by mvboronowski | May 29, 2012 | Competencies
Ever wondered who invented the roller coaster, or more importantly, why on earth they thought it would be a good idea? Or maybe you’re living with a secret longing to learn the ukulele, but you’ve never had the time to learn how to play anything but a slightly...
by mvboronowski | May 28, 2012 | Competencies
Last Friday, I got a chance to witness the hefty emotions and cathartic experience that graduation frequently illicits in people. It was a scene that I missed during my own graduation from high school thirteen years ago. When I graduated from Prince of Wales in 1999,...
by mvboronowski | May 24, 2012 | Business & Entrepreneurship
By writing these words (technically, about 40 words from now) I’m contradicting one of my most important career messages, which is: be more interested than interesting. For the record, it can also look like this: interesting interested. The message about showing...
by mvboronowski | May 23, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
This Monday, intrepid Gumboot illustrator/photographer Phil Skipper and I embarked on a journey to ride from East Vancouver to New Westminister along the vaunted Central Valley Greenway, a bike route that weaves through the “Vancouver specials” of East...
by mvboronowski | May 22, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
If you remove all the drugs & debauchery from Slash’s memoirs, he may have written the world’s best handbook for building a career in today’s complicated world. Slash grew up in 20 square blocks of Hollywood and Beverly Hills. He discovered...