One Shining Moment, Miracles and Michael Jordan
Spend any amount of time in a meeting when I’m discussing technical leadership and distinguishing talent and you’ll hear the name Michael Jordan dropped more than 3-point shots in a Final Four game. I frequently ask people to fill in the blank in “I’m the Michael Jordan of (blank).” The goal is to capture a [...]
Life Resembles Art (Devlin)
I had one of those “plate o shrimp” weeks. It started fairly simply as I was typing up directions for our youth hockey team’s annual pilgrimage to Lake Placid, New York. The landmark I give for our arrival in Lake Placid is Art Devlin’s Olympic Motor Inn, situated at the intersection of NY State 73 [...]
Removal of Sharp Objects
All sharp objects, boxes of Girl Scout Cookies, blunt instruments, and other possible inflictors of pain and suffering have been removed from my immediate vicinity. Watching the Devils is painful. Not as painful as jamming a pencil into the roof of my mouth, G. Gordon Liddy style, but painful. It doesn’t help that Elias and [...]
Princeton Hockey Hat Trick
How about this for a hat trick: three Tiger tales in the March 13 issue of The Hockey News? Former Princeton captain, Washington capitals leader, one-time Wall Street Journal human interest subject and current Dallas Stars center Jeff Halpern gets the nod (and picture) as pivot on the checking line, while on the opposite side [...]
Writing versus Producing
As expressed here before, I’m an avid Jodi Picoult . Part of it has to do with her Princeton background (we were undergrads at the same time), part of it is a mutual author friend, part of it is that she turns a phrase like a master sculptor putting a gnarled piece of wood on [...]
Turning Point
Not the prissy ballet movie. “Turning point” as in I can see into spring hockey from here. The Star-Ledger today proclaims that the Devils win also thrusts them into crisis, with Lukowich suffering from a possible concussion, White nursing a hand injury suffered during pre-game and Gionta still limping around with a groin pull. Last [...]
Architecture For Humanity
One of the downsides to being in the field organization is that you don’t always get to watch a project go from idea to instantiation. In July, a group of us were fortunate enough to meet with Cameron Sinclair, the founder of Architecture For Humanity, Wired Magazine Rave Award recipient, and at that time, freshly [...]