Are you a planner or an improvisor? Or both? There are merits to both depending on what you want out of your project. ...
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Leap, Learn, Grow: Surviving The First Few Months In A New Job
The first few months in a new job can be overwhelming. These are some things I’ve learned in a short time with my new team. ...
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Start With The Hands
It’s been a while since I wrote about rowing, but I felt compelled to talk about mastering the use of our hands. They are the window the rowing’s soul. ...
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What Is Fun?
Growing pains are not often associated with having fun. But redefining “fun” as seeking challenges, making progress, and not settling for comfort can help us feel more joy in our daily work. ...
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Chicken In Your Teeth
Impressions are important. Especially when we want people to like us. Especially when those people have a hand in our future success. Especially when we are working hard to make sure that they are successful in the here and now. Getting caught up in theatrics will only get you so far. People don’t have...
Continue readingHere We Go
If I had jumped in a boat and immediately started winning races I probably never would have accomplished much in the sport of rowing. I started late. I was always behind. I wasn’t fit. But it made me gritty, angry, and determined. I remember the dismissive things people said about me. I catalogued them...
Continue readingThoughts On Pace
Shortcuts Innovate or die Yes, the journey, but Keep up the pace Deliver Bogged down by manual labor Columns and rows, static Why bring something to life If you can create life elsewhere Wish lists Dreams The urgent and necessary course of animation Create something magical Forward, forward, forward...
Continue readingMissing the Point
Not everyone gets you. Not everyone likes what you have to say. People miss the point. And then they tell you where you’ve gone wrong. Typically, they do so unsolicited and condescendingly. It’s part of life. How you deal with the bs is what makes you who you are. It would be easy to...
Continue readingDriving Lessons
I lived in Boston for three years. When I first moved to the city I lived in Somerville, which is on the Cambridge side of the river. That river being the Charles. I was terrified to drive there. I had lived in the greater DC area on and off for almost eight years and...
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Do You Miss It
People ask me if I miss coaching. When I stopped rowing in 2012 people asked me the same question. Do you miss it? The answer is no. And it sounds weird and harsh to say that but it’s not because I’m callous and don’t care. If I missed coaching or rowing I would still...
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