A habit I picked up from an old flame In 2017 I met a girl on Tinder. Her name was Tiana. Over the course of a few weeks we went on a handful of dates around Toronto, but at the end of it all I didn’t feel like we were…

The story of why I am changing my name (kind of…) — Hi! My name is David. Okay, stop. Pause for just a second. How did you pronounce my name in your head when you read that opening sentence? I would suspect that most of you read it as “Day-vid.” For the first 25 years of my life that is how I…

True story — Beeeep. Beeeep. Beeeep. He stares at their alarm clock and the bright red “5:30” stares back at him. It provides the only source of light in the room. She lays awake beside him. By now their weekend routine is ingrained in their bodies — the alarm is only a formality. …

A lesson for social impact practitioners with grand ideals for impact — It’s 10:49PM. I just got off the phone with a representative from World Vision Canada to talk about Umalalay, the business idea my team and I developed for the World Vision Social Innovation Challenge. The competition wrapped up a month and a half ago. My team lost. The challenge aimed…

When I moved to Canada one of the first things I noticed was how different television ads are here. Canadian ads are just plain boring compared to the ones I grew up with in South Africa. Need proof? Just google any “But with Aromat!” …

Why I left my job amidst the coronavirus outbreak and the 8 things I am doing to stay sane in my free time — In January I decided to leave my job. In March the coronavirus hit high gear, the world went on lockdown, the economy grinded to a halt and all hopes of getting a job in the near future disappeared. For the past year I worked as a data analyst for a…