A Nostalgic Moment: Early Dot-Com Days

A couple of weekends ago, Lisa and I were visiting the Niagara region for a Chardonnay ‘fest’. For me, the wine-soaked weekend was the last hoorah for an industry that, to be honest, wasn’t a good career choice. I’m sure I’ll touch on that in a different post. That said, we enjoyed ourselves and found ourselves meandering from Niagara On The Lake (NOTL) to Niagara Falls and back to St …

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THE Story of Our Time (Emergence of the Unimyth from Monomyth)

Covid, right? A few years ago, I abandoned the alcohol trade in Ontario because I enjoyed the idea of paying off our mortgage as opposed to expanding it. To paraphrase, the lesson I learned that the ‘how to sell to the LCBO folks’ DON’T tell you is that it’s EXTREMELY difficult to make any money when you try to get between a government monopoly and the suppliers that control it. …

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