I quote from my pal Mike Lathrop’s excellent journal, then complain about my work and the Oscars, and end with a chronicle of my housework achievements.
My cousin Donny lives in Tennessee. He’s related to me in an uncle-ish sort of way. Donny had two sons. One of them died recently in a lung transplant operation, and that’s how the story starts.
“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
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