A conversation I had with Raju Mudhar of the Toronto Star’s This Matters podcast on the history and future of brain-computer interfaces.
How to think about private sector careers if you’re a neuroscience student (or postdoc)
Last weekend I had the good fortune to participate in a panel at Neuromatch Academy on career development for neuroscience students. If you’re a student who’s only ever experienced academia – and especially if your advisors have only ever seen academia – it can be hard to break out of academo-normative thinking and conceptualize the
Podcast interview with physiological computing pioneer Prof. Stephen Fairclough
Prof. Fairclough and I got into a great discussion about practical BCIs on the sidelines of the Neuroadaptive Technology Conference in Liverpool in the summer of 2019. Here’s the podcast.
The Agenda on TVO: Billionaires Debate
Here’s a fun debate in which Sean Speer and I took on Armine Yalnizian and Linda McQuaig on the topic of whether billionaires should be taxed out of existence. It aired in January 2020 on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin.
Should we feel sorry for Canadian billionaires?
Wealth inequality is not about billionaires. It’s about your house.
On non-compete clauses, workers, and the Canadian economy
I had some comments on non-compete clauses in Christine Dobby’s excellent Globe & Mail article, Sign here: Why the increasing use of non-compete clauses is bad for employees, and the economy.
Podcast interview (OMD Ventures)
Here’s a discussion I had with Daniel Lee, the compelling founder of OMD Ventures.
Direct-to-Consumer Neurotechnology: is this stuff all nonsense?
No. It’s not all nonsense, but some of it definitely is. This article from Diana Kwon does a good job of discussing some of the industry’s challenges (with a quote from yours truly).
CES 2019 talk on neurotech for brain health
Chris Aimone and I were fortunate to be given the opportunity to present from the Digital Health Summit stage at CES 2019. Here’s what we said.
BrainHack Toronto 2018 Talk
I really enjoyed giving this talk, on neurotechnology as a career and how to move from academic science into business, at BrainHack Toronto 2018.