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Toronto, 2012.09.20

Today, despite massive exhaustion, I manned a booth at an financial industry annual event.

It was quite an experience. I had a chance to slip into one of the sessions and see some big wheels up from the US speak on a variety of topics. But more importantly, I was speaking to potent clients, other vendors, and other players in the industry about what it is that my employer does.

And I like what we do, and think it's good for the industry and for all Canadians. So that was fun and rewarding.

rand()m quote

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row