Last week, I was invited to attend a speaker series at Rotman where I listened to an excellent presentation from Jeremy Gutsche, Chief Trend Hunter of Trendhunter.com. Gutsche spoke about his new book, Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change.

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the presentation did not [...]

Recently, a great article by Henry Mintzberg from the July/August edition of the Harvard Business Review was distributed around Espresso’s offices for discussion, as we felt that it so corresponded with what we were trying to do with our organization. In the interest of sharing, I couldn’t resist getting further conversation going beyond our red [...]

I had to share my little bit of news. I’ve just been accepted into U of T’s Faculty of Information PhD program! I’ll be starting my doctoral studies in emerging media next month. (No kidding, I enjoy moving quickly.)
The best part of this is that they offer a Flex Time program, which will allow you [...]

A couple of my close friends attended the Video Games Live Show in Toronto last week, which got us thinking around the office about cultural impact and branding. (Check out the requisite promo video here.)
Video games’ first emergence into the market was pretty basic. Playing an eight byte game? Awesome. Rather than [...]