Musings over the years…

• The Workish guide to retaining talent: Focus less on salary, more on meaning – interview with Sandy Marshall, 2021.

• “User Experience is our Legacy” – interview and article by Camila Beaumord, 2019

• Jade Bird Shows Toronto Why She’s One of the UK’s Top Acts, 2019

• Mike Doughty Celebrates Wallace Shawn, Patreon & 25 Years of Soul Coughing at the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern, 2019

• Mike Scott and The Waterboys Deliver Classics & Covers in Toronto, 2019

• Shoegaze Legends Ride Brings Their ‘This is Not a Safe Place’ Tour to Toronto, 2019

• We Were Promised Jetpacks Celebrate 10 Years of ‘These Four Walls’ in Brooklyn, 2019

• Judah and The Lion ‘Take it All Back’ at Canadian Music Week 2019

• Four Must-Listen Artists We Discovered At Shaky Knees 2019

• Shaky Knees 2019: Beck, Tame Impala, Gary Clark Jr. Bring Hot-Lanta to Its Knees

• White Denim, Broken Social Scene Headline FLOODFest 2019 [SXSW 2019]

• SXSW 2019 Round-Up: Deerhunter, Strand of Oaks, The Beths & More – Review at the Pop Break

• Ideasex Podcast Interview with Jeff & Ian from Abacus.Agency, 2018 – Ideasex, episode 11

• Creativity meets Technology. Now What?, #MarketingTO, Tech Toronto, 2018 –
  • Video record of presentation at the event – Why Creativity will not become a Commodity
  • Full presentation available here in google slides – Creativity vs Commodity

• Keeping up with Innovation in Toronto, Ensemble Toronto, 2018 – Full podcast at betakit

• Reflecting on some of the innovations in technology that have had the biggest impacts on consumers and marketers, as well as which innovations today could mean the most for the future, Dx3 Canada, 2018 – Dx3 Podcast

• An interview with the provocative Hilton Barbour, 2018 – https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/culture-digital-transformation-building-makers-dreamers-barbour

• CES 2018 – A Quick Update on CES 2018

• FreshBooks Video Interview – An interview with the FreshBooks Content team – Mastering the Art of Brainstorming, 2016

• Soundcloud podcast – A career retrospective in conversation with Creative Niche – Talent & Titans, episode 3, 2016

• Media in Canada interview – “The world doesn’t need more advertising,” – CES 2015 Overview

• DX3 Video Interview – Di Paola also says that Canadian entrepreneurs need not be ashamed of past failures. Instead, they should be worn as triumphant battle scars, signs of lessons learned out in the real world. This experience is what makes the next startup more enduring and successful. – The state of the Toronto start-up scene, DX3, 2013

• Media in Canada Guest Blog – “Humanity Trumps Technology” – SXSW 2013

• Media in Canada interview – “The rise of social TV, he said, offers brands new opportunities to engage in conversations with consumers around shows without the need to buy advertising, allowing them to gain insight on exactly what consumers are doing while they’re watching TV.” – The State of Social TV, 2013

• Media in Canada Guest Blog – “Insight, desire and utility need to co-exist and get equal attention from all marketers. Ideas need to be strategic, insightful and relevant. And they still require great storytelling and an emotional connection with people. Also, they need to be useful and usable.” SXSW, 2012