The Best Made Customer: Alex Swann, Toronto Canada Best Made has the best customers on the planet and to tell their stories we will be publishing their answers to “The Ten Best Made Questions”. We kick it off with handsome Alex Swann, seen above taking Handsome Dan to his five o’clock shadow.  1) what’s the weather like where you are? Perfect. Hot, not too humid, and economic downturns are smog-free. 2) what’s your most valuable piece of advice today? Invoice clients regularly.  3) what’s your sign? Yield. 4) if you could be outside right now, working, what would you be doing? Even more typing on the laptop.  5) what is the strangest thing you’ve ever eaten? Head cheese…last night…I was told after the fact. Not sure I would have eaten it otherwise. But it was delicious (albeit fatty) and served with a nice Barolo. Otherwise I do try to order the oddest, or most seasonal or most local thing on menu, particularly when travelling.  6) what is the best thing your father ever taught you? Sense of humour and the word “schadenfreude” 7) what is the best thing your mother ever taught you? Discerning taste and how to make Yorkshire puddings.  8) what skill, trade, craft, or hobby would you like to learn most and why? Music - guitar, maybe the drums. I’d like to rock out some day - or play a great country song.  9) what problem would you like solved? Climate change. 10) what’s your favourite answer to a question? ‘Maybe’ Particularly helpful when someone asks if I’ve “finished that project yet?” ALEX SWANN was born in Montreal some time before the 1976 Olympics, but after the World’s Fair of 1967. At the age of 8 he was placed on a bus near a mall and sent to summer camp. It was there he learned from the councilors to wield an axe and from the campers a full inventory of cuss words. After his summer sojourns at camp came to an end, and adulthood began, his life focused more on matters urban.  He studied history at university, relearned French – the language of the coureurs de bois – and is now a consultant in communications and public opinion research. Today he lives in Toronto, Canada, where he’s a principal at the Gandalf Group. On weekends he can be found chopping far more Maple than is ever needed for the (diminishing) winters of southern Ontario at the family acreage in the hamlet of Melville.
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The Best Made Customer: Alex Swann, Toronto Canada

Best Made has the best customers on the planet and to tell their stories we will be publishing their answers to “The Ten Best Made Questions”. We kick it off with handsome Alex Swann, seen above taking Handsome Dan to his five o’clock shadow. 

1) what’s the weather like where you are?

Perfect. Hot, not too humid, and economic downturns are smog-free.

2) what’s your most valuable piece of advice today?

Invoice clients regularly. 

3) what’s your sign?

Yield.

4) if you could be outside right now, working, what would you be doing?

Even more typing on the laptop. 

5) what is the strangest thing you’ve ever eaten?

Head cheese…last night…I was told after the fact. Not sure I would have eaten it otherwise. But it was delicious (albeit fatty) and served with a nice Barolo. Otherwise I do try to order the oddest, or most seasonal or most local thing on menu, particularly when travelling. 

6) what is the best thing your father ever taught you?

Sense of humour and the word “schadenfreude”

7) what is the best thing your mother ever taught you?

Discerning taste and how to make Yorkshire puddings. 

8) what skill, trade, craft, or hobby would you like to learn most and why?

Music - guitar, maybe the drums. I’d like to rock out some day - or play a great country song. 

9) what problem would you like solved?

Climate change.

10) what’s your favourite answer to a question?

‘Maybe’ Particularly helpful when someone asks if I’ve “finished that project yet?”

ALEX SWANN was born in Montreal some time before the 1976 Olympics, but after the World’s Fair of 1967. At the age of 8 he was placed on a bus near a mall and sent to summer camp. It was there he learned from the councilors to wield an axe and from the campers a full inventory of cuss words. After his summer sojourns at camp came to an end, and adulthood began, his life focused more on matters urban.  He studied history at university, relearned French – the language of the coureurs de bois – and is now a consultant in communications and public opinion research. Today he lives in Toronto, Canada, where he’s a principal at the Gandalf Group. On weekends he can be found chopping far more Maple than is ever needed for the (diminishing) winters of southern Ontario at the family acreage in the hamlet of Melville.

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