the gates notes

solidcore January 21, 2010

we have been scanning the latest thinking of one of the most influential living humans. the gates notes is the personal site of bill gates, founder and chairman of microsoft. he has broken his content into simple buckets of thinking, learning and travels. in the learning section we found this video from /www.cam.ac.uk/
presenting thoughts on power use by David MacKay.

always drawing, always making...

Pretty much every day of every week I awake and need to either get to my sketchbook, my chisels, my saws or my jewelers torch. The visuals come in as I sleep and during time spent in water. My responsibility is to capture as much of this as possible. If I do, more comes in... if I slack the river dries up. So I am always in Flow, always in some form of creating something or other. No its not exhausting, its invigorating and I look forward to each new "download".

travel, I have to move and travel...

I've found that if I set still too long I get wanderlust. I've traveled so much in my life around this planet that it is an essential ingredient to my continued happy and productive existence as a human being.