Ehren Cheung

"The problem with telecommuting continues to be the "trust" factor. It's funny how companies can't seem to overcome that hurdle. I honestly would love to telecommute, it'd save me so much money *cough* metropass *cough* ... and time. On another note... to reduce traffic -- Toronto should just set up tolls on roads already like London, England. Forget increasing taxes or TTC fares, we have a transportation budget that has to take care of the roads, set up the tolls and have all the cars coming into Toronto help pay the costs -- then use some of that transportation budget to ramp up transit to make it more enticing for people to use." - Ehren Cheung

"Shey this is a great write up. My tardiness aside in responding (I know... busyness), I think the amount of affirmation on friendfeed is relatively high but it's low by comparison to twitter. My involvement on twitter has unfortunately very gradually declined because of the repetition and constant affirmation. It doesn't only apply to tech posts, this problem applies to every topic ranging from ebooks to creativity -- it's a massive cultivation of groupthink. Maybe I've become philosophical or too introspective (not to take from your blog's name) ... Very few ideas are challenged seriously, fewer are built upon into something larger, and even fewer controversial ideas are discussed. I'm not attempting to be negative but it's as if everyone is adverse to discourse. Some may say that twitter isn't the proper forum for it and that may be true but if people aren't even willing to respond with a few words to disagree, it illustrates to me (at least) that the probability of them responding..." - Ehren Cheung