Meeting Zoe Keating
On telling the story you want and need to tell When I started at Ipsos I was given a creative brief. “Ipsos is thought of as a traditional, somewhat boring...
Meeting Chuck Klosterman
On finding inspiration and making things My dad’s advice to… really to anyone, was to read. More importantly, he said, don’t just read your favorite kinds of...
Meeting Buddy Morris
On the basics I never thought I would be the parent of an athlete, let alone a coach. Of a travel team, no less. Likewise I never thought one of my all-time...
Career day
In the back of my head, this newsletter could be a lot of things: A book. A podcast. A TED talk. This week I delivered part of it to an audience for the...
Meeting the Dead Milkmen
When I think about Almost Matt Almost Famous I often think about the role of the young journalist’s mom in his career and story arc. She dropped him off at...
Meeting Carl Bernstein
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are the two Washington Post reporters credited with leading the investigation into the break-in at the Watergate Hotel, which...
Meeting the Sci-fi writers: Neal, William and more
Books are a gift. But author readings are an absolute treasure. Not only do the authors give you the book, but they often come to your town to read it with...
Meeting Mayor Emanuel(s)
On the power of creating and community and making “good nights…” In the history of Twitter, two things stand out to me as the best uses of the platform....
Meeting the Mayors
On lessons learned by the those leading the charge Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution in his book “Metropolitan Revolution,” talks about Mayors as...
Meeting Richard Florida
On giving interesting people interesting challenges This is the story of, among other things, how What the Future came to be. I’m telling you this on the day...
Meeting My Makers
On the things we acquire and the connections we make. As you’ve been reading, I like meeting the people behind the music, or writing or other kinds of...
Wilco and Lounge Ax
On home...
Meeting David Bowie
On grace, and being a hero just for one day, but also every day
Meeting Senator Elissa Slotkin
On power, and getting things done, and having a plan
Meeting Lin Bremer
On best friends, and powering through the morning...
Meeting Nick Kelly and the Fat Lady Sings
On creativity and the joys of fandom
Meeting Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen and many more
On the importance of contacts and contracts
Meeting Blind Melon's Shannon Hoon
On stopping things before they start
Meeting Hubert Sumlin, David Johansen and the basically the blues themselves
On the contrast of legends...
Meeting Ryder Carroll, creator of the Bullet Journal
On habits and routines...
Meeting Wesley Willis
On knowing the worth of your work
Meeting Frank Orrall (and all the rest of the Poi Dogs)
On family, and home, and standing exactly where you're supposed to be
Meeting Billy Corgan
On being friends vs. friendly and understanding relationships
Meeting Everclear's Art Alexakis
On being friendly but not being friends
Meeting Steve Yahn
On building, not burning bridges
Meeting Mitch Albom
On finding the path to your path...
Meeting Dr. Welch
On turning disappointment into fuel
Meeting Doc Rosenquist
On passion and its applications, and nurturing strays...
Meeting Robin Williams
I grew up, of course, watching Mork and Mindy, which oddly was a spin off of Happy Days. I assume the episode where an alien visits the Cunningham’s was...
Meeting Count Scary
On the heroes who live next door
Meeting Boy George
On the complication of identity and time.
Meeting Mr. T.
On having plans and loving it when they come together.
Meeting Rick Kogan
On historians and history and seizing the present...
Meeting Rick Steves
How someone else's hero can become one of yours, too
Meeting DJ John Richards
On the power of music and connection, of community and radio.
Meeting Ernie Harwell
On baseball and solid stories, well-told.
Sterling Morrison
On going where the story is, and never being surprised by who's there to tell it
Moe Tucker
From the mini-series, Meeting the Velvet Underground: Lou Reed, John Cale, Moe Tucker, and Sterling Morrison I was lucky to be at the height of my Velvet...
John Cale
A story of talent and practice
Keanu Reeves
Stretching the definition of both "meeting" and "hero" but sometimes that's better
Meeting Lou Reed
Meeting the man who inspired it all, and by "it all" I mean pretty much everything I've done since
Meeting My Heroes, the introduction
How I came to meet them and what I learned from each