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Don’t live as though you were going to live a myriad years. Fate is hanging over your head; while you have life, while you may, become good. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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To the mother of my children, the woman of my dreams, the daily manifestation of my destiny, I love you @monique.ly! And thanks to our fabulous friends who shared the day with us. @cindyressy (at Palo Alto, California)

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End of the season lacrosse tourney and my boys did great. I'm very proud of them. This is a wonderful sport. (at Treasure Island, San Francisco)

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Monkey-brain vs. Human-brain

Or, The brook trout vs the river, part II

I am constantly being communicated to by my unconscious brain. It tells me many wonderful and helpful things. Waking up. Breathing. It makes my world work.

It is also constantly telling me things that aren't helpful. Check your messages. Stop and walk instead of continuing to run. What's happening in the news? It has gotten used to taking the easy way out, getting a steady stream of positive feedback for doing easy things with an instant reward.

Carl Jung said: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.""

When I really move forward in my life, when I make money outside of a job, when I make my wife happy by being thoughtful, when I create value inside of my company, when I direct my kids to be the way they are capable of, it is because I use the conscious-human-analytical-logical-thinking part of my brain instead of the unconscious-monkey-instant-gratification part of my brain.

I must always be alert to what the unconscious is saying. It's not all bad or wrong. But it does not want me to work hard or struggle or think or expend energy. It is creative, mysterious, unreliable in the real world, but also wise beyond explanation. I am alive! I am good! I am a successful, happy, well adjusted, self-absorbed, beautiful cognitive being.

Sometimes my unconscious is brilliant. It bubbles my most creative and off-the-wall ideas out of nowhere, combining things from my past that I don't even remember thinking about. It makes me lie in bed in the morning wondering about wonderful things. I need (and want) to listen. I need (and want) to give it easy, constant, immediate, gratification, because that keeps it going (and coming), BUT I also need to filter it, catch it before I take mindless action and make sure the human part of me agrees.

I am an animal.

I am a human.

When I am both, I am super human.

When I combine my super brain with other super human brains, and we are similarly motivated, we can trancend human ability.

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Hanging w the G-boys (at Stanford Stadium)

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Rogue River rafting w the fam. Baron went over the side once, but handled it like a champ. (at Galice Resort)

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I love the ride up Old la Honda, but the way down is better!

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Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada. This was lunch a few minutes afterward. Had a ton of fun in Canada!

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Happy anniversary baby. I love you. (at Chinatown San Fran Sico)

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TEDxBerkeley (at UC Berkeley)

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A beautiful, simple, perfect wedding in Belvedere and Sausalito. Thank you, Robert and Liesl, for allowing my family to be a part of your day. It was magical. (at Sausalito Bay Waterfont)

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1870 University, office of the day

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Happy New Year!

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Gnotes: markdown to evernote

I just pushed Gnotes live:

# Write Markdown

** Save it to Dropbox ** See it in Evernote

As much as I looked around, I couldn't find a simple way to write markdown notes and have them saved to Evernote. There is a great Sublime Text plugin, but there were some workflow issues that I didn't like. I just wanted to write a note, save it, and have it synced to Evernote.

Since I couldn't find it, I built it.

I really like Evernote. But I don't like the interface to Evernote. As a coder, I like the interface to Atom, Sublime Text, and iTerm.

Markdown is a beautiful thing, and I prefer to write notes with markdown formatting. Evernote doesn't let me use markdown.

I like to write a lot of notes and Evernote isn't the most convenient thing to pull up.

Sometimes I like to write very long notes and Evernote gets laggy.

I don't like to rely on a third party service to hold all my content, so it's nice to have a local copy of everything.

And... I was curious about AWS Lambda and needed a good test project.

So in my spare cycles I've been working on this little widget. It's free. Give it a shot: https://notes.giggy.com

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Bring on NYE! @monique.ly and @cindyressy really outdid themselves.

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The little dot at the front of the room is me. That was a fun Blockchain talk! Go Skuchain! (at Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan)

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Arrived in Tokyo Japan last night. It's a wonderful place. I just don't fit very well... Like a fat man in a small coat.

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An epic dinner at Street Xo in Madrid with @monique.ly and @pvidala. Frog legs, pig ears, pork belly, hen, lamb, You're the best Pablo! (at Streetxo Gourmet Experience Serrano)