by John Horn | Dec 6, 2023 | Campus Career Centre 3.0, Creativity
During the holidays our team at The Potentiality likes to keep things loose, festive and chock full of helpful ideas to make Christmas/Hanukah/Solstice a legitimate community building experience. We’ve recommended gifts, shared career advice from holiday characters,...
by John Horn | Jun 14, 2023 | Creativity, Have Better Conversations, Pop Culture Career Advice
Cormac McCarthy has passed from this world at the age of 89 and he was an icon of American literature and his real and violent words and stark sentences unabashedly embraced the run-on sentence to paint a real and brutal picture of the world. From my perspective,...
by John Horn | Apr 26, 2023 | Creativity
The novel coronavirus pandemic is a global tragedy. At least one million people have died from the virus. The International Monetary Fund is predicting that the pandemic will cost over $28tn in lost output. How we live and work will never be the same. Consequently,...
by John Horn | Mar 8, 2023 | Creativity, Have Better Conversations, Learning & Thinking
I go to Uptown Barbers in Vancouver’s (Mt. Pleasant ‘hood to get my hair cut every six weeks or so. Marco and Ben – the two barbers who I most often visit – deliver haircuts as good as the banter in their shop. Being able to start and sustain great conversations while...
by John Horn | Feb 22, 2023 | Creativity, Futureproof Kids
This weekend my youngest son burst into the office and proudly showed me his Lego creation – it’s me sipping coffee while riding a “pizza delivery hover bike with other foods, like apples and fried chicken!” And so the Lego Dad Activity was...
by John Horn | Dec 21, 2022 | Creativity, Futureproof Kids
Christmas is this Sunday. Christmas carols are a cool part of the holidays. About a month ago, my oldest son’s music class was asked what Christmas carol they should perform for the school’s concert. He recommended “Christmas in Hollis” by Run DMC because he really...
