Author: Dax Nair
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Luxury Brands and Services Are Targeting the HENRYs
As the Uber driver dropped us off, I wondered if we had the address wrong. We were looking for the entrance to a cocktail bar that my daughter had categorized as “secret.” My wife and I were back in San Francisco for the long weekend. The plan was to have a couple of pre-dinner drinks…
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Good Enough – When Failure is an Option
If you have not been paying attention, you may have missed this. There is a shift away from the pursuit of perfection. The world is going with “good enough.” Perfection is dynamic Products and services have to evolve continually and adapt to the needs and wants of consumers. Many successful products of the decade, have…
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Don’t Walk Left – A Perspective on Homelessness
I could see her from a distance. For that matter, I wasn’t sure that it was a woman until she briefly lifted her head to tuck her straggly hair back behind her ear. She didn’t look a lot older than my daughter. She was bent over the garbage bin by the roadside. Looking for food,…
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Living the Dream – A Reality Check!
The patio of the Taj Malabar Hotel is quiet as I sit nursing a drink and working on an e-book for a client. I am in Kochi, a coastal city on the southwest coast of India, often referred to as the Queen of the Arabian Sea. I am living the dream! Travelling and working; mixing…
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Scotland: Beyond Single Malts, Shortbread, and Scarves
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” Robert Louis Stevenson. My Scotland experience started the minute I hopped onto a taxi outside Edinburgh airport. “The Glasshouse Hotel please,” I told the driver as I settled into the backseat of the cab. “Ach aye,” came the reply. As he started…
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Dublin – There isn’t much not to like
My flight from Toronto to Dublin is full. As I settle down into my seat, I notice that my co-passengers are predominantly white and middle-aged. It isn’t a typical transatlantic flight where you find an eclectic mix of travelers. Toronto’s multicultural demography ensures that. It does not take long for me to figure out…
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Living in a Cannabis-Friendly Condominium
The email from the building management had an innocuous subject line. It read: Owner Survey. Typically, surveys are not my thing; but this one was different. The building management rarely sent surveys out. As I read through the questionnaire and the attached “explanatory letter,” I realized that it was a feeler of sorts. The condo…
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Recreational Marijuana: When the Government Sells Pot
After a lengthy political approval process, the Canadian Government recently legalized recreational marijuana. Considering that marijuana has been illegal in Canada since 1923, It’s kind of a big deal! Effective October 17, 2018, you can walk into a designated store and buy marijuana like you would buy beer and cigarettes. As various players such as…
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San Francisco – A City of Parties, Parks, and Protests
The vestiges of the hippie movement are everywhere as I walk down Haight Street in San Francisco. It’s the 41st Haight-Ashbury Street Fair — the annual fair where people come together to remember and celebrate the “Summer of Love.” Pop-up stores peddle psychedelic wear and trinkets to middle-aged tourists who are here to relive the…
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When a Blast Rocks Your Neighbourhood
When I tweeted out to 680 News that there was an unusual level of police activity at the nearby plaza, I didn’t expect it to be anything serious. It was around 11:00 PM when all the commotion caught my attention. For a few minutes, I wondered whether there had been an accident at the Bombay…