THE ROAD TO SUCCESS IS PAVED WITH SIGNED SHOES

photo by Keith Allison

Like, I know there is an important basketball game tonight.  LeBron and Curry will both be there.  And all that.  But let's talk about Nike dropping the ball (lol - pun - metaphor) and not keeping megastar Steph Curry in their line-up.  "Nike hit him with a pitch meeting ... hastily thrown together ... " with Curry's name spelled wrong and Kevin Durant's name still on presentation slides.   The consensus is Nike blew it and Under Armor won with Curry signed through 2024.    Anywhooo . . .      story     

Principle in the type:  "Still, accomplishment is unreliable.  'Succeeding,' whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it), and there's the very real danger that 'succeeding' will take you your whole life, while the big questions go untended."    George Saunders

MAKING THE GRADE

photo by Boris Johnson

In the old days being called a cow wasn't a great thing.  If I do the being-called-a-cow-math, it's probably still not great.  But what if even cow's have beauty pageants?   May 7th, "hundreds of cows and bulls walked the ramp in a north Indian town . . . in a bovine beauty pageant . . . "   The pageant was an effort to raise awareness about domestic breeds and animal health.  If your animal was paraded before the judges, it'd get points for good-looks, length of horns, or "milk-yielding capacities." story              ~And, um, humans can get points for a lot of things too.

Principle in the type:  "Increments.  It's what my father said to me every morning before I left for school.  He meant every test, every quiz, every paper adds up to the final grade.  In life, everything counts."   Milo Ventimiglia

YOU ARE THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR OWN SHIP

photo by Matt

Toni Tennille has written a new memoir.  Everything you ever wanted to know about Captain & Tennille included, ---if you even know what the words "Captain & Tennille" mean, you wee babies!!  (Oh my gosh, I'm getting old.)    "In my prime I was a damn good singer," remembers Tennille.   Yup, she did her part for sure.   Enjoy classic Seventies'ness below.




                                        
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Principle in the type:  "All we are given is possibilities -- to make ourselves one thing or another."         Jose Ortega y Gasset                           

                                                                                          Happiest of weekends, Peeps!

CEO'ING

photo by Jay Kim

Michael Kwan, 44, immigrated to the United States from China with his family over two decades ago.  He started work as a busboy, and now is CEO of a business group that "owns and operates 22 restaurants . . . 'In the States, there is so much opportunity.  I really believe if you work hard, you'll be successful,' said Kwan."    story               

Principle in the type:  "Nothing is impossible.  The word itself says, 'I'm Possible.' "     Audrey Hepburn