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Aunty Janet tries to put a brave face on the fact she's been stuck next to Uncle John most of the night - it's a tough job but someone has to do it.
After being socked in in clouds all day Mount Stuart finally started peaking out when the cloud bank began breaking up in the afternoon.
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"This house, built in 1839 by Archdeacon George Okill Stuart, was known as "Okill's Folly." When the Province of Canada's first parliament met in the nearby hospital, the members were housed in Summerhill. Leased for government offices in 1842-44, it was later occupied by a school. In 1853, it was purchased by Queens College and served for several years as the university's only building. During most of its history, it has been used as the principal's residence." - info from Ontario Heritage Trust.
"Queen's University at Kingston, commonly known as Queen's University or simply Queen's, is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Queen's holds more than 1,400 hectares (3,500 acres) of land throughout Ontario and owns Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England. Queen's is organized into eight faculties and schools.
The Church of Scotland established Queen's College in October 1841 via a royal charter from Queen Victoria. The first classes, intended to prepare students for the ministry, were held 7 March 1842, with 15 students and two professors. In 1869, Queen's was the first Canadian university west of the Maritime provinces to admit women. In 1883, a women's college for medical education affiliated with Queen's University was established after male staff and students reacted with hostility to the admission of women to the university's medical classes. In 1912, Queen's ended its affiliation with the Presbyterian Church, and adopted its present name. During the mid-20th century, the university established several faculties and schools, and expanded its campus with the construction of new facilities.
Queen's is a co-educational university with more than 33,842 students and over 131,000 alumni living worldwide. Notable alumni include government officials, academics, business leaders and 57 Rhodes Scholars. As of 2022, five Nobel Laureates and one Turing Award winner have been affiliated with the university.
Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the northeastern end of Lake Ontario. It is at the beginning of the St. Lawrence River and at the mouth of the Cataraqui River, the south end of the Rideau Canal. Kingston is midway between Toronto, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec, and is also near the Thousand Islands, a tourist region to the east, and the Prince Edward County tourist region to the west. Kingston is nicknamed the "Limestone City" because it has many heritage buildings constructed using local limestone.
Growing European exploration in the 17th century and the desire for the Europeans to establish a presence close to local Native occupants to control trade led to the founding of a French trading post and military fort at a site known as "Cataraqui" (generally pronounced /kætəˈrɒkweɪ/ ka-tə-ROK-way) in 1673. The outpost, called Fort Cataraqui, and later Fort Frontenac, became a focus for settlement. After the Conquest of New France (1759–1763), the site of Kingston was relinquished to the British. Cataraqui was renamed Kingston after the British took possession of the fort, and Loyalists began settling the region in the 1780s.
Kingston was named the first capital of the United Province of Canada on February 10, 1841. While its time as a capital city was short and ended in 1844, the community has remained an important military installation. The city is a regional centre of education and health care, being home to two major universities, a large vocational college, and three major hospitals.
Kingston was the county seat of Frontenac County until 1998. Kingston is now a separate municipality from the County of Frontenac. Kingston is the largest municipality in southeastern Ontario and Ontario's 10th largest metropolitan area. John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada lived in Kingston." - info from Wikipedia.
Late June to early July, 2024 I did my 4th major cycling tour. I cycled from Ottawa to London, Ontario on a convoluted route that passed by Niagara Falls. during this journey I cycled 1,876.26 km and took 21,413 photos. As with my other tours a major focus was old architecture.
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I first met Toby Stuart fifteen years ago, and even back then, it was clear he had a different kind of mind—one that instinctively searched for the hidden architecture beneath institutions, ideas, and human behavior. Now a professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Toby has built a career studying the social and organizational networks that quietly shape how innovation happens.
His research has helped redefine how we think about entrepreneurship. Early in his career, he showed that in industries like biotechnology, the success of a startup often hinges less on its core technology than on the social capital of the people involved—who they know, where they’ve worked, and how they’re perceived by others. That insight—that reputation and network connections are as fundamental to a venture’s prospects as its product—has become foundational in the study of entrepreneurship and innovation.
Over the years, Toby’s work has expanded into adjacent domains: strategic alliances, venture capital, academic careers, and the structural forces that govern who gets funded, who gets mentored, and who gets left out. He’s particularly interested in how networks distribute not just opportunity but also exclusion—how they can reinforce inequality even as they create value. At Berkeley, and previously at Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Chicago, Toby has trained generations of students to look beyond the surface of business to the deeper, often invisible dynamics that drive outcomes.
When we met for this portrait session on April 7, 2025, it felt more like a long-overdue catch-up than a formal shoot. We made the photos in my library in Noe Valley—surrounded by books, quiet light, and a few old cameras. He arrived relaxed but sharp, with the same curious glint I remembered from when we first met. We talked about the resilience of cities, the friction in collaboration, and the importance of asking better questions.
Toby’s style is deeply analytical, but never abstract for abstraction’s sake. He has a way of grounding big ideas in concrete realities. He’s not selling grand theories; he’s building a toolkit—ways of thinking that his students and collaborators can carry with them into the complex, messy systems they’ll inhabit.
He’s also a generous listener. In a world often obsessed with speed, Toby remains tuned to nuance and context. He has no need to be the loudest voice in the room. Instead, he creates space—space for inquiry, for conversation, for real thinking.
His impact extends well beyond academia. He’s worked closely with startup founders, investors, and policymakers, helping them see the levers and feedback loops they might otherwise miss. He understands that innovation isn’t just about the next big idea—it’s about the social scaffolding that helps that idea survive, grow, and spread.
Fifteen years on, I still find conversations with Toby leave me thinking differently. More aware of the systems at play. More attentive to the stories we tell about success, and the ones we overlook. There’s clarity in his vision, but also humility—a sense that the world is complex, and our job is not to control it, but to understand it a little better each time we look.
Stuart Maudlin, arthur of “Regular Guys and Great Fools: How a group of entrepreneurs let the shampoo business slip through their fingers and almost down the drain.”