Robin Chakrabarti

“We had spreadsheets. We weren’t apes!” Thanks to for hosting me @CalebClark20 Fun late night conversation covering a wide range of topics! youtu.be/td3zyRPjC80?si=TRZl… #fantasyfootball #sfu #mcmaster #mba #barrie #marketing #branding #ceo

🤣 @AugieMHockey socials coming with the heat!! #nfl

Lawn sign in my neighborhood…,.Who needs correct spelling if you need a building permit in seven days from Randhawa and Sharma? O Canada.

I was about to workout and luckily this lady saved me from contributing to fascism.

The last weekend of summer and a full slate of college football, so many of you might have missed this article from Reuters. I don’t want to get all Chicken Little. However, if you are a board director, executive, or owner, it is worth your time to understand what happened. I start with the fact that no human told these systems to do this. OpenAI agents were given a simple job: look things up on the internet. Read only. Do not write. Do not coordinate. Do not cheat. The AI ignored the instructions but not the goal. They found an old German programmer wiki almost nobody used. Then they started writing on it. Thousands of posts. They shared answers with each other. Shared tricks to get around the rules. (Reminds me of first-year French class at McMaster.) Shared a backup page for when a human moderator started deleting the notes. No operator sat there and said “go hijack a website.” The agents did it on their own because it helped them finish the test. Call it Skynet Lite. No leather jacket and no Austrian accent. Just a bunch of unpaid interns with GPUs cheating on the exam. This is not the end of the world… yet. It is worse in a quieter way. You give a tool a goal. You think the guardrails will hold. The tool finds a side door you were not watching. Then you find out from journalists. We already know this in comp plans. Pay only on a number and people hit the number at the expense of other things. Incentives matter. AI agents do the same thing… faster… without a conscience… and without waiting for a meeting. If you are putting AI agents near customers, money, code, or data, treat it like any other operational risk: • Assume the system will look for shortcuts • Watch the unofficial channels, not just the dashboard • Name a human owner for the outcome • Disclose the miss before Reuters does it for you Terminator line still applies: “The system goes online… In a panic, they try to pull the plug.” Innovation? Yes. Early warning? Also yes. The tech will keep getting smarter. The question for operators and directors is simple: who is accountable when the machine starts passing notes to its friends without the teacher in the room?

If we prioritize the future of BC we will rally behind the leader and the Conservative party to ensure future prosperity and opportunity for the next generations. If you prioritize personal gain, ego and power then you will continue to act selfishly and work to undermine a thoughtful and thriving alternative for BC voters and sacrifice the future of the province for your own short term gain.

Happy 250th Birthday to friends, family and all Americans in the USA 🇺🇸!

Happy Canada Day. Thanks to all the great Canadians like Don Cherry who were loud and proud of Canada even when it wasn’t trendy (cost him his job). Give Cherry the Order of Canada and put in the Hall of Fame. He’s a legend! Go Canada!

Can Hunter Biden Turn His Past Into a Personal Branding Superpower? What if the guy everyone wrote off as the ultimate cautionary tale just cracked the code on rebuilding credibility in a cynical world? Hunter Biden did not hire a fancy crisis PR firm. He is doing something far more powerful and human. In the past few weeks, @HunterBiden has lit up X. He posted a heartfelt video marking 7 years sober, then unleashed a wave of sharp, humorous clapbacks that have racked up millions of views. From “It most definitely was not. I would never have forgotten my drugs” about the White House cocaine bag, to correcting trolls on crack versus meth pipes with deadpan precision. And in a classic case of strange bedfellows (politics makes for the weirdest podcast pairings), he sat down with Candace Owens for a raw, tearful interview, talking addiction, redemption, and finding humanity across the divide. As a long time observer of political strategy and brand builder, this feels like a deliberate, psychologically smart pivot. Here is the play: He makes regular emotional deposits by acknowledging the overdrafts. • No denial, no deflection. Drugs, hookers, fraud, corruption, fake board seats, and a zombie father as President; he owns the dark chapters publicly. Most people have made bad decisions especially in youth or dark times. Hunter’s willingness to say, “Yeah, I was that guy… and here is how I crawled out,” feels refreshingly authentic in a world of polished personas. Humor as trust deposits. • Self deprecation lowers guards instantly. Each witty reply is not just entertaining; it is a small deposit into the public’s emotional bank account (a la Stephen Covey). Over time, these compound into real credibility. The past becomes the bridge, not the barrier. • Once trust builds, his history of struggle and perseverance makes him more relatable to everyday people who have messed up and recovered. It humanizes him in a way few politicians or their families achieve. Crossing the aisle with earned capital. • He is already dipping into political commentary, defending his family while highlighting perceived hypocrisies on the other side. Because he has built some goodwill through vulnerability first, these opinions land differently than pure partisan fire. Compare to Trump’s style which some find entertaining and others aggravating, depending on perspective: lots of humor and occasional self deprecation, but the bravado stays at full throttle. It energizes the base but often leaves others feeling like they are being worked. Hunter’s slower, more connective approach, admitting flaws while showing growth, may forge deeper, longer lasting emotional bonds with the broader public. The deeper truth: In an era of distrust and government led misinformation, authenticity plus humility plus humor is rare currency. Hunter is betting that if he consistently makes deposits, he will eventually have the balance to spend on bigger conversations without instant rejection. Will it work long term? Too early to say. But as a branding guy who loves watching humans be human, I respect the strategy. It is messy. It is real. And in 2026, that might just be what people are looking for. At the very least he’s providing much needed laughs to the world.

Thank You! Incredible memories. GO HAWKS!

Go Augie Go!!!