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In the end, everything will be okay. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.

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These past four years have been something. (Left March 2022, Right May 2018)

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All Toronto companies need to give their employees a “TTC Clause,” where if TTC fails to operate properly (often) it should give workers the ability to either work from home or be paid for their commute. #toronto #ttc

[Jean-Michel Lemieux @jmwind]

I interviewed Mark Carney for a job.

It was 2021. We were looking to bring in a board member or executive who could help us think about entrepreneurship in the context of the global economy.

I was asked to interview a guy named Mark. I Googled him. He had a decent CV.

In our call after brief introductions, he jumped straight in and said, “I see on Strava that you’re a runner and you live in...” It threw me off a bit. He had clearly done his homework. Borderline stalking. We talked about running for a while. He was good at small talk. He casually mentioned that he runs marathons now and then.

Mental note: he does his homework. Also, is he distracting me so I do not get to my questions? I started worrying he would try to schmooze me instead of getting into anything substantive.

In my defence, I had done some homework too. I had not stalked him on social media, but I had read several articles he had written. I learned that he leaned strongly globalist and believed that most of our challenges do not respect borders and will only be solved collaboratively.

I wanted to see if he could argue against his own position. More specifically, I asked when countries should invest in self-reliance. For context, I explained how, in software, we have learned that purely centralized systems fail in obvious ways. But overly distributed systems fail too, when small issues propagate across too many dependencies.

I asked whether societies behave the same way. Are we sometimes too decentralized? When should countries accept less efficiency and invest in more centralization or self-reliance?

He smiled. I could not tell whether he thought the question was childish or whether I had annoyed him. Then he broke the silence and said, “This is a great parallel. Give me a second to think about it.”

We ended up having a great conversation. That said, it took him a lot of words to make his point. Professional talker.

He liked the exercise. I could tell he had spent so long defending global collaboration that he had not fully prepared for this angle. I did not know it at the time, but he was in the middle of writing Value(s), which is essentially an ode to global cooperation.

We went over time. It did not faze him. He cared about finishing the discussion. At that point he was improvising, and it felt natural and fun. It was a genuinely thoughtful discussion. I learned a lot.

In the end, he did not join us. But we all wanted him to.

When I see him in his current gig, a small part of me laughs that I might have helped warm him up.

The more I think about that conversation, the clearer it becomes that he probably did not want his current Prime Minister role. Not in the way people want promotions or titles. Some people spend a lifetime preparing for problems they hope never arrive. When the moment shows up anyway, they step in. Not because it is appealing, but because it is necessary.

This just happened to be his moment.

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Took a gamble, and it paid off. Patience and hard work always.

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The choice might have been mistaken, but choosing was not.

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HIGH INTEREST LOAN FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 🥳🎉🎊

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@epictucu @All_Might2024 Yeah bro I apologize I don’t glorify other men who clearly don’t give a shit about you…. But hey I get the admiration I admire you for being so mentally handicapped that it’s a miracle you can string together a coherent sentence (and I’m being generous with coherent)

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Happy Election Night everyone!

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@epictucu @All_Might2024 Glad to see that you’re owning up to being a piece of shit tho! Progress and personal growth!

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@epictucu @All_Might2024 LOL so you’re not actually Canadian dead

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@epictucu @All_Might2024 Very interesting that suddenly… I am one and the same as you. Yet you hate me despite being two sides of the same coin. Oh well, that’s just the propaganda right. I hope you can learn other words that are actually insulting to a person above the age of 13.

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@epictucu @All_Might2024 So you spend part of your very important life to yell at people and call them slurs?

Alright then… you do you!

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@epictucu @All_Might2024 So instead of realizing that you can affect change by using your wallet in a productive way, you’re choosing to ignore it because someone who disagrees with you pointed it out.

Damn I didn’t know going to the store to buy a cake makes me an incel, so ur one too then?

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@epictucu So you buy it and indirectly support it with your money?

Way to go, you are an accessory to the thing you hate the most!

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@epictucu @All_Might2024 Yeahup please tell me more as you furiously type your reasonings as you recite propaganda talking points

Snore, seen it before. But please continue talking into the void.

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@epictucu @All_Might2024 I mean you didn’t deny it: so you are Ilan incel. Nice work @All_Might2024 GOT EEEM

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@epictucu lol stay mad while all the immigrants who work hard carry your ass while you whine and complain that the world wasn’t built for you and you alone!

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@epictucu lol look at you making wild assumptions like a good boy, I’m sure daddy Trumpy is proud of you!

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@epictucu lol again with the fat jokes and assumption that I don’t have a job; please go ahead make those assumptions! It’ll only further distort your view of society!

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@epictucu Not enough intelligence for an actual witty response.

Sad.

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@jmercer048 Damn and you’re a Canucks fan. I won’t even make fun of you because that in itself deserves pity.