Practical matters

Practical matters

I manage to read one chapter of the "Mastering the dynamics of Innovation", while waiting in the Social Security office. This time they accepted our (= I and Vineet) application and will send us either the card or a letter telling that we unworthy aliens will never get the card. The social security office is a sad place, full of poor, sick, and down trodden people.

We also took the flu vaccination, which is available for all MIT-students in the MIT-medical. We cannot afford getting flu this spring. They also told us that one of the most important ways to prevent flu is to sleep 8 hours every night. So much for the heroic cult of not sleeping etc. It is plain stupid cult.

Another nice course started today. Eric von Hippel lectures about "Innovation in the marketplace": how the so called lead user are often the real inventors of new product, and how companies may take advantage of this insight. Not that many do. The course is nice, its workload light, and assignment small enough to do after class. Which I did.

In the evening, I and others in our class went to the graduate student happening in the Museum@MIT. Nice museum, excellent collection of robot, holograms, and photographs. A must place for anyone interested in technology. Free drinks, no food.

We continues to Dave's and Christian's mansion in Cambridge: Uday, Kumar, Matt, Matt, Sam. Nice evening, looking at some business possibilities, but not committing to anything. In MIT, one must consider businesses. Furthermore, rather many of us are getting unwilling to work in any large corporation. Independence and autonomy rule!

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