Lunch with John Rice and Greg Mort, March 09, Inspired Sleepy Dreams poem

John and Greg,

I really enjoyed our conservation in Chevy Chase. John, I would be happy to mentor some of your budding entreprenuers in the Maryland/DC area and I would condider it on honor to speak to your classes in NYC --- particularily the ones for entrenpreuners.

The banter we had about starting up a business and stepping out of the corporate world was really stimulating. Somewhat rare to have a business tycoon, famous artist, and carzy ass mathematicain share their go solo catharsis. The way we were each captured by a sense of destiny, compulsion, pull was intriguing. --- after some period of weighing, evaluating, calculating it seemed each shifted,  from logic to feeling an inxorable pull to follow our respective path.

I thinik we should do something with this. Below is my fumbling attemp to capture some of it, along with the idnetity issues a startup entreprenuer faces. Since  I volunteered to be firest in the barrel maybe you guys could add, refine, expand ... this beginning.

We should teach this stuff to people starting up, I think it would really help big time. It's beatiful, three rafically different cultures of business, art, science;  we triangulate the dreams/tumult that compel one to his own path. The driven social engineer, the artist who's hands capture the heavens, the mathematician who quantifies the unquantifiable..... each step off the edge. And recount their transformational moment when pulled to fulfill a personal destiny.

Here's a sonnet ' sleepy Dreams to compelling Destiny'. I hope it captures a piece of that magic moment when we each realized we had to follow our dream.

Regards,

Tom

ps- Escher had it right: 'I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough'. 

pps --- one of my favorites Thomas E. Lawrence nailed it: 'All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible'.