In March of 2000, Don and I accompanied a group of MBA students on a study tour to Japan and Korea. Touring factories with Don there to ask questions is a treat, but I had the extra privilege of accompanying Don on a quest for some new headphones in Tokyo. He was the proverbial kid in a candy store, leading me through all the cutting edge electronics stores of Akihabara where he must have tried on a dozen different headphones. By the end of our whirlwind tour I was overwhelmed with product knowledge and points of comparison – and Don had found the PERFECT pair of headphones. This experience became the foundation of a friendship that lasted almost two decades, and just last year when I saw Don he reminded me of that Tokyo adventure when he pulled up the picture of our travel group from his lovingly curated and enormous gallery of memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In March of 2000, Don and I accompanied a group of MBA students on a study tour to Japan and Korea. Touring factories with Don there to ask questions is a treat, but I had the extra privilege of accompanying Don on a quest for some new headphones in Tokyo. He was the proverbial kid … <\/p>\n