by Kurt Heinrich | Apr 4, 2018 | Creativity, Pop Culture Career Advice
My wife and I love zombie movies and Netflix has one our favourites. Resident Evil is based on a zombie-hunting video game by Capcom. In the film, the Umbrella Corporation – a company of profound political and economic power – operates a secret research facility...
by Kurt Heinrich | Feb 14, 2018 | Creativity, Pop Culture Career Advice
It’s Valentines Day today and I recently watched Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts light up the screen and box office with the romantic comedy Notting Hill on Netflix. In case you missed it, the film tells the story of ordinary William Thacker, an everyday English...
by Kurt Heinrich | Jan 24, 2018 | Business & Entrepreneurship, Creativity, Pop Culture Career Advice
Made in America tells the fictionalized (or Tom-Cruise-ified) story of Barry Seal, a maverick TWA pilot who, in the 1970s, gave up the monotony of flying commercial planes to fly missions for the CIA in Central America. In the film, what begins as hot-shot spy...
by Kurt Heinrich | Sep 27, 2017 | Creativity
This September I head back to work after a six month paternity leave. It’s been a great half a year full of plenty of morning snuggles, afternoon coffee meandering, rambunctious baby-time at the library, and more pool time than I ever thought possible. As this chapter...
by Kurt Heinrich | Jul 26, 2017 | Creativity, Pop Culture Career Advice
Back to the Future is an American cinematic classic. The story of Marty McFly traveling through time to the year 1955 (and then into the future) in a tricked out DeLorean time machine has got everything: cool sci-fi premise, great acting by Michael J Fox and...
by Kurt Heinrich | Mar 8, 2017 | Creativity, Futureproof Kids
My son will turn one this year and I worry we’ll feel pressure to throw him a big party this October (and pretty much every other October until he hits puberty). While my son won’t be aware of Canadian birthday party traditions this young, my wife and I sure are....
