And hopefully, instead of cowbell, the links this week are the cure!Busy week this week here, Friends, so you are going to get a bit of a reprieve from the usual intro. But for those of you who regularly like to partake in blowing off some steam on Friday and Saturday nights (and you know who you are!), it is my sincerest hope that you look forward to this email as a way to recover from your previous night's debauchery. You see, you guys might not know this, but I consider myself a bit of a loner. When I started this newsletter, I tended to think of myself as a one-man wolf pack. But when you subscribed to the Friends of Dave newsletter, I knew that you were one of my own. And my wolf pack, it grew by one. So, there were a few of us in the wolf pack. I was alone first in the pack, and then a bunch of you joined in later. And over the past few months, as I have gotten introduced to more people, I thought, "Wait a second, could it be?" And now I know for sure, I was able to add a lot more guys and gals to my FoD wolf pack. All of us wolves, running around the desert together, in Las Vegas...Boston....New York...Europe....APAC...Long Island...etc., looking for a bit of knowledge and more LinkedIn connections. So today, I make a toast...We could always use more people in the wolf pack. If you like this email, please spread the word and pass it along. In the meantime, enjoy the links below -- nothing too heavy this week (especially for those of you with a splitting headache), I promise. Definitely check out the story behind the subject line as well.Have a great weekend. And get geared up to turn October into "Rocktober!" XOXODavePS: for those confused by this preamble, click here to see the inspiration.