Today, I suddenly realized that I didn’t become a pilot, a policeman, or a pro hockey player like I thought when I was a kid. Didn’t become a rich businessman like I thought when I was in business school. Didn’t even become a media consultant like I was told to say to clients when I switched careers for the first time.
I’m a writer. This is what I do.
Even on a Sunday.
It’s in the air. Everybody’s talking about the need for change. Few of us make a move. Snoopy is an inspiration.
Back to the topic of covers. Magazine covers.
ESPN The Magazine celebrates its 10 years in the business, and with good reason. The Mag is a success story in a field where we don’t hear them that often.
Moderated a roundtable discussion today, the topic being work atmosphere at a Swedish company. By the end of it, I asked the participants to give some pointers to the readers (in the same company across the world) on how one person can make the atmosphere better for everybody.
“Just be happy and stay positive,” said the first.
“Yeah, I say the same,” said the rest.
So easy. To forget.
The fans were cheering loudly, they were singing and chanting, and clapping, and waving their flags. For about ten minutes, they chanted something that sounded like this:
“YOAOAOYEACAMENASARKEYYAAVIYEACAMENA!”
A young man next to me was quietly chanting along, clapping his hands with the rest of them. I finally asked him, “What are they chanting, exactly?”
“I don’t know,” he said.
Don’t forget:
The Tonight show with Leino (at iihf.com), and my nhl.com column here, or below.
Today, I got an offer I think I’m not supposed to refuse. That’s kind of scary.
Scary fun.
The Toronto Star ran an interesting piece.
Now a group of influential NHL players that includes New Jersey’s Martin Brodeur, Dallas’s Marty Turco, Detroit’s Dominik Hasek and Edmonton’s Dwayne Roloson want the league’s – and inevitably the Leafs’ – uniforms altered again. [S]everal NHL goalies have asked the league and its players union to consider starting a so-called Goaltender’s Club. Revenue-generating initiatives for the club could include placing a corporate logo on the jerseys of the league’s 60-odd goalies.
That’s right. A corporate logo on the jerseys.
The other day, I interviewed a Swedish idea guy about innovation. He was all energy, all passion, all ideas. And a lot of quotes by famous people.
This is one he threw at me:
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
“Michelangelo said it,” he added.
Michelangelo would have made a great coach.
Tonight, my wife and I had dinner at a sweet Italian restaurant in Uppsala, after an energetic show by Jonas Gardell, a Swedish comedian (and author and entertainer).
In the table next to us, there was a group of young girls getting ready for Friday night, giggling and chatting as only young girls can. All of a sudden, I saw a man lean against the window, trying to talk to the girls.