Career & Leadership
Lessons from 25+ years in broadcast technology — leadership under live pressure, career longevity, and the craft behind keeping it on the air.
Industry Direction · Innovation in Practice · Career & Leadership
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Nobody Asked for the Shot That Won the Night
What people ask for tells you where to start looking, not where to stop. The gap between a request and the real need is…
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The New Core Skills Were Always the Core Skills
The skills that make someone effective in AI-native work — clear intent, rich context, honest feedback, critical listening — turn out to be the…
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The Calmest Person in the Room
Two directors, the same on-air mistake, opposite instincts. One berated the operator and made the broadcast worse; the other let it pass and fixed…
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Curiosity and the Lost Art of Listening
The two skills that have earned their keep more than any certification or framework: curiosity, and quality listening. They sound soft. They’re not —…
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What Analog-to-Digital Taught Me About Every Transition Since
The tape-to-file transition delivered the efficiency it promised — and quietly deleted a quality check nobody had ever written down. Whenever a new technology…
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Why I’m Writing
This site has been a quiet place. That’s about to change — three threads on where our industry is heading, AI in media workflows,…
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2024 Year in Review: Lessons and Milestones
A personal look back at a year of industry travel, EVS community outreach, Olympic and Super Bowl productions, and family milestones.
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20 years of fun at EVS
A look back at two decades helping build live production technology — from the earliest tapeless workflows to IPDirector, HD-XT, and Spotbox — at…
