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Alistair Croll

@acroll.bsky.social

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ADHD as a career. Startups (Lean Analytics, Startupfest); fixing government (FWD50); subversive thinking (justevilenough.com) Montreal, or seat 13D.

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Alistair Croll @acroll.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Not calling shenanigans yet, but: My partner and I have lived at the same Montreal address since 2018, and voted while living here. I got no voting card; she got a vote-by-mail card she didn’t request. The elections website couldn’t tell us where to vote based on our postal code. Anyone else?

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Alistair Croll @acroll.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

In Canada, apparently the salt box outside the door doubles as a package delivery area. Lovely photo to receive from the shipper. As we know all too well from justevilenough.com, last-mile logistics are hard.

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Alistair Croll @acroll.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Some elevator rides just hit different.

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Alistair Croll @acroll.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Wrapped day 5 of recording the audiobook for @evilenough.bsky.social. Just a few pages left. The best part is the studio tech telling me in between chapters how he’s going to apply all the ideas to his own business. Did not expect.

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Alistair Croll @acroll.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

As a result, English has two words for everything. Don’t believe me? Check out this list. (HT to David Perell for his original post, which has another list of words - perell.com/note/balance...)

A list of Saxon and Latinate words:
Saxon Latinate
Give Donate
Build Construct
Help Assist
Watch Observe
Buy Purchase
Meet Encounter
End Terminate
Make Manufacture
Speak Articulate
Death Mortality
Work Labor

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Alistair Croll @acroll.bsky.social · 31/05/2023

Just finished Cory Doctorow’s Red Team Blues. Great read, based on actual tech, with smart protagonists and familiar settings. Enjoyed it in a can’t-put-down way that happens less and less with fiction.

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Alistair Croll @acroll.bsky.social · 26/05/2023

Cabbage for dinner means science for breakfast.

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Alistair Croll @acroll.bsky.social · 07/05/2023

This photo is making the rounds. Pythagoras’ outrage is unwarranted. Careful readers will note that a feef is 1.414 feet, letting the diagonals be 6 feet and the bottom line 8.485 feet. It’s not to scale. I like to believe the graphic designer, outraged at the bad math, did this on purpose.

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Alistair Croll @acroll.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

Chicago deep dish is the love child of a baker and a lasagne. Now I need Lipitor and an insulin pump.

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Alistair Croll @acroll.bsky.social · 30/04/2023

BRB, scouting cars for eighties dictators.

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