Thoughtful conversations with the people of Maine

If you prepare yourself, you know, an opportunity even just comes if you're prepared for it.

I think when I hire people, I look for folks that are, I'm really interested in what they value in life, and one of my favorite questions to ask people is what's their favorite job and why they loved it so much. I think it helps give me an insight into who they are, and I think hiring people for culture first and then teaching people skills, that translates into the experience.

The whole act of synthesizing information is such a mysterious and wonderful one. Visually, you know, I spent a year traveling in Europe looking at the Great Art of Europe when I was in my early twenties and drawing a lot and knowing that all that information was somehow going to come back out, and it did.