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Do less, do more.
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
Mindset vs. Mind set
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Learning.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Each man believes only his experience.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Work vs. Luck
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Hare & tortoise.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Generalist, specialist.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
You are what you think you are.
Distraction, focus.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Cover, story.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Perspective.
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
Alan Watts
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.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Hours vs. Iterations
Switching costs.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
NFTs, explained.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Value is subjective.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
The first step is the steepest.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
More moves and less chat.
You are here.
Experience.
Map ≠ Territory
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Shoot.
Appreciation.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Vision
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
