Celtics

Boston's weather is like little baby's face, one moment with rain and wind, another moment has 80+ degree. That was what we had on Tuesday. Suddenly I realized that I have not prepared summerish clothes here :( But outside blooming cherry trees totally let you forget that short moment of concerning 'what to wear'. I took time walking by Charles river, all what I could say is 'WOW', never thought this part of Cambridge/Boston beauty, which is totally stunning. A lot of boats by the river. One of my classmates asked me to take Sailing class since we all can get a sailing card here and MIT has a great collection, why not.

This afternoon I had the most disagreed talk from one of my class. The prof. has strong opinions about believing to bring manufactor back to Europe and U.S., and think regulation is the fundamental reason to drive companies' innovation. I challenged with facts of U.S. skip building plants domestically but another country. The current high tax has not helped U.S. economic development. NYTimes Friedman's column has one article about his interview with Intel CEO last month. Though we all have our own opinions, the great part of this talk, or should say the great part of MIT is to tolerate everyone's opinion and everyone will listen instead of avoiding.

Then evening my CEO perspectives class has Celtics' CEO to speak. Have to admit, even for me, a totally non-sports person, totally got fire up by his words, even want to see Celtics' place. Sports management is quite foreign to me, he really articulate well about how he transitioned himself from VC to own a basketball team, all about passion, about taking risks, trusting your guts feeling, on top of that, his wife really gave him huge support, despite they could potential lost all the deposit for purchasing the team, while other investors did not want to join. He credited to the people, let yourself surround with best people, aim high, as high as possible(do not set bar for life, but in short timer), and just hanging in there and be little longer, you will see. He started to tell us that he is not the best CEO but he learns and work hard, do not try to be one he is not.

This week I am reading book, very good one, comparing with first half-term user-center, user-driven innovation, this is quite different perspectives.