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Jeff Hawkins at ETL today

Niall and I have become Stanford groupies. He says it’s pseudo b-skool for him, and - even though I did that already - I might agree. In my case it’s revisiting the themes from the entrepreneurial side. I was a strategy and econ wonk in b-skool, and thought it’d be impossible to teach entrepreneurialism. While it may be, I now find that having designated times to discuss the issues, tradeoffs and best practices is very useful.

The speaker at today’s ETL session needs no geeky introduction, as it’s Jeff Hawkins of Palm fame. We’re gonna get our Treos signed! Niall’s got the pen and I’m getting the fixative. See you today at Terman at 4:30.

This is the second time I’ve fetishized my handheld - my old cute orange Clié has a little kitty hair (under the piece of tape) from my now-long dead familiar kitty.

I’m willing to guess that Jeff won’t burst into song, but it’s impossible to tell.

I’ll post pictures of our trophies and the process after our adventure.

UPDATE: Ah, ok so here we are, with the quintessential geek photo from Niall. Jeff was a good sport about signing, but he seemed keenest to sign on the inside. I have to apply fixative to mine today to make sure it doesn’t scratch off. (it’s reduced here the poor-man’s way, head up to flickr for the original in all Niall’s fooery). Nice composition!

Note also for the entrepreurial engineers out there, that 106miles is tonight. They say it’s full, but you might want to see if you qualify for the invites to the next one.

And dammit speaking of cats - why isn’t kittenwar back up yet???

Edit: .org, .com - tomato tomato - Thx to JeffC for the link correction.