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Truth
Talk is cheap.
View reading as an investment.
The world will try and tell you who you are, and you have to tell yourself who you are. There's this ongoing battle, and somehow there needs to be a reconciliation between the two.
Chronos, Kairos.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Perspective.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Distraction.
Alan Watts
Knowing vs. understanding.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
More moves and less chat.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Creativity before productivity.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Equity unites, politics divides.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Cover, story.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Each man believes only his experience.
The first step is the steepest.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Failure = feedback.
Appreciation.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
It's all relative.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Map ≠ Territory
Realize.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Hierarchy.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Builder, investor, trader.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Building vs. betting.
Hours vs. Iterations
Numbers obscure nuance.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Well done is better than well said.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Switching costs.
Experience is up only.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
