To sit down on a regular basis and listen as hard as you can to yourself. To decide what it is in the whole world that you most want to see exist. To refine this desire into a series of actions and promises. To execute, and flawlessly. To wake up each day not knowing exactly what must be done, but certain of the process by which you will do it. Confident that, like prayer, yours is a means of getting the body to lead.

They told me they had a machine I would be interested in. They told me it would knock my socks off. I showed up with an extra pair of socks, I didn’t get it that they were exaggerating. Guys you gotta get better at this. Sometimes your big dumb ideas are so sad to be around, because they’re so awful.