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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.

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One day you will take a fork in the road, and you're going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go the other way and you can do something [...] for yourself. If you decide to do something, you may not get promoted and get good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won't have to compromise yourself. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you have to make a decision. To be or to do.

—John Boyd, US Air Force