Sully Syed

CTO of The Pumping Lemma Company; previously Sr. Director of Technology @GolfCanada and VP of Technology @CFL.

[Sully Syed @sullysyed]

@tofurkey_ Big yikes. Also hope you're settling in well!

[Sully Syed @sullysyed]

@brilliantlabsAR Question: Like a lot of developers, I'm very interesting in building new functionality for Frame! Will I be able to trigger functionality based on a wake word/sequence, and is there an "app store" planned?

[Sully Syed @sullysyed]

@GarBALLER @BDO_Canada @CabotCapeBreton @CopetownWoods @ShaughnessyGolf @_RSPGC 13 different cities! Amazing.

[Sully Syed @sullysyed]

@cfl_reddit @3DownNation @CFL @CFL_News @CFLonTSN @CFLPA @CFL_Headlines @CFL_PR @TSN_Sports @CBSSports @GeniusSports Such an amazing accomplishment; the very definition of building an amazing nationwide community! You should be immensely proud that r/CFL is as busy and hilarious as it is today.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Half of business owners on this #Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % for those who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid
https://t.co/KCc1cD7pzB

[Ben Gilbert @gilbert]

I love this litmus test for if a company has a strong brand or not.

From Seth Godin:

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

Cannot overstate the harm from this: news sector loses hundreds of millions, Canadians face degraded search results, and prominence of low-quality sources increase. Blame squarely on @pablorodriguez who did not take risks of flawed Bill C-18 seriously.
https://t.co/zEMw0oUusE

[Sully Syed @sullysyed]

@richardwarnica I kind of love it. They should set up a checkpoint on the bridge with barbed wire.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via @thediscourse study.

This isn’t just about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice.

#citymakingmath

[Warren Shaeffer @wwshaef]

The advice I most often give to anyone building consumer products:

Reduce time-to-magic.

Your product can be complicated under the hood, but to the user it should feel simple, delightful, and magical — as fast as possible.

Some examples:

• Tik Tok allegedly boosts a user’s first post, making the user feel the magic of distribution without the pain of building a following.

• Uber subsidized the supply side of the market so that a user could hail a car in minutes.

• Tinder first populated the app at USC by paying Sorority members to create profiles, overcoming the empty-room problem.

A good way to improve time-to-magic is to ruthlessly reduce friction in your onboarding.

Try to give as much value as possible upfront.

[Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic]

The cheap urban rents of 1970-2000 were built on a vast supply of aging housing (blue in the chart). 90%+ of the population was paying market rents.

[Sully Syed @sullysyed]

@hypatiadotca There's a way to revert back! https://t.co/hvx2TeF3hU

[Chris Donahoe @ChrisDonahoe]

Shout to my friend @mconfroy and @vestaboard for being in the mix with the big dogs and reimagining what beautiful communications look like in a digital world.

https://t.co/YNqXwQtrGo

[Sully Syed @sullysyed]

@nattywiiine I've bought copies for friends because of you showing it to me!

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

The Dogs of 2022

[Sully Syed @sullysyed]

@MLozada @JFest @vestaboard Love my Stream Deck MK2! I keep thinking of developing a plugin for streamers to be able to pre-program and then 'page' through messages on a Vestaboard.

[Sully Syed @sullysyed]

@ChrisRayanA @GolfCanada Members select the set of tees they play from, and we have the tee distances for most courses in North America - just some simple addition from there!

[Golf Canada @GolfCanada]

Golf Canada’s #MyGolfYear fueled by JOURNIE Rewards is back, and the 2022 edition is loaded with more achievements, more milestones and more fun for every member who logged scores this year. https://t.co/7LDlzvm3N0

[Sully Syed @sullysyed]

@bendersun They do not; the Canadian Armed Forces volunteer to coordinate with the league for PR/visibility purposes.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A facial reconstruction project focusing on ancient Egypt on some of its pharaohs and even normal people

[full video: https://t.co/oYNovDPhxW]