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I Am Everything You Hate About Vancity Buzz

Reading Time: 2 minutes Like many, I lament the sorry state of journalism today. The problem as a whole is well-documented – this piece from Esquire says it better than I could. This lack of journalistic quality, however, has extended beyond news into every piece of content we consume. There are a couple reasons for this. For one, modern social media has […]

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Economies of Skill: The False Narrative of Basketball Success

Reading Time: 5 minutes In the summer of 2004 at 13 years old, I told my parents that one of my goals in life was to play basketball for UBC. In the fall of 2012, that goal became a reality. I became the first player to ‘walk on’ (make the team via tryouts) to UBC in over a decade. […]

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From Outputs To Inputs (or: How a Spreadsheet Saved my Dating Life)

Reading Time: 3 minutes When I started as an intern a year ago at Lighthouse Labs, one of my first projects was to implement metrics for gauging the success of our marketing efforts. Since we were a startup, I had the flexibility to do this whichever way I felt was best. Although I was fresh out of school, I took […]