Month: February 2025
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The Epic is Made Up of the Tiny
If you haven’t read Colum McCann’s novel Let the Great World Spin, I highly recommend you do. It’s one of my favourite finds of the last ten years. I’d lend you my copy, but it’s sitting on someone’s bookshelf in Vancouver where it’s likely to, unfortunately, remain unread. The Irish born and raised author lives…
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The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Salesforce Personas
So, in the first post on looking at the principles of Alan Cooper’s Inmates are Running the Asylum I summarized the overarching message of the book which is, essentially, “don’t let programmers design your solution.” This applies particularly in Salesforce world, as it’s fundamentally an operational tool–it implements your workflows and processes. This time we’re…
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Henry Moore, Two Large Forms
Two Large Forms is located in the Grange Park at the back of the Art Gallery of Ontario and adjacent to the OCADU. You can learn more about it in a little feature the AGO posted.
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Bluesky, Social Media, and the…Present?
I was on Twitter from fairly early days. I lived in Vancouver at the time, and it was fun, engaging, safe place to connect and meet people. I met one of my closest friends to this day there through a weird conversation about bagpipers, and two of the most meaningful and important person relationships I’ve…
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The Inmates are Running the Asylum: A Salesforce Centric Look
I’ve been reminding people (some might say ranting) about the fact that people should read Alan Cooper’s classic The Inmates Are Running the Asylum in the context of Salesforce development for a bit, so I figured I’d elaborate on it and look at some of its points in more depth. I’m not going to lie:…
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Tariffs, the Sentient Cheeto and the Trudeau
I was never exactly on Team Justin, having spent my fleeting youth on another Team Trudeau. I saw Justin’s election as a sign of the further populist and Americanization of Canadian politics–he was a name, not an effective leader. The notion that being the son of a Prime Minister qualified him to be Prime Minister…