you can become 20% more efficient.</p><p>Valuation experts RA Cohen suggests that gross margin, growth rate, and churn rate are the three biggest drivers of enterprise value in the staffing industry.</p><p>Acquisitions in the staffing industry generally operate with multiples of 5X EBITDA or less. Tech-enabled staffing companies keep getting valued at much higher multiples.</p><p>This is why we TimeSaved brings technology, mobile, and data to the heart of your staffing organization. Going mobile and using data is the most responsible thing you can do as a business owner to maximize shareholder value.</p><h3>The relationship of and the 3 key drivers of enterprise value</h3><h4>1. High Growth Rates</h4><p>Your trailing 12-month growth rate (or rate of decline) is the biggest factor outside of your size and your margins that will affect your valuation. Why? Because if you are growing quickly, the future value of your business will be greater to the person acquiring your business. Data and digital-first strategies are one of the best ways to identify and leverage growth within your organization.</p><p>Agencies become more effeicient when they use a mobile staffing solution. They redeploy candidates, and charge more for the same candidates by increasing reliability.</p><h4>2. High Gross Margins</h4><p>Your gross margin, as you know, is total sales revenue that a company retains after the direct costs of the workers you deployed.</p><p>Companies that use TimeSaved have found that they can increase the final cost to their customers because they are able to better predict worker success and worker reliability.</p><p>Perhaps the best thing about implementing a mobile platform that bills per worker hour is that agencies have been able to pass on the additional costs to their customer.</p><p>When you get charged $0.10–$0.20 per worker hour, the improved service increases what you can bill your clients. This means more revenue per worker, and a more valuable company.</p><h4>3. Low Customer Churn Rates</h4><p>Why do you lose your customers? Probably because you send them the wrong worker or an unreliable worker. By increasing worker quality and reliability you’ll build more trust with your customers.</p><p>For staffing companies, churn can also be considered the churn of your workers. How you retain workers affects your fixed costs dramatically.</p><p>Mobile apps and SMS keep you closer to workers so you can stay top of mind with them. It’s obvious that your redeployment and retention on the worker side will improve how efficient your recruiters are. It will also decrease the cost of recruiting and increase the lifetime value of each candidate you pay to require.</p><p>Tech can lower churn in a way that creates the perfect storm of improvements to your unit economics that will drive your enterprise value through the roof.</p><p>Overall it’s clear that the value of mobile and better data on workers can save you money, grow your revenue, and increase value for shareholders. The best part is, you can often pass on the cost to your customers by introducing your mobile recruiting service as a more powerful and reliable service offering.</p><h3>Natural selection happens in nature &amp; business — Staffing agencies need to evolve or they will die.</h3><p>Choosing not to evolve won’t keep things the same. When a species doesn’t evolve they get out-competed in their niche and can become extinct. Lemurs used to exist across Africa — now they only inhabit Madagascar. Why? Because the monkeys beat them to the banana everywhere else.</p><p>It’s a simplistic analogy. Adapt and survive, or stay the same and die. Death isn’t immediate — it happens over a long time.</p><p>We’ve recently seen the impact of technology and changes in how business is done in the “Retail Apocalypse”. We have yet to reach the staffing apocalypse.</p><p>But all demographic and macroeconomic changes point to temporary staffing growing as a market. While this might sound great to you, the companies that will capture that growth are the companies that move to a digital-first strategy.</p><p>Between tech-first companies entering your territory and publicly traded giants build technologies to compete — you need an advantage.</p><h3>Temporary employment is a growing industry— not all agencies will benefit from the growth</h3><p>The number of temporary workers in the US is expected to grow by 10 million over the next few years. But will your firm benefit from that growth? Or are you going to continue to think about expanding into new markets or trying to just acquire more customers?</p><p>Target tried to expand their business by entering a new market — Canada. That failed, and they went bankrupt. What has worked is changing the way they do business.</p><p>Modernizing their technology, building tools that give their customers a better experience, and thinking like a digital-first company. You can revitalize and create growth by thinking about how tech is impacting your business and then doing something about it.</p><p>Temporary staffing’s future requires mobile-first thinking. We now trust our phones to find everything we need. People look for work on mobile devices first, especially temporary or casual work. If your company isn’t thinking mobile first yet, you need to start thinking about it today.</p><p>There is a reason the Fortune 500 have seen companies go out of business while technology companies have become dominant.</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/889/0*JtOBq0Cjc4XIrj99" /></figure><p>Even the companies on that list that aren’t tech-first companies have all adopted digital first mentalities to leverage and build technology to sustain their lead in the market.</p><p>Regardless of if you are running a $1, $10 or $100 million agency, you have customers, employees and families that rely on your business. For your business to continue to support and sustain the people that are most important to you over the next decade it’s integral for you to evaluate, understand, and act on the changes to the industry that are going to happen whether you decide to evolve or not.</p><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>If you aren’t convinced that mobile technology is going to help you increase how much business you do, hopefully, you recognize that is going to keep you in business and make you more valuable.</p><p>At this point, it is irresponsible for business owners not to consider the implications of a mobile-first temporary workforce. It’s impossible to compete without evolving. And most importantly, it’s profitable when you can simply increase retention, margin per worker hour, and your shareholder value.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=b96e9b16ab62" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><p><a href="https://medium.com/the-future-of-staffing/why-staffing-tech-companies-are-so-valuable-and-what-they-mean-for-your-staffing-agency-b96e9b16ab62">Why Staffing Tech Companies are so Valuable and What They Mean for your Staffing Agency</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/the-future-of-staffing">The Future of Staffing</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[14 Views from the Abandoned Unilever Factory in Toronto]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2017 10:24:31 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2017-03-04T10:24:31.223Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you had told me 10 years ago that I would spend Sunday walking around a soap factory for fun, I would have laughed. But that’s exactly what over 200 people signed up to do last Sunday at the former Unilever Factory on the east side of Toronto.</p><p>The 1940s soap plant is slated for redevelopment in the coming years, but in the meantime, has recently been made available for photos shoots and film production on <a href="https://thisopenspace.com/spaces/1288">thisopenspace</a>, a marketplace that offers one-of-a-kind spaces for short-term rental.</p><p>Since its listing, the 7-story space has received a ton of interest, but at $10,000/day, it can be difficult to afford. So we decided to put together an event with the landlord, First Gulf, that allowed the creative community access for a day, for free. We called it #thisopenhouse.</p><p>Each person who showed up found their own unique perspective on the space. Their vision brought attention to different elements of the space. Guests’ interests ranged from using the venue for weddings to an emerging rapper taking the opportunity to shoot scenes for a music video. Most people, however, were looking for the perfect shot.</p><p>The Instagram community that our partners #paid and AJFernando brought out was incredible. It’s interesting to see the offline interaction of people who share an online passion. So far we’ve seen nearly a hundred perspectives on the space posted in Instagram. 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            <title><![CDATA[Future Of: Contact Sports]]></title>
            <link>https://medium.com/futureof/future-of-contact-sports-4a57320fd22?source=rss-3a8eb8927981------2</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[football]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[nfl]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[future]]></category>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[David King]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:12:02 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2016-06-07T16:12:02.881Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*wlwoB3tUE3kjz8k0CbyWgg.jpeg" /></figure><p>by <a href="https://medium.com/u/1c9ab8428763">Mira Blumenthal</a></p><p><em>FutureOf is a series of events dedicated to discussing how our interests and industries will be shaped in the future. These aren’t talks, they are conversations. Kind of like TED Talks, only you can talk back.</em></p><p><strong>What happens when an idol loses his mind?</strong></p><p>The link between professional athleticism and brain trauma has been a highly contested issue over the past few years — especially since the Will Smith movie, <em>Concussion</em>, came out around Christmas of 2015 — and Alistair Leyland, founding partner of the digital shop Array of Stars, is keen to get to the bottom of it.</p><p>Leyland may be a digital strategist and entrepreneur during the day, but he’s an avid and passionate sports fan outside of his 9–5 (and sometimes during it). Throughout his talk about “The Future of Contact Sports,” he guided the discussion around professional sports as a not only a source of entertainment, but a business and media platform as well. He delved into the cultural significance that football has for Americans to really take a closer look at what’s going in the NFL with regards to mental illness and why they’re so resistant to change.</p><p><strong>How do we treat our heroes?</strong></p><p>Football is undoubtedly the most popular and profitable American sport. Aside from the obvious advertising opportunities that come with events like the Super Bowl, the cult following around football is evident in how their weekends are set up: Friday nights are reserved for high school games, Saturdays for college matches, and Sundays for the pros. The pigskin sport is possibly more all-American than apple pie or fried food. Which, perhaps, explains why the professional league is so hesitant to alter its policies — because if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. What it doesn’t explain, however, is the way in which the league treats its money makers and why very few officials are speaking openly about it.</p><p><strong>What’s really going on?</strong></p><p>A sport that involves head butts in almost every play will undoubtedly cause some injuries. With around 360 head injuries per game, however, good PR and huge settlements can only go so far. At the end of the day, Leyland explained, the fundamentals of the game need to change — and that goes far beyond the playbook.</p><p>He broke it down for us. With 3 in every 10 pro players showing signs of repeated head injuries within 5 years of retiring — including depression, anxiety, early onset alzheimer’s, psychosis, and suicide — Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), has become a critical topic of conversation in the sports world. The disease, which currently can only be diagnosed posthumously, raises questions like: What would football look like without tackling? Would alternative options for helmets and materials that offer a softer blow provide enough support for players? And, where is the NFLPA in all of this?</p><p><strong>Notorious B.I.G (Sports)</strong></p><p>Being plagued by a notoriously old school mentality is not exclusive to the NFL or even “Big Sports” in general; innovation and awareness of critical issues are all too often swept under the rug when money and tradition are at play. It’s time for the league to step up and start questioning some of the tried-and-true fundamentals of the game and make room for some newer, more forward thinking voices. Creating infrastructures within the sporting industry that support players who are suffering from mental (and physical) illnesses is one thing, but penetrating the long-established ideological hold that football has on American culture is, quite literally, an entirely different ball game.</p><h4>Interested in more?</h4><h3>Join us on <a href="http://facebook.com/futureofca">Facebook</a> in our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/237678856591548/?ref=br_rs">Group</a> or at <a href="http://futureof.ca/">FutureOf.ca</a></h3><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=4a57320fd22" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><p><a href="https://medium.com/futureof/future-of-contact-sports-4a57320fd22">Future Of: Contact Sports</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/futureof">Future Of</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Future Of: Cannabis]]></title>
            <link>https://medium.com/futureof/future-of-cannabis-1008ed41ec5f?source=rss-3a8eb8927981------2</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[cannabis]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[marijuana]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[future]]></category>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[David King]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2016 15:24:58 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2016-05-17T17:53:08.054Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*9fS_WO85gQXnOznXyrmMEg.jpeg" /></figure><p>by <a href="https://medium.com/u/34efda06e0e2">Mira Blumenthal</a></p><p>The future of pot. Now that’s a divisive topic to discuss on a casual Tuesday night. And yet, the way in which Alan Gertner (CEO at Tokyo Smoke and former Google employee) and the rest of the Future Of attendees orchestrated the conversation was anything but.</p><p>Using facts and figures, Gertner outlined where we’re at with the legalization of cannabis and how the market is rife with opportunity. He articulately outlined the business implications of the emerging industry and its very active user base, and yet — almost more importantly — he was able to go beyond the mere facts and figures and get down to the human side of cannabis culture.</p><h3>Cannabis needs a new brand identity</h3><p>Gertner explained how, when society or the media discusses marijuana, we tend to default to the image of a “stoner” — a lazy, blurry-minded, red-eyed teenager in a hoodie. He then raised the point: <strong>when we think about drinking, we don’t think about alcoholics.</strong> There is a vast group of cannabis users who are not stoners; in fact, they’d likely be offended if you called them that. And these kinds of misconceptions around marijuana are endless.</p><p>So what can we do to tackle this? From what I heard last week, it seems like we should be focusing on the people — and people like to know what they’re getting themselves into.</p><h3><strong>1. Refreshed lingo</strong></h3><p>According to Gertner, language is fundamental to the “harmless revolution” that’s percolating. If pot smoking is to become mainstream, the silly and juvenile nomenclature that is currently used for the different strands of marijuana and its accompanying accessories needs to be phased out and replaced by a more accessible, descriptive, and softer naming system.</p><h3><strong>2. Regulated reefer</strong></h3><p>Extracts, edibles, and other odor-free options have a very active and demanding user base, as do dispensaries. However, for cannabis use to shift from the illegal fringes of society to the regulated realm of big pharma, it will need to become normalized and standardized — and language, a sense of safety and clarity, and new societal codes of conduct are key to this.</p><h3><strong>3. Patients not products</strong></h3><p>Insight into the human side of cannabis consumption were central to this discussion. Beyond the cultural changes and financial gains that can be gleaned from this product, the ways in which both medical and recreational marijuana use impacts the user is critical to its mainstream adoption.</p><p>Putting aside the recreational users for a moment, the obstacles and that medical marijuana users currently face are astounding. Lack of access, clarity, and education around high CBD strains — among several other challenges — are hindering patients on a regular basis. This is an entirely different side of the revolution that is all too often overlooked. By humanizing the industry and changing the way pot is both sold and thought about, perhaps the emotional aspect of the industry will be able to come to the fore.</p><h3>What’s the resolution?</h3><p>These issues were by no means going to be solved in a single discussion on a single night. However, by opening up the eyes of the attendees — which included everyone from patient advocates, to holistic healers, to recreational users — the discussion was able to present a different dimension of the cannabis debate and to attempt to humanize it, before we legalize it.</p><p>As the second episode of the Future Of series came to a close, a sense of warmness seemed to surround the group. It wasn’t just the delicious Tokyo Smoke coffee that filled our bellies late on a weekday evening, but rather the sense that, by discussing these issues and attempting to look at them from a variety of perspectives, we were fostering something larger than ourselves.</p><p>As Future Of founder David King likes to say, when people from different walks of life come together and all their differing disciplines intersect, new and unusual ideas emerge.</p><h4>Interested in more?</h4><h3>Join us on <a href="http://facebook.com/futureofca">Facebook</a> in our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/237678856591548/?ref=br_rs">Group</a> or at <a href="http://futureof.ca/">FutureOf.ca</a></h3><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=1008ed41ec5f" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><p><a href="https://medium.com/futureof/future-of-cannabis-1008ed41ec5f">Future Of: Cannabis</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/futureof">Future Of</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Future Of: Learning]]></title>
            <link>https://medium.com/futureof/future-of-learning-8489cc0372b7?source=rss-3a8eb8927981------2</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[edtech]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[learning]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[David King]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2016 22:29:38 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2016-05-09T22:29:38.916Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*fOx3zU3fI5WpMLrzXSWCGw.jpeg" /></figure><p>by <a href="https://medium.com/u/1c9ab8428763">Mira Blumenthal</a></p><p><em>FutureOf is a series of events dedicated to discussing how our interests and industries will be shaped in the future. These aren’t talks, they are conversations. Kind of like TED Talks, only you can talk back.</em></p><p>On a Tuesday evening in early May, a group of eager professionals of varying ages gathered in the very cozy and immaculately curated quarters of Adelaide Street’s Tokyo Smoke to discuss the future of learning.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.slideshare.net%2Fslideshow%2Fembed_code%2Fkey%2Fu0vOD6FiV1JvUg&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slideshare.net%2FDavidKing33%2Ffuture-of-season-1-episode-1-learning-w-aislinn-malzecki%3Fref%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.slideshare.net%2FDavidKing33%2Fslideshelf&amp;image=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.slidesharecdn.com%2Fss_thumbnails%2Ffutureoflearningv2-160509185604-thumbnail-4.jpg%3Fcb%3D1462832324&amp;key=d04bfffea46d4aeda930ec88cc64b87c&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=slideshare" width="600" height="500" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"><a href="https://medium.com/media/51bb1ad548d940475268e70cf35ba776/href">https://medium.com/media/51bb1ad548d940475268e70cf35ba776/href</a></iframe><h4>“Entrepreneurs are interesting learners, they learn very quickly; they learn to survive.” — <a href="https://medium.com/u/88df0fe86eab">Aislinn</a></h4><p>Aislinn Malszecki, a strategist on the entrepreneurship programs team at MaRS, kicked off the conversation with this quote: “Entrepreneurs are interesting learners, they learn very quickly; they learn to survive.” Launching into a discussion of future AR and VR technologies, what classrooms would look like if they weren’t pedagogical autocracies, and why educational systems should prioritize the personalization of learning, Aislinn led the group through a vision of the future where learning is not just more immersive, but also more experimental.</p><p>Right now, Aislinn explained, we think about artificial intelligence devices as robots that can perform menial tasks and will likely integrate into the labour market over the next few years. But what if they could help us establish new, non-linear ways of learning? What if advanced technology could assist us with our lifelong journey of education and self-understanding?</p><p>Most of us agreed. “Our education system is set up for a society that is evaporating,” explained Aislinn. If we’re moving from a labour and service-based market to an innovative idea economy, these systems need to be able to adapt. We need to leverage the technologies we’re building in order to bring our systems of learning into the present and the future.</p><p>People are messy, they’re creative. Why can’t our systems of learning be too?</p><p>It’s time for the new generation of educators to step in and offer purpose-based, community-supported, personalized learning techniques that rely on (and therefore trust) algorithms and other technologies to facilitate — hopefully turning schools (and offices, for that matter) into creative makerspaces and hubs for innovation.</p><p>If this happens, perhaps we’ll learn to love learning again.</p><h4>Interested in more?</h4><h3>Join us on <a href="http://facebook.com/futureofca">Facebook</a> in our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/237678856591548/?ref=br_rs">Group</a> or at <a href="http://futureof.ca/">FutureOf.ca</a></h3><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=8489cc0372b7" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><p><a href="https://medium.com/futureof/future-of-learning-8489cc0372b7">Future Of: Learning</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/futureof">Future Of</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Do Men and Women See Personal Development Differently?]]></title>
            <link>https://medium.com/life-tips/do-men-and-women-see-personal-development-differently-83e76bd625bc?source=rss-3a8eb8927981------2</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[self-improvement]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[personal-development]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[women]]></category>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[David King]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2016 18:22:17 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2016-06-08T18:38:05.817Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*bHlh5ewku3gxzYrqc7mbqQ.jpeg" /></figure><p>So much of how I understand personal development is genderless, at least in my mind. Maybe, I thought, as a man I overlook how my gender affects my drive to be a better person.</p><p>What is different about personal growth because of our gender? Why was it that my personal development was genderless in my eyes while this group of women all had some semblance of their journey in self-discovery guided by a concept of a feminine goddess?</p><p>I couldn’t answer it, and I probably won’t be able to. I don’t think I can understand the need to bond based on gender in that way. I tried through the lens of being a person of colour — still nothing. My race impacted the way that I saw myself and in some cases, the conceptions I had about who I was, or should be. But, it wasn’t central to how I cared for myself and directed my personal growth and development.</p><p>Maybe there is no connection I can draw, other than perhaps a connection to how socialization affects the constructs we ultimately can hope to escape from through self-discovery. A lot of these women suggested that one of the things they had to overcome was the need to care for others before themselves. Perhaps one of the things men have to discover is the need to care for themselves at all.</p><p>We are slowly moving into a generation where gender boundaries have less and less to do with traditional roles such as caretaking. But, at this stage, I would argue that the majority of young adults are raised with their mother as their primary caregiver. Caring for others, to some degree, is in a lot of cases considered a female trait.</p><p>Men don’t, typically, judge themselves based on whether or not they are good caregivers. They do, however often judge themselves on whether or not they can be good providers. The provider who brings resources and stability to a family, or themselves.</p><p>The subtle difference here led me to think about the subtle difference between the mentalities that would guide the development of these underlying modalities. Women attach their ability to care for others to how successful they are. Men attach their self-reliance they are to how successful they are.</p><p>Perhaps this small distinction could create a pronounced difference between how both genders perceive and refer to personal growth. Fundamentality, the difference I noticed was the use of the word care vs. another word such as development. Do gender roles affect the way we interpret how we refer to the need we have to grow as a person in life?</p><p>The semiotics student in me believes that the language we use shapes our experience. Personal development doesn’t imply a lot of activities that self-care might. There were constants between the elements of self-care that the panel mentioned and the things my male friends reference as being at the core of the personal growth strategy. But I found that women extended self-care in a lot of ways that perhaps the men I know don’t.</p><p>Maybe I do need to use better cream, take the time to get a massage, and be more willing to consider getting hair cuts, exfoliating, and moisturizing as a part of my path to personal growth.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=83e76bd625bc" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><p><a href="https://medium.com/life-tips/do-men-and-women-see-personal-development-differently-83e76bd625bc">Do Men and Women See Personal Development Differently?</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/life-tips">Be Yourself</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Battle Lines are Being Drawn — Self-Help vs Self-Aggrandizement]]></title>
            <link>https://medium.com/life-tips/the-battle-lines-are-being-drawn-self-help-vs-self-aggrandizement-1d3fa0acdf50?source=rss-3a8eb8927981------2</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[personal-development]]></category>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[David King]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2016 12:02:57 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2016-03-06T15:34:03.480Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1000/1*joHaUR3ZH-7u3OXblBjQUg.jpeg" /><figcaption>I see what you are trying to do there…</figcaption></figure><h4><em>Why can’t we be friends, why can’t we be friends, why can’t we be friends.</em></h4><p>I am guilty. Guilty of wanting to share my perspective on what I’ve done over the past few years. Guilty of reading listicles and listening to podcasts and trying to uncover what makes me tick. Guilty of writing a post about my habits and hoping that people will appreciate it.</p><p>Over the past few days, I’ve noticed lines being drawn in the sand here on Medium. Writers who don’t appreciate when something goes “viral” or someone talks about “personal growth” are lashing out against a few names that often rise to the top of Medium.</p><p>Although they think their issue is with the writers, their issue is with the readers. They take aim at personal development authors like Tony Robbins, <a href="https://medium.com/u/f9ac9806e153">Seth Godin</a>, or <a href="https://medium.com/u/56d3bc91794f">Tim Ferriss</a>. People who have built tremendous audiences of devout followers who see these authors as champions of their success.</p><p>What strikes me as absolutely ridiculous about all of the arguments against this type of content is that it gets too much traffic. People shouldn’t care about these articles. They should care about the “real” work that a “real” author who isn’t worried about “stats” cares about. But the fact is, readers do care.</p><p>The battle between “high” and “low” culture has been waged for centuries. Why do you even care if <a href="https://medium.com/u/5153880ce2ee">Benjamin Hardy</a> is getting a ton of traction on his posts? Best sellers haven’t always been the best authors. Although the medium has changed (see what I did there) the message is the same: whether it is sales, views, or otherwise — some people do it for the audience.</p><p>You aren’t forced to read someone’s listicle. You aren’t forced to click the bait. If you are above it, be above it, but don’t tear someone else down to build yourself up.</p><p>You are not so different <a href="https://medium.com/u/63f32f25d20a">Elliot Nichols</a>. With every recommendation, view, and read you receive you are benefiting not from what you’ve chosen to create, but whom you’ve chosen to attack.</p><p>Anyway, this is all some bullshit. I just came here to share things I wanted to write. To those who like it, thanks for your support. To those that don’t, go read something else. There is no shortage of content on the internet, the last thing I need is your negative ass trying to tear me down.</p><p>Give Elliot some more views here:</p><p><a href="https://medium.com/p/e4700c6a1ce7">Benjamin Hardy Must Be Stopped</a></p><p><em>I’m admittedly getting involved because I want likes, I want followers, I want it all, I want it now?</em></p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=1d3fa0acdf50" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><p><a href="https://medium.com/life-tips/the-battle-lines-are-being-drawn-self-help-vs-self-aggrandizement-1d3fa0acdf50">The Battle Lines are Being Drawn — Self-Help vs Self-Aggrandizement</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/life-tips">Be Yourself</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[3 Surprising Steps to Quitting Your Job and Working from the Beach]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[David King]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:58:53 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2016-02-26T14:59:03.062Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*4CzLyfwA7fbSE8Lht7tepg.jpeg" /></figure><h4>An honest and satirical salute to chasing work/life balance</h4><h3>Step One: Book Your Vacation</h3><h4>Key to success: Pay for the flight before you quit</h4><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*nKII9mt8NgYvb8J69t37bg.png" /></figure><p>Most people would expect that the first step in this process would be to quit your job. Nope, they are wrong. Once you quit your job, you are going to question whether or not you should pay for that vacation. So get out of the way. Book your flight before you know you are going to quit to make sure that its locked in.</p><h3>Step Two: Quit Your Job</h3><h4>Quitting ain’t easy</h4><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/620/1*J9KTPoFB0aQF7KRoeSR9Gw.jpeg" /></figure><p>Resign from your position. Give notice. Do whatever you are supposed to do. Tell them, “Thank you for the opportunity but that you’ve decided to move on.” Mean it, wish it worked out differently, but hopefully, you are pursuing something else that matters to you. You’ll miss it, you liked your job, your team, but it was time to go.</p><h3>Step Thee: Have a Contract or New Project to Complete During Your Vacation</h3><h4>Gotta be starting something</h4><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/600/1*WYiElxVdfjc7-CF_fVSHaQ.jpeg" /></figure><p>Now that you’ve booked your vacation and quit, you need a reason to bring work with you so you can “Work from the Beach” Land a contract, or start a new project that will require you to work during your vacation.</p><h3>BOOM! You are no longer employed and working from the beach!</h3><h4>Shit, it’s raining, you’re just working from a coffee shop in the Carribean. At least, they have Ackee and Saltfish :)</h4><p>Liked this? Share it or Recommend it below!</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=60ce99984299" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><p><a href="https://medium.com/self-starter/3-surprising-steps-to-quitting-your-job-and-working-from-the-beach-60ce99984299">3 Surprising Steps to Quitting Your Job and Working from the Beach</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/self-starter">The Creator’s Path</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Creator’s Path 9]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[David King]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2016 01:56:16 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2016-02-22T01:56:16.119Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey!</p><p>Hope you are having an awesome Sunday. Thank you as always for reading!</p><p><strong>Thought of the Week: </strong>We develop habits to reach our goals, but we should also find pleasure in those habits themselves. I wrote a post on Medium about it: <a href="https://medium.com/life-tips/8-habits-everyone-should-try-50c070c9afa2#.twnissf8b">8 Habits You Should Try, and Why I Don’t Care If They Make Me More “Successful”</a> You can also check out an audio <a href="https://soundcloud.com/consultdk/8-habits-everyone-should-try-and-why-i-dont-care-if-they-make-me-successful">recording on SoundCloud</a> and let me know what you think.</p><p><strong>Quote of the Week:</strong> “Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.” ~ Epictetus<br>I have been reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Intelligence-Managing-emotions-positive/dp/0857085441/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8">Emotional Intelligence </a>this week, which has me thinking about the relationship between our emotions, reactions and how they are fundamentally habits.</p><p><strong>Article of the Week: </strong><a href="https://hbr.org/2015/12/4-ways-to-become-a-better-learner">4 Ways to Become a Better Learner — Harvard Business Review</a></p><p>HBR takes a look at how we can improve our learning agility.</p><p>What is learning agility? <br>“Learning agility is the capacity for rapid, continuous learning from experience.” people with who exhibit this ability tend to value and derive satisfaction from the process of learning itself, which boosts their motivation as well as their capacity to learn from challenging developmental experiences.”</p><p>How do you develop it?</p><ul><li>Ask for feedback. Maintain a growth mindset and embrace that you have more to learn.</li><li>Experiment with new behaviors. Sometimes you will get more by playing than from work.</li><li>Look for connections across unrelated areas — Innovation is often just the intersection of two established ideas.</li><li>Make time for reflection. Growth and introspection allow you to extract more from what you are learning.</li></ul><p><strong>Creator of the Week:</strong> Matthew Castel is the co-founder of <a href="http://logoslp.com/">Logos LP</a> a hedge fund. He creates more high-quality content about finance than almost anyone I know. Himself and his co-founder Peter have found a way to create value beyond their investment returns by sharing the strategies through their blog and their thoughts through a weekly newsletter.</p><p><em>I’m building an application that sends you a daily text message reminder about your most important habits. Want to help figure it out? </em><a href="/service/mailto:david+habits@generatecreative.ca?subject=Habit%20App&amp;body=Name%3A%0APhone%20Number%3A%0AHabit%20I%27m%20Working%20On%3A%0AWhen%20I%20want%20to%20be%20Reminded%3A"><em>Shoot me an email</em></a></p><p><em>It would mean the world to me if you would … </em><a href="https://twitter.com/home?status=Check%20out%20the%20%40davidcreates%20newsletter%20The%20Creators%20Path%20for%20tips/tricks/ideas%20http%3A//tinyletter.com/davidmking"><strong><em>Tweet</em></strong></a><em> or </em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A//tinyletter.com/davidmking"><strong><em>Share</em></strong></a><em> or </em><a href="http://tinyletter.com/davidmking"><strong><em>Subscribe</em></strong></a></p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=67bf7a30fe61" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><p><a href="https://medium.com/self-starter/the-creator-s-path-9-67bf7a30fe61">The Creator’s Path 9</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/self-starter">The Creator’s Path</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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