Book Club

  1. Supermodels

    My last trip to Beaverton was short. Two days of packed meetings and seeing faces I hadn’t seen in years. But I intentionally stopped to catch up w...
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  2. Be Water

    Funny to think that no one was interested in the relaunch of the Huarache in 2010, so we Trojan Horsed a FREE pack. In a big corporation you still ...
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  3. Midlife Oasis

    I get bored easily. I always have. At one point in my early days as a footwear designer I wondered what else I was missing. I would ask veteran...
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  4. Three. Possible Five. Portfolio Rules.

    For years I crafted and recrafted my portfolio based on trial/error, advice from experts/peers and whatever I thought looked cool in the real worl...
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  5. Thirty Seven

    In 2019 I attended a conference in Washington DC for African Americans in the Footwear industry. The sea of black talent in one a single room wa...
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  6. Getting in the Game

    Without question there will be 6,453 versions of everything that happened at Nike at any given point. 72% of these stories are true. It’s all pe...
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