Please turn JavaScript on
Brandon Donnelly icon

Brandon Donnelly

Want to stay in touch with the latest updates from Brandon Donnelly? That's easy! Just subscribe clicking the Follow button below, choose topics or keywords for filtering if you want to, and we send the news to your inbox, to your phone via push notifications or we put them on your personal page here on follow.it.

Reading your RSS feed has never been easier!

Website title: Error

Is this your feed? Claim it!

Publisher:  Unclaimed!
Message frequency:  0.92 / day

Message History

Forty years ago, The Economist introduced its now-famous Big Mac Index. It was based on the simple idea that a Big Mac is a damn near perfect universal commodity, and so if you methodically compare its price across countries, it should give you an approximation of the purchasing power parity across a basket of currencies.

For example, a Big Mac currently costs ...


Read full story

When I first started writing this blog in 2013, I started on Tumblr. Then about 6 years ago, I decided that Tumblr wasn’t the right platform for a written blog like mine, and so I moved to WordPress (specifically WordPress.com — not a self-hosted s...


Read full story

People used to get excited about data centre construction, and communities used to compete for them, frequently with incentives. They represented job creation and an investment in the new economy. But things feel quite different today.

According to


Read full story

One Delisle is really starting to make a mark on the Toronto skyline. So on a semi-regular basis, people now send me photos of the building or mention me on the socials. I love when people do that.


Read full story

There is a school of thought that out-of-office messages are only for the unserious. If you're a top-performing executive, owner, or whatever, you need to be available and reachable at all times, and so an OOO message sends completely the wrong signal. It says that you're just not that committed to what you do. Yeah, I always use an OOO message when I'm away.

While I a...


Read full story