That farm is actually in Saskatchewan . She never gets Saskatchewan right. So I could type-- I could probably type on my iPhone-- how's that for product placement-- on my phone
And I just asked if I could tour the Mountie boot camp place. Like in Saskatchewan , all Mounties are trained to become Mounties. And they offered me a two-day boot camp pass, so I could train with the Mounties for two days.
They were all volunteers. And many were farm boys from Saskatchewan or places like that. And you know a thing or two about life there.
As you saw in the very first video, I work on a farm. That farm is actually in Saskatchewan . She never gets Saskatchewan right.
And so they moved west. So you get all the way west to Saskatchewan , and there's that wonderful science fiction writer named Karl Schroeder, who is a second, multigenerational Mennonite. His father was a Mennonite TV repairman.
this is the short answer to this question learning what very Posner and I found in our research along with Lillis Braun from University of Saskatchewan in Canada is that the leaders who learn more and are engaged in more learning more frequently become the best leaders now that's no surprise to anyone in this
Medical Association, right? Based here. Why? Because they were afraid the contagion would spread south. And they led a, like three-week strike of Canadian doctors, but Tommy Douglas won. And they adopted Medicare in Saskatchewan . Then he traversed Canada until it was adopted everywhere. Extremely popular program in Canada. Um, I'm telling the guards this story, the Canadian guards. This is the Canadian side of the border. I said, "I don't really get it. I'm being detained here. Sara Palin just came here and trashed your system! She was
And over the course of a year, he ended up with a house. Now, I believe the house was like in Saskatchewan , but it still was a house, okay? So I thought I was being very generous giving these students ten paper clips.
And when I went into my dreams and wrote them down in the middle of the night, they were poems. That's when poetry happened was in the '60s in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan , when the images of dreams came through. And that was the beginning of poetry, for me.
It's just a matter-of-fact history of how Microsoft came to be, what it's like, how it operates, what the people are like there. And I'm reading this book and I become really entranced by it and fascinated because it sounds like exactly the place I want to be. But I'm in Saskatchewan , so what am I going to do about it? What I wound up doing was, I had put myself through school with a program called HyperCache, which is a file system cache for the Amiga because the Amiga didn't have
And I went through the whole stack looking for anybody with a Microsoft email address. And I found maybe three or four people, and I just cold-emailed them and said, "Hey, I'm an operating system student in Saskatchewan looking for an opportunity." I don't remember exactly what I said. But one guy, Alasdair, Alasdair Banks, he wrote back and he said, "I know somebody that I can put you in contact with."
some note and where he proposed something, but there was a lot of information so the margins were thinner. And so Hoover said, "Your plan is fine, but watch the borders." And what he meant was watch the borders of your memo, but instead, they panicked and they sent FBI agents to the Rio Grande and to Saskatchewan , or whatever, to watch the borders because they thought he meant watch the borders of the United States. So as a leader, if people are intimidated by you, if you're blaming, you paradoxically are less
What I basically do is I, uh, read excerpts of columns", I said, "and I riff off them." So I was going to start with the last column, um, which is about Tommy Douglas, title "Healthcare Reform Needs an Action Hero". Tommy Douglas, who is considered the greatest Canadian. He was the Premier of Saskatchewan in the early 60's. Well, when he was a kid he almost lost his leg, and a doctor offered to, uh, help him for free. He was poor, and so when he grew up and he became a politician, he thought, "The one thing I want to bring to Canada is