So, I just took a short-term teaching position at BCIT, the local, well-regarded polytechnic institute.
I’ll be teaching a course called “Dreamweaver MX Advanced / Database Driven Websites” as part of the New Media Design program.
It was a little spooky how I got the job. Susie and I were walking down the street about two weeks ago, just chatting, and I said to her, “You know, I miss teaching. I liked working with the students in L.A. and maybe I should look into that here.”
And Susie said, “Really? Actually, I just turned down a teaching job yesterday—do you want it?”
Spooky, it was. So I called up the woman, and came in for an interview, and I’ll be teaching one day a week for six weeks and it’ll be a lot of fun.
“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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