So, a friend told me yesterday I must be brave to post my phone number online like that. I think perhaps “brave” in this context meant “foolish” or perhaps “naive.” Maybe even “boneheaded.” He raises a good point.
In our never-ending and largely futile effort to keep our home life and work life separate, Susie and I now have a new home phone number. It’s (778) 330-7488.
I had an interesting conversation in a dream this afternoon. I was sitting out by the pool, and across the courtyard, there were two amazingly gorgeous lesbians, one blonde and one red head, making out in a pool lounger.
I got in a discussion about the nature of tolerance with them.
“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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