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Banks vs. Blockchains
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Numbers obscure nuance.
You are here.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Hare & tortoise.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Reason for being
Each man believes only his experience.
No one is coming to save you.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Think of many things; do one.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Movement, action.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Value is subjective.
Experience.
Alan Watts
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Do less, do more.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Slow down.
Process vs. plan.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Talk is cheap.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
+2 vs. x2
Everyone, Someone.
The first step is the steepest.
Distraction is dilution.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Experience is up only.
Said, done.
View reading as an investment.
Switching costs.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Appreciation.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
More ≠ more.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
You are what you think you are.
