{"id":2069,"date":"2008-09-18T16:19:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T23:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2008-09-18T16:19:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T23:19:43","slug":"a-reminder-to-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/09\/18\/a-reminder-to-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reminder To Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog post is for me, not for you.  Brought to you by a trip down memory lane visiting my adviser at Caltech.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nDo something new.  Do something exciting.  Excel.  Whether the path follows your momentum is not relevant.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t dwell.  Don&#8217;t get stuck.  Don&#8217;t put blinders on.<br \/>\nConsider how the problem will be solved, not how you are going to solve it.<br \/>\nRemember Feynman: solve problems.<br \/>\nNothing is not interesting, but some things are boring.<br \/>\nDyson&#8217;s driving lesson: forced intense conversation to learn what the other has to say.<br \/>\nAvoid confirmatory sources of news, except as a reminder of the base.  Keep your ear close to the brains: their hushed obsessions are the next big news.<br \/>\nLearn something new everyday but also remember to forget the things not worth knowing.<br \/>\nTechnically they can do it or they can&#8217;t, but you can sure help them do it better when they can.<br \/>\nCreate.  Create.  Create.<br \/>\nWrite a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/85-Ways-Tie\/dp\/1841155683\/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1221764339&amp;sr=1-6\">book<\/a>, listen to Sandra Tsing Loh, investigate Willow Garage, and watch Jeff Bezos to understand how to be a merchant.<br \/>\nCreate.  Create.  Create.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog post is for me, not for you. Brought to you by a trip down memory lane visiting my adviser at Caltech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}