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🧗🏽‍♀️Curious about almost everything. Fostering deep thinkers & strong communicators through discussion @parlayseminars & @parlayideas

Toronto, Ontario
Joined August 2021
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2 months
Found the cleanest, most beautiful garbage can in Toronto
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Very underrated Toronto feature: the mountain biking trails in the Don Valley. The network is quite extensive. Accessible via you-know-which-end of the city.
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3 years
This is 👌🏼. I found a new appreciation for Montessori after each slide from today’s lecture from @mbateman
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1 month
Tonight a group of thoughtful individuals came together for the first RoundTable at @535Toronto . The topic was UBI, but our 2+ hour conversation explored a lot: - how UBI is different from our current social systems - would it cost more? - giving out $$ vs food stamps -
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3 months
In the early days, Parlay was based out of a house in the east end on Shuter St. Sumach Espresso & the quickest possible Figs lunches fuelled us through crazy growth during the pandemic. Never thought I’d be back to this side of the city, but @535Toronto made me do it.
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5 months
Show & Tell with the 1% @melkuo showing off send a posty @535Toronto
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2 months
ideas for dinner
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14 days
Just wrapped up RoundTable #2 on Ambition: Does Canada Have Enough of It? Plenty of thoughtful and diverse ideas. Below is a glimpse: - How relative is ambition? - Is wanting power ambitious? - Macbeth’s tragic case - Fear-based vs love-based ambition - Conventional vs
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24 days
RoundTable #2 - Ambition: Does Canada have enough of it? Thurs, Sept 5th @ 5:35 @535Toronto Register 👉🏼 Free - What is ambition? - Is it important to be ambitious? - What fosters/limits ambition for startups/businesses? - Does Canada have an ambition
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24 days
Stumbled upon these guys on the walk home. Maybe Toronto’s gonna be alright.
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24 days
RoundTable #2 - Ambition: Does Canada have enough of it? Thurs, Sept 5th @ 5:35 @535Toronto Register 👉🏼 Free - What is ambition? - Is it important to be ambitious? - What fosters/limits ambition for startups/businesses? - Does Canada have an ambition
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Anna Lisa
2 months
My apartment gets one slice of light for ~15 mins per day. Today it showed up in this strange shape that looks like Kanye tears. Motif on point.
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7 days
I went to the All In Summit in LA this week. Spending time with genuine, open-minded and agentic people IRL is the best. For the second year, I left energized & full of ideas Here are some of the ideas I’m still thinking about…🧵 “Extreme optimism and extreme pessimism are
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Anna Lisa
4 months
Enlightenment era salon vibes, but for builders @535Toronto @kerooke @aiouy
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Anna Lisa
2 months
New neural pathways unlocked today. @mattyj612 ’s Toronto tours are seriously 10/10.
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Anna Lisa
2 months
Lap 32 complete. Thankful for another year of this eclectic life. And for inconspicuous Kanye lyrics.
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30 days
Spotting the CN tower from a new angle is so satisfying
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Anna Lisa
24 days
RoundTable #2 - Ambition: Does Canada have enough of it? Thurs, Sept 5th @ 5:35 @535Toronto Register 👉🏼 Free - What is ambition? - Is it important to be ambitious? - What fosters/limits ambition for startups/businesses? - Does Canada have an ambition
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Anna Lisa
16 days
What message does Toronto send?
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Anna Lisa
24 days
RoundTable #2 - Ambition: Does Canada have enough of it? Thurs, Sept 5th @ 5:35 @535Toronto Register 👉🏼 Free - What is ambition? - Is it important to be ambitious? - What fosters/limits ambition for startups/businesses? - Does Canada have an ambition
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1 month
I have a dream that one day I’ll walk into @ServiceOntario and it will feel like the Apple Store.
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Anna Lisa
2 months
I’m planning an experimental RoundTable event at @535Toronto for curious & thoughtful individuals to gather for deep discussion into one topic. Which topic most interests you?
UBI: solution or problem?
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2 months
RoundTable #1 : Universal Basic Income: Solution or Problem? Wed, Aug 7 @535Toronto Register: Limited availability We’ll explore: ⁃Why it’s proposed as a solution to AI’s impact on the future of work ⁃Results from initial research studies ⁃Its
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Anna Lisa
22 days
When the city has a small town vibe 💜
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Anna Lisa
2 years
@tommycollison This is great
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5 months
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3 months
@_kelindi tbh I think I can see sounds rn
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Anna Lisa
5 months
flow state convos through high park >>>
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huss
5 months
Toronto we did it. Biggest turnout for Walk and Talk #6 , packed with the best people. It’s comeback season. Thank you for everything.
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1 year
Still processing the #AllInSummit , but what Larry Summers said seems to sum up the dialogue and meaningful exchange of ideas over the past few days: “Academic freedom should be an absolute. But that doesn’t mean it’s free from criticism.” @theallinpod
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Anna Lisa
1 month
@fahdananta Can’t believe I come across as woke but I’ll take it 🤝🏼
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Anna Lisa
2 months
@fahdananta This tweet lives rent free in my head
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Gena Gorlin
2 years
Among the hardest & most vital facts of reality to reckon with are: the tremendous heights that others of your current age, ability, & means have gone on to achieve; the tremendous struggle by which they did it; & the fact that you could, but need not, choose to do the same.
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Anna Lisa
2 months
💯. Parlay discussions are structured so that students practice thinking independently AND integrate other views. 1. Articulate your initial ideas in writing (before seeing others) 2. Read others' ideas & respond 3. Get feedback on your ideas 4. Have a verbal group discussion
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Gena Gorlin
2 months
People talk about "caring too much what others think," as though this were a proxy for intellectual independence In fact, though, the two things are basically orthogonal
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Anna Lisa
7 days
"I loved every minute of working there but when you fall in love again, you don't think of the ex that much.” - @travisk 😂
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Anna Lisa
1 month
More to come. Topic suggestions welcome. 🙏🏼
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4 months
overheard: “yeah I want to do the least amount of work possible so I’m gunna try to get a government job” How does one not get deeply disturbed by this?
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Anna Lisa
1 month
People are thinking deeply about this stuff. The lights are on. But sometimes our environments don’t allow for deep exploration of spicy topics.
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Anna Lisa
2 months
@KadriJibraan “& all I’m hearing is that we the greatest around, to the grave imma rep my town” everyone just needs to rewatch Kardinal’s “The Anthem”
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Anna Lisa
7 days
And lastly, "I optimize for friendship." - @Jason These events connect me with my favourite kind of people and I'm so grateful for it. Thanks @theallinpod for building a media brand that stands for a love for truth, discussion, open mindedness and friendship. 🫡 @chamath
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Anna Lisa
9 days
A girl I met went up to a guy in a Google shirt to ask him where she can get the free cloud credits. It was Sergei. 😮‍💨
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Anna Lisa
14 days
The @535Toronto community has some really smart people, man. Such good energy. Thanks to everyone who contributed. 🙏🏼💜
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Anna Lisa
2 months
@via_benjamin @fahdananta maybe naive but I don’t even think it’s intentional. The current political process rewards bandaid solutions that appear empathetic but produce opposite outcomes in the long term.
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Anna Lisa
11 days
“If you find someone that agrees with you 100% of the time, they’re either lying or not thinking for themselves. And those are two very dangerous things.” - @SenatorSinema Absolutely electric opening speakers at #allinsummit2024
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4 months
Doors Open Toronto is my favourite event in this city. Each spring, the buildings with notable historical significance & architectural highlights open their doors to the public for free. This year, I had a few profoundly inspirational moments walking through churches.🧵
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Anna Lisa
7 days
In disagreement on America's power role on the world stage, John Mearsheimer explained, "In my heart I'm with Jeff, in my head I'm not with Jeff". I thought this was such an endearing and appropriate way to express disagreement on a complex topic with a friend.
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1 month
My main takeaway is quality of the dialogue. Coming in, we each had different views for different reasons, but we found common ground on much more than expected.
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Anna Lisa
2 years
@waitbutwhy Plato described memory as a wax block that could be imprinted, impressed upon, erased and used again. Wildly fitting to how Play-Doh is a toy that facilitates a child’s representation of ideas and is remoulded again and again.
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Anna Lisa
2 months
@fahdananta The momentum is strong and it’s already a solid group of people that really care. Just need more of it. More experiments and events, and led by different characters so the different facets can shine and bring others in. Count me in to host a RoundTable on deep dive topics
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Anna Lisa
7 days
@eoghan Gena wrote a fantastic piece on this!
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Gena Gorlin
6 months
There are two types of concerns I get when talking to founders (and other ambitious people) about money: 1. They care about getting rich, but feel like they shouldn’t. 2. They don’t care about getting rich, but feel like they should.
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Anna Lisa
3 years
@all_in_tok @friedberg Re: #4 I think he was referring to Lifetime value of a customer (LTV)
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2 months
@melkuo The bridges are the closest thing to Hogwarts this city has to offer
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17 days
Labour Day made me even more excited to work
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4 months
@APompliano Charter Schools and Their Enemies by Thomas Sowell
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1 month
@saleh_digital Contribute to our progress as a species in a direction that aligns to your worldview. The process of looking inward & looking outward to determine what that actually looks like can be deeply meaningful to integrate your life’s values.
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“What we heard consistently [from speakers at the summit], is to find and speak the truth, without being told what the truth should be and what we are supposed to think.” - @friedberg
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7 days
“What are kids fired up about? If you could say ‘you could be an astronaut on Mars, maybe one day go beyond the solar system, we could make Star Trek real!’ That is an exciting future. That is inspiring. You need things that move your heart.” - @elonmusk & of course, “It should
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Anna Lisa
3 months
There’s a Heraclitus quote above the DVP that’s basically “you can’t step in the same river twice”. An acknowledgement of fundamental change, but also this part of the city. It’s especially synchronous to be back here as a different person, in a different phase of the journey.
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Anna Lisa
2 months
@melkuo Positive feedback loops are huge IMO. Might be a jump but there’s a popular meta analysis on the factors that influence student achievement the most. Top of the list by far is “collective teacher efficacy” aka system morale that “we believe we can accomplish great things”
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2 months
@andreasklinger @Gena_I_Gorlin is 10/10. She also has a fantastic blog, Building the Builders, where she shares her frameworks/examples.
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Anna Lisa
3 months
^obviously fuelled by an iced cortado thanks to @saleh_digital
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2 months
This pov is 10x more interesting / inspiring than the average influencer
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25 min of following 1yo, sped up 10x to 2.5 min Nearly zero interference or even interaction as he severally pursued his little side quests I love this age
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3 years
Solzhenitsyn’s famous line is so much more powerful with just a little more context.
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Anna Lisa
2 years
@parlayideas A3 - a class discussion after an exceptionally emotional game of capture the flag in PE class was most memorable. Students were all SO engaged, willing to share their ideas AND listen to others on how to play the game fairly. #learnlap
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28 days
A disproportionate number of my friends are dating people who lived in different cities when they first met. At first I thought maybe my friends are just super open-minded. But maybe getting to know someone over a longer time frame builds that foundation better than the
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5 months
@wetarynitup @Uncensored_AI Yeah, that’s my theory. The brain is like “This is a lot. More than usual. Activate marathon mode.” but you can’t quickly turn it off.
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4 months
@fahdananta @535Toronto @Gena_I_Gorlin I suspect you will appreciate the high level of agency going on here. These guys have created a studio/community for builders pretty much from scratch, and documenting it for others to replicate.
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2 months
@ftnabeelah @shauseth Gonna use this to prompt discussion 😅
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Anna Lisa
29 days
@itsahousingtrap Where’s the dirt from the Ontario line going? This might be the best use for it!
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8 months
@Gena_I_Gorlin This is super interesting. Do you think “a fixed mindset / lack of belief in your own ability to do it” fits in either of the bottom two?
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4 months
@thematt_ross @tobi Foster truth-seeking discussions that enlighten spirits, connect souls and help us progress as a species. (Written at the top of my to do list 🙂)
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Anna Lisa
9 months
@Jason To share her work on raising the psychological ceiling for builders, @Gena_I_Gorlin would be perfect!
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Anna Lisa
3 months
In hindsight it sounds ridiculous, but I never once considered that I might get better at a technical sport in my 30s. Maybe it was a fixed mindset, or maybe just that I was focusing more on the fun + health benefits. “Learn something new” seems cliche but is so underrated.
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7 days
"Learn to know what's good enough, safe enough, and when it's time to take the leap to learn more." - @TechTakedra
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3 months
New faces, optimistic ideas, alongside a constantly changing river of ambition. So pumped about what’s to come.
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Anna Lisa
3 months
@mbateman Grade 12 English in summer school before the year started -dissected Hamlet, 1984, Oryx & Crake and Waiting for Godot over 3 weeks, 9-5 -fantastic teacher, incredibly passionate w/ high expectations -a lot of project-based inquiry & discussion -only half the class kept with it
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3 months
@fahdananta Not to be ironic, but Bloom’s Taxonomy is probably the most common framework teachers learn to building towards higher order thinking. While possible to go straight to “create mode”, building up to it is the scaffolding for it.
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Anna Lisa
2 years
So excited about this launch! Although I’m already sentimental about the old (and cute) Parlay 🥹
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Parlay Ideas
2 years
Today we launched a total refresh of Parlay to make inclusive and student-driven discussions better! Here’s a 🧵outlining our hottest new features: (Or just log in here to see it for yourself➡️)
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Anna Lisa
2 months
@_kelindi @melkuo k ya you’re right
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Anna Lisa
2 months
@athenakan_ @JoanneZPeng @heif what about these roles at McDonald’s/Amazon enticed you to join after founding your own company?
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Anna Lisa
2 years
@Kerry_edu At @parlayideas we’re helping teachers/schools run more student-led discussions that are inclusive and data-driven!
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Anna Lisa
4 months
@mbateman Yeah that’s a very weird long term strategy, especially if he considered the irony of it for like 5 seconds
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Anna Lisa
29 days
@robjama Just downloaded! Super easy (and fun?) to figure out!
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Anna Lisa
7 days
Thomas Laffont paraphrased that “dictatorships double down, democracies self correct."
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2 months
@tanishqxyz Little Italy 🤌🏼
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Anna Lisa
1 year
Day 1 was awesome but the energy in the room when @elonmusk called in was so intense. Everyone in awe at the guy making the sky his arena. @theallinpod @Jason @friedberg @DavidSacks @chamath
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“Throw away with prestige. Rip it out of your life.” - @bariweiss
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Anna Lisa
4 months
riffing on ideas by starting with “what do I know” is so underrated
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Anna Lisa
20 days
@fahdananta Ever tried prosciutto tho? 🤌🏼
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Anna Lisa
1 month
@agarcher @fahdananta I think “woke” has become a negative term since it’s now associated with “mind virus”, someone lacking independent, critical thought. Much more nuance there obviously but our snap judgements don’t often have enough data points for nuance. A good RoundTable topic tbh😏
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4 months
@melkuo I love this
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Anna Lisa
7 days
@chamath would often provide his view of the forest from the trees: "Relationships go up and down, businesses go up and down, it's called life." "We need to do a better job at listening to our village elders. They tell the truth that's defined by their own unique experiences."
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2 months
@EvanLyseng Ngl I used to shrug at delays but it’s way more existential now
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Anna Lisa
30 days
@anam_x0 Same! Except my concierge tries to trick me on purpose, it’s honestly hilarious. There’s always a new antic. I tell ppl he’s Rafiki from the Lion King.
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