Susie and I are up late again, messing around and working on facing computers like the serious geeks we are. The past two nights have been fun, though the days have been a lot of hard-core Web development work.
Tuesday of our trip, we took a taxi to downtown Lima. We were dropped off in the central square, by the cathedral. To its right, the presidential palace squats behind a metal fence and a large courtyard.
So, I’m still talking about Peru. One of the event’s venues was a club called the Jazz Zone. I was going to order a snack at the Jazz Zone one night late, but Amy vehemently objected. The previous night, she said, she’d seen hideous things happening in the kitchen. What do you mean? I asked, turning away from the musicians to concentrate.
“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.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)