The cardinal rule of toronto street festivals is you will run into your lovers. You will run into your enemies. Everyone you’ve ever met. Good luck this weekend everyone
so cruel yet so fascinating how you'll have to literally rewire your brain after a certain event while the other person goes on to live their life completely unaffected
Not to be a killjoy, but...
Toronto Tech Week will pass. We'll congratulate ourselves. Some of our already brain-drained young talent may even fly back briefly from San Francisco. We'll tell ourselves what a vibrant "scene" we have.
Meanwhile, our ancient banking, railway, telecom, energy, insurance, and real estate fossils will continue maintaining their vice grip on our economic apparatus. The barriers to scale will remain. The incentives that push ambitious people elsewhere will remain. The structural constraints that limit dynamism will remain.
Vibes are easy. Transformation is hard.
Finished The Brothers Karamazov today. All is like the ocean, all things touch all things. Above all else, do not lie. Love your neighbour. Prayer is an education. Be joyful. Russia is cold.