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Toronto, 2015.05.05

I met a friend for drinks tonight at the pub under the Strathcona Hotel. It's a bit of a perfunctory setting, as if the hotel decided they needed a pub, but didn't have a suitable place to build one. Windowless, unadorned, and furnished with a hodge-podge of styles, it did however stand out in two ways:

1. The food was good and came quickly.

2. The service overall was quite good.

Still, it felt like a reasonable place to plan treachery.

rand()m quote

Over the long term the only alternative to Risk Management is Crisis Management. Crisis Management is much more embarrassing, expensive, and time consuming.

—James Lam