168 originals
Creativity before productivity.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Each man believes only his experience.
Distraction, focus.
Value is subjective.
It's all relative.
Building vs. betting.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Builder, investor, trader.
Map ≠ Territory
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Labor, leverage.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
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.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Vision
You are what you think you are.
NFTs, explained.
+2 vs. x2
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Distraction is dilution.
It is really hard to make something easy.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Chronos, Kairos.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
More ≠ more.
Everyone, Someone.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Failure = feedback.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Hierarchy.
Experience is up only.
Reason for being
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
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.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Slow down.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Done is better than perfect.
Banks vs. Blockchains
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
