One of the best things that happened to me in the silicon valley is that I was able to make a lot of money and to learn how to dream and execute projects, and also I was able to grow as a person.
So while I was working in the valley I used my money to travel and see the most beautiful things in the world. And what I mean by that is I mean the greatest and best museums in the world that hold the most precious works of art.
Here is the essential list:
Louvre and Versailles , Musée d'Orsay in Paris
Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid
Rijksmuseum, and the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, Kunstmuseum in The Hague.
Vatican, Vatican Museums, Galleria Borghese, the city of Rome and its ruins
Florence and everything in it
Gaudi in Barcelona
MOMA in New York
Metropolitan museum of Art in New York
National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and the British Museum in London, as well as the Tate
Later I visited the World of Salvador Dali and the beautiful countryside of Spain, especially the Costa Brava coast.
What I learned is that Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondrian is a terrible painting that has aged really badly, and that after visiting the Museum and Theater of Salvador Dali in Figueres I can no longer look at any gallery show with the same eyes - Dali surpasses them all by a mile. All art now to me looks ugly and badly made. Dali had the most superb taste among all modern artists and is of course only surpassed by Leonardo and Michelangelo.