I’m told there were beautiful clear skies here for the past 21 days. Today, it rained.
It rained as I went to get non-green money from the bank machine. It rained as I went to get extra $0.01 stamps to pay the new postal rates. It rained as I walked to Homer Cafe for lunch. And it rained on the way home, too.
“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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