A Musing by Hayden Tay

Finally, an update!

hayden — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:21:07 +0000

Posted in Life

So, this blog really isn’t working out too well is it? Things have been a little crazy since I last blogged. These things happened: I found an apartment, moved to Toronto! Did the craziest shopping trip of my life to get furniture Started work, loving it, got to do some really interesting things for it [...]

Change: A New Job, New City, New Home

hayden — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:34:33 +0000

Posted in Career Life

I didn’t expect to fall off my writing goals that quickly, but… I have good reason for it! I’ve been extremely busy over the past week, but ridiculously excited for this Fall, because I GOT A JOB! I will be interning at Entrinsic, a digital communications agency, until the end of February 2012. I’m really excited that this is [...]

JFDI

hayden — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:27:56 +0000

Posted in Entrepreneurship

I learnt quite a few things during my stint at Velocity. My favourite philosophy that was really articulated and expressed to me was the idea of JFDI. What is JFDI, you ask? What is JFDI and Why Just. F******. Do. It. It is a very simplistic idea, but I think that this philosophy holds a [...]

TED Video: Compassion

hayden — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:58:44 +0000

Posted in Random

My first TED talk I’m discussing is Joan Halifax’s talk on compassion and the true meaning of empathy. It is a pretty good talk, and I would definitely recommend a watch. Keep in mind though that this was presented at TEDWomen, and was clearly to move a mainly female audience. This video caught my attention as [...]

Refresh

hayden — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:38:50 +0000

Posted in Life

For the past week, I’ve been working on a site redesign as well as setting various goals in terms of self-enrichment. In refreshing this blog, I also decided to repurpose this blog a little. The repurposing of the blog is to achieve two aims: Represent myself better – I want to be more authentic in [...]

Social Media doesn’t make BFFs

hayden — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:54:22 +0000

Posted in Social Media

If you work in social media (or want to work in it like I do), you probably follow some big names who have been tweeting about Trey Pennington lately. For those unaware, he committed suicide, an act that surprised and shocked many in the social media community. There has been a lot of lament and overall sadness, [...]

How fast an earthquake travels on the internet

hayden — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:34:15 +0000

Posted in Social Media

So if you haven’t heard (although I’m not sure how you haven’t), there was an earthquake that happened in Virginia today. Tremors were felt in KW, Toronto etc. I was on the bus, and didn’t feel anything. However, I was on my phone, and this is how I found out: And this is how the [...]

Google+!

hayden — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:05:00 +0000

Posted in Social Media

I’ve gotta say, I’m quickly becoming a big fan of Google+. There’s a ton of reviews out there already, but I’m going to chime in my 2 cents about what I like/dislike, as well as my thoughts on how Google+ will change the landscape of social media. Things I like Asymmetric relationships - This is a key [...]

Rainbows and Unicorns for RIM

hayden — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:37:57 +0000

Posted in Technology

If you haven’t heard about RIM and the doom and gloom reports about it lately, you must either be a hermit. Or not from Canada. For those who don’t know, RIM recently experienced quite a few bumps such as significantly worse than expected company performance, layoffs, share price drops etc. There’s even been a few [...]

The Canadian Brain Drain

hayden — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:37:20 +0000

Posted in Entrepreneurship Politics

Google’s recent acquisition of Postrank made a lot of waves in the local community – there was a lot of excitement and all around happiness that a local startup was able to catch the attention of one of the Tech Big Four. In the midst of all the excitement, a couple of Twitter posts caught [...]