Graeme Moffat

Here’s a great post from the Nike magazine about our team, and how we had the great fortune (alongside many other teammates!) of working to create the world’s first athletic shoe designed from the sensory system out. Link here.

Vass Bednar, Brett House, Sunil Johal, Kaylie Tiessen and I had some thoughts on Canada’s struggles with economic growth and the importance of getting policy in place to change the country’s course.

It’s not that Canadian companies are too small or too big: it’s that too many of the country’s big companies are old, generally low-tech, and don’t innovate to compete. More here, in our article at The Hub.

A panel on Canada’s best current affairs TV show, The Agenda.

A conversation I had with Raju Mudhar of the Toronto Star’s This Matters podcast on the history and future of brain-computer interfaces.

Last weekend I had the good fortune to participate in a panel at Neuromatch Academy on career development for neuroscience students. If you’re a student who’s only ever experienced academia – and especially if your advisors have only ever seen academia – it can be hard to break out of academo-normative thinking and conceptualize the wider world of mainstream careers. (This problem is so weird that some academics refer to the path that 80-90% of graduate degree holders choose as “alternative careers” or ‘alt-ac’.)

Continue reading “How to think about private sector careers if you’re a neuroscience student (or postdoc)”

Prof. Fairclough and I got into a great discussion about practical BCIs on the sidelines of the Neuroadaptive Technology Conference in Liverpool in the summer of 2019. Here’s the podcast.

Last week, my friend Sean Speer and I took on Linda McQuaig and Armine Yalnizyan in a television debate, produced by Wodek Szemberg and moderated by Steve Paikin, for The Agenda on TVO. It was fun. If you grew up in Ontario in the 70s, 80s, or 90s, you started out watching The Polka-Dot Door, then one day you’re watching The Agenda and it occurs to you that you’re an adult. Life goes Polkaroo-to-Paikin. All that is to say: I was happy to be on TVO.

Continue reading “Should we feel sorry for Canadian billionaires?”

I had some comments on non-compete clauses in Christine Dobby’s excellent Globe & Mail article, Sign here: Why the increasing use of non-compete clauses is bad for employees, and the economy.