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Author: Eric Brooke

I’m deeply curious, love to learn, insightful about people and their psychological makeup, deft at communication, excel at networking, deeply tech-savvy and relish growing others through education and leadership. I am a developer, marketeer, gamer, lover of water slides and ice cream :-)
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Weatherproofing/Weatherization our home

27 May 202512 Jul 2025
Get to know your Weather It is always worth looking at what weather your house could experience as understanding this could lead to you saving more money and protect the…
Home

Saving money and electrifying our home – Canada

25 May 202525 May 2025
We live in Toronto, Canada which has all four seasons (with current weather being broadly very cold winters and warm summers) and our house is about 100 years old. It…
Technology

Learning about Electrical work in Canada

5 Nov 20236 Nov 2023
I took a pre-apprenticeship course in electrical work. Does this mean I am now a licensed electrician? Nope! That takes five years in Ontario, Canada working as an Apprentice. Consider…
Fun

A trip to Newfoundland

25 Sep 202325 Oct 2023
Back when I became a Canadian citizen, I promised myself to visit each Canadian Province and Terrority. After spending ten years in British Columbia, a Health Hacking event in Yukon,…
Communcation…

Ownership – How it can go wrong – Part 2

7 Jun 20235 Jul 2023
This is a five-part set of blog posts on Ownership. The first you can find here. No approach is perfect, most things can be done wrong with unintentional consequences. I…
Change Management…

Ownership in Small and Medium Technology Companies – Part 1

10 May 20238 Aug 2023
This post is part of a series on Scaling Small and Medium Technology companies. I will start with a hypothesis for each of the topics I explore in this series.…
Leadership…

Scaling for Small and Medium Technology Companies

27 Apr 202314 Jun 2023
I've noticed many articles, books, and blog posts for Technology Leadership / Management are written by people who now or recently worked in Big Tech (Maybe they have more time…
Games…

Pax Unplugged December 2022

30 Jan 202325 Oct 2023
Summary If you are a board gamer you should check out Pax Unplugged. Also, there was a lot of good food in Philadelphia. RPGs were most overbooked by a LOT,…
Human…

We are humans not resources

2 Nov 202120 Jun 2023
I strive to never refer to another Human as a resource. I see this as diminishing another human. It encourages the use of humans as cogs in a factory, merely…
Career Management

Becoming a CTO

26 Feb 202122 Jun 2023
What did it take? Growth through others Hard work and long hours Aggressive Learning Thinking through many scenarios Strategy and policies Make Decisions Constantly evolving the way I communicate Leadership…

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