Ben Fowler

Co-Founder and CEO at MarketShare Associates

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

Geopolitics is not the only reason investors are leaving China, it’s simply much cheaper to produce in other countries

[Holly Doan @hollyanndoan]

Canada has not gained "a single thing of tangible value" for US$159.2 million purchase of shares in Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, says Canadian who worked as senior exec. https://t.co/I06M1quueo #cdnpoli @BobPickard

[Ben Fowler @IamBen_Fowler]

Love the frankness in your testimony @charles_burton! A definite breath of fresh air. The lack of awareness of or concern about the problem is the most worrying part for me.

[Macdonald-Laurier Institute @MLInstitute]

"Global Affairs Canada's response to #China's comprehensive and coordinated malign challenge to our democratic institutions has been, to be frank about it, pathetically weak and highly ineffective," testified @charles_burton.

@AliEhsassi @MichaelChongMP @sbergeron

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Today the U.S. can produce around 30,000 artillery shells a month. In 1995 the army could produce 867,000 shells a month. https://t.co/gJUHchs5S2

[Ben Fowler @IamBen_Fowler]

@bmdoucet Could they redesign the street to make driving through impossible?

[Paul Graham @paulg]

How many people make it through each day of Replit's online 100 Days of Code tutorial.

[Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani]

34. Our social hierarchies select for high ambition low curiosity people. Productive, socially intelligent, people on the top tend to be shockingly narrow minded

They can't think out of the box, because they don't have out of the box knowledge. They never had time to acquire it

[Ben Fowler @IamBen_Fowler]

@DerrickSimpson_ Really excited to read about a good example of successful urban design in Toronto that hopefully inspires others.

[Ben Fowler @IamBen_Fowler]

@DerrickSimpson_ Thanks for this great thread. Spot on. Colorado has some great examples of what to do right.

[Ben Fowler @IamBen_Fowler]

@apentz Fair enough. I did always wish the updates on the old one were more frequent but the value of the content made it worth the wait!

[Ben Fowler @IamBen_Fowler]

@apentz Is this replacing your previous blog with the long form content? I loved that one and got a ton of value from it.

[Michael Chong 🇨🇦 @MichaelChongMP]

1/ VF: “In Canada, a government lab’s decision to ship Ebola samples to the WIV set off a scandal that resounded all the way to the office of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and played a role in the dissolution of parliament in the fall of 2021.”

#cdnpoli

https://t.co/VK9h2qVNVh

[Ben Fowler @IamBen_Fowler]

@globeandmail Sigh. Something I've been predicting for a while as almost inevitable due to lack of effective planning

[Ben Fowler @IamBen_Fowler]

A dramatic drop from when I left Canada but something I've been sensing when I return. Feels tragic

[Frank Graves @VoiceOfFranky]

Shared via PowerPoint on Android.

[Project Syndicate @ProSyn]

An OPEC-style coffee “cartel” would have far more bargaining power on prices and tariffs vis-à-vis the Global North, points out @SNUnow's @icatchup. https://t.co/UaSF4UeOkJ

[Ben Fowler @IamBen_Fowler]

Classic case study of American vs. Canadian customer service. Call @ADP USA to make an account change and I have the forms I need emailed to me in 5 minutes. Call ADP Canada and have the complete opposite experience. Not helpful, won't help find a solution, surly, etc.

[Ben Fowler @IamBen_Fowler]

@HSRCanada Does this mean the high frequency rail proposal is dead? The argument was that a lot of ridership comes from smaller communities along the route.

[Ben Fowler @IamBen_Fowler]

Amen. This is a problem affecting most sectors of the Canadian economy. Let's change this.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

My latest, on a pervasive problem in the Canadian economy -- lack of competition -- and its effects: poor service, obscenely high prices and sluggish productivity growth.
https://t.co/MZUEszEka4

[Spencer Greenberg 🔍 @SpencrGreenberg]

I'd like to tell you about one of the biggest and most effortful studies on behavior change ever conducted and its strange findings (that may not even be obvious if you read the paper - I only realized its implications on my 2nd reading!)

Let's begin:

[study megathread]🧵