One of the reasons you are on my “favorite people” list, although we did not work together very long, is that the day after John Lennon was shot you and I were the only ones at DEC wearing all black. (Yes, you may do that anyway but it seemed like a good statement at the time.)

It’s a sign of how long I’ve lived in MA that BPL means Boston Public Library.

I’ve been on the fringes of the Boston area M&A community for many years and am tempted to go to the Boston Chapter of the ACM September 19 Dealmaker breakfast where Jeff Taylor will speak on “The Social Web Beyond the Big 3: MySpace, Facebook & YouTube” He was monster.com founder/CEO and is now doing Eons (Facebook for boomers, presumably with age-appropriate advertising). You correctly identify one of the problems… this is all very interesting, time consuming, and hard to organize and/or manage.

Which brings me to my recent reading list. As time goes by I enjoy reading pop economics more and have always enjoyed idea rich pop business books. Recommend: David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous; Paul Ormerod’s Why Most Things Fail; Tim Harford’s The Undercover Economist; Steven Levitt’s Freakonomics; and the latest from Clayton Christensen: Seeing What’s Next. Also trying to finish WICKED.

Keep the faith!

Some Stanford business school students and alums recently interviewed Andy Grove. I thought this would be of particular interest to you.

http://iinnovate.blogspot.com/2007/03/andy-grove-former-ceo-and-chairman-of.html

Let us know what you think, and send us an e-mail if you have any thoughts, reflections, and pieces of advice about the interview or our podcast in general.

Min, on behalf of the iinnovate team.

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