Ageism, Aging and Getting Old in Tech

Posted on February 25, 2018August 10, 2025 by Christopher

Respect your elders. This is a seemingly culturally universal sentiment that is older than written language itself. For good reason too. Back in prehistoric times, any member of your species that managed to get old, was either lucky or did something right that helped them survive. A little bit of reverence wouldn’t be a bad […]... Read More

Action Bronson and hip-hop’s problem with misogyny

Posted on July 24, 2015August 10, 2025 by Christopher 2 Comments

So, this week, former chef turned rapper ‘Action Bronson’ has stirred up controversy again. This isn’t terribly surprising, considering his past, but also considering that more often than not, controversy sells tickets. Except for when it doesn’t, and shows get cancelled when the controversy goes over the top. Even though Bronson’s free NXNE show was […]... Read More

Snarky Puppy Live in Montreal

Posted on July 2, 2015August 10, 2025 by Christopher

This Tuesday, I witnessed something pretty spectacular. I went to see Snarky Puppy perform live at Metropolis. Not only was this one of the best live shows I have seen in a while, there were other things I found quite surprising. First of all, the show was sold out. Yes, a jazz fusion show sold […]... Read More

I hate sushi (or so I thought)

Posted on May 10, 2015August 10, 2025 by Christopher 3 Comments

For years – and I mean at least a decade – I’ve been the guy who hates sushi. Most of my friends new it, and certainly the people I was close to knew it. So, whenever we went out or ordered in food, this was an entire category of food removed from consideration. Unfortunately, I […]... Read More

Today is day 60! Tomorrow, day 1 of 72

Posted on April 30, 2015August 10, 2025 by Christopher 2 Comments

The last 70 days have been pretty transformative for me. Some life changes forced me into pretty serious introspection, and motivated me to go down a path of self improvement. There are a number of things I have been working on, some of which I might write about at a later date. One of these […]... Read More

Confidence and being a manly man

Posted on April 22, 2015August 10, 2025 by Christopher 2 Comments

Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of reading about non-verbal communications. Mostly how body language, the tone of your voice, your facial expressions and what you wear can affect the way people feel about the content of your message. In many contexts, these non verbal communications can be even more important than the content of […]... Read More

Fucking Hipsters

Posted on April 6, 2015August 10, 2025 by Christopher 1 Comment

This weekend, a friend of mine posted a somewhat negative rant on Facebook berating hipsters for being shallow and unauthentic. The post shocked me, not only because I know that this friend is a really kind and generally very positive person, but because I saw some of myself in this post. A year ago, I […]... Read More

Nick Hanauer, inequity and TED

Posted on June 27, 2014August 10, 2025 by Christopher

I just read this really great article written by Nick Hanauer for Politico.com. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it. In my view, it’s a great argument by an extremely wealthy entrepreneur with the aim of convincing other entrepreneurs that social inequity is not only bad, but dangerous and self-defeating for plutocrats like […]... Read More

Music I wrote as a teenager

Posted on May 18, 2014August 10, 2025 by Christopher

Back when I was in high school and CEGEP, I thought that I was definitely going to be a composer. I spent all of my years in high school completely immersed in Bach and Mozart. Especially fugues, I was all about fugues — Die Kunst der Fuge totally blew my mind, especially contrapunctus III and […]... Read More

Merci Mme. Marois

Posted on April 8, 2014August 10, 2025 by Christopher 3 Comments

Schadenfreude is fun and all, and Marois was far from perfect, but let’s not forget a few things: She was our provinces first woman premier. I’m sure there were many glass ceilings that she had to break through to get there. She served the public for almost 35 years! She shut down the shameful practice […]... Read More

Christopher Murtagh

Ponderer, feminist, musician and dad.

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