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Colin Savage

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Chief Change Officer
#82 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part Two

Oh, I got to go get that PhD in writing. Or I need to go in this thing that I've been invested in for a long time and I enjoy reading about and it is a form of learning. Doesn't need to be something that I'm going to incorporate into my work life. And I purposely keep it separate.

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#82 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part Two

Oh, I got to go get that PhD in writing. Or I need to go in this thing that I've been invested in for a long time and I enjoy reading about and it is a form of learning. Doesn't need to be something that I'm going to incorporate into my work life. And I purposely keep it separate.

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#82 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part Two

And that's the same thing of the musical instrument that happened to be gathered in bust, unfortunately, in the back of my room. Those are also skills that I'm learning throughout my life just for my own enjoyment. And I'm totally with you on the law of the instrument, right? If everything, if you've got a hammer and you're good at it, then everything will look like a needle.

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#82 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part Two

And that's the same thing of the musical instrument that happened to be gathered in bust, unfortunately, in the back of my room. Those are also skills that I'm learning throughout my life just for my own enjoyment. And I'm totally with you on the law of the instrument, right? If everything, if you've got a hammer and you're good at it, then everything will look like a needle.

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#82 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part Two

I sit on a number of groups where we support startups and tech founders and entrepreneurs. And the drive to just leap to the solution because I think I can sell a widget to somebody rather than understanding to your point, like, is this actually a problem or is this set over something else? It just drives me nuts.

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#82 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part Two

I sit on a number of groups where we support startups and tech founders and entrepreneurs. And the drive to just leap to the solution because I think I can sell a widget to somebody rather than understanding to your point, like, is this actually a problem or is this set over something else? It just drives me nuts.

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#82 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part Two

And so we're just going to end up with now the toolkit is going to have 7,000 tools, 6,800 of which I don't know how to use, and 50 that are actually useful for me to figure out any kind of a dilemma that I'm referring to. I think, yeah, I think you've done a good job of reminding me that Maybe the lifelong learning thing should be just for life.

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#82 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part Two

And so we're just going to end up with now the toolkit is going to have 7,000 tools, 6,800 of which I don't know how to use, and 50 that are actually useful for me to figure out any kind of a dilemma that I'm referring to. I think, yeah, I think you've done a good job of reminding me that Maybe the lifelong learning thing should be just for life.

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#82 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part Two

And the guilt that can should be where we focus on potentially getting the right kind of multi-skilled person who, to your point, doesn't just look down and build a tool, but is able to interact with others, is able to be empathetic, show emotional intelligence, all those kind of things.

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#82 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part Two

And the guilt that can should be where we focus on potentially getting the right kind of multi-skilled person who, to your point, doesn't just look down and build a tool, but is able to interact with others, is able to be empathetic, show emotional intelligence, all those kind of things.

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#82 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part Two

And I think maybe sometimes get sharp to the side over the let's build the technical experience, skill ourselves up with now I know not just C++, but I also know all of these other JavaScript and other kind of software so I can build my own AI model. Let's go, right?

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#82 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part Two

And I think maybe sometimes get sharp to the side over the let's build the technical experience, skill ourselves up with now I know not just C++, but I also know all of these other JavaScript and other kind of software so I can build my own AI model. Let's go, right?

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#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

Thank you so much for having me, Vincent. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, everyone.

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

Thank you so much for having me, Vincent. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, everyone.

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#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

Fantastic. Thank you, Vince. Happy to. So I'm Colin, as you introduced, Colin Davidge. I am hailing today from the Queen City, which was Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. And so I was born and raised here. I lived here until I was probably just out of university. And then I left and lived overseas for 20 years. That really isn't that uncommon.

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#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

Fantastic. Thank you, Vince. Happy to. So I'm Colin, as you introduced, Colin Davidge. I am hailing today from the Queen City, which was Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. And so I was born and raised here. I lived here until I was probably just out of university. And then I left and lived overseas for 20 years. That really isn't that uncommon.

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#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

During the early 90s in Saskatchewan, a lot of people looked for opportunities elsewhere. And even if I look at sort of my high school graduating class drawings, 60, 70% of them stayed in the city and went to our local university. Another chunk maybe went to a university nearby or a neighboring province. And a very small bit even left and moved elsewhere in Canada, like she mentioned, Ontario.

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#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

During the early 90s in Saskatchewan, a lot of people looked for opportunities elsewhere. And even if I look at sort of my high school graduating class drawings, 60, 70% of them stayed in the city and went to our local university. Another chunk maybe went to a university nearby or a neighboring province. And a very small bit even left and moved elsewhere in Canada, like she mentioned, Ontario.

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#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

But very few people went further than that. I finished university armed with a great liberal arts degree and a degree in English literature, which obviously at the time when everybody was banging down my door to give me a job, But I needed to go. I needed to go somewhere else. So I left with that degree and with some other experience and decided to test Asia.

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#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

But very few people went further than that. I finished university armed with a great liberal arts degree and a degree in English literature, which obviously at the time when everybody was banging down my door to give me a job, But I needed to go. I needed to go somewhere else. So I left with that degree and with some other experience and decided to test Asia.