Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA
Song of the day: Elbow, "Any Day Now"

So, add another notch in my MBA travel log. After a brutal 4 days spent essentially chained to my desk to put my social capital paper to bed, I'm now here in Philadelphia chasing an opportunity it appears I was made for. First, the paper.

"Social Capital in Virtual Communities" will soon be posted to my ideas blog, but in the meantime, a good post mortem would have to include a mention of the sheer hubris that formed the basis of much of the problems I had with this thing. I don't know why, but I had just too many things to write about, and no "story" around which I could organize my thoughts. In fairness, this is an immense topic, and perhaps it's best understood as a first cut. We'll see what Viva thinks, but in all honesty, I kinda felt like I should have included a small note of apology with this thing. Ah well. Water under the bridge now, thankfully.

So after wrapping all this up, I once again went through the Picard last-minute scramble to the airport (I'm getting quite good at it, unfortunately). M. had sent me some documents to read in preparation for my interview tomorrow, and my interest couldn't be any higher. This stuff is exactly what I spend my idle time thinking about. Even better, the work we did on Apple in the fall of 2004 was essentially vindicated by some of the research that M. had sent.

So who am I interviewing with? A small consulting firm that does strategy work for the telecommunications industry. Anyone who knows me will know how badly I want to get into this business. So I'm really looking forward to tomorrow. This job is mine, and I won't let it go to someone else.

Picard out!