Making complex ideas simple.

Hours vs. Iterations

Work vs. Luck

Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.

Experience.

Process vs. plan.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Thought, Spoken, Heard

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

Generalist, specialist.

Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.

Shoot.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

zero-sum, infinite-sum

The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.

Perspective.

Value is subjective.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

The fool is always getting ready to live.

Distraction.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Slow down.

Banks vs. Blockchains

If it looks simple, it was hard.

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.

It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.

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.

Done is better than perfect.

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.

No one is coming to save you.

Equity unites, politics divides.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Truth

If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.

+2 vs. x2

There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Observer, expert, practitioner.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Switching costs.

Comfort vs. pain.

Peace begins when expectation ends.

Said, done.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.

It took me years to play like myself.

Don't just do something, stand there.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

It's all relative.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

Truth, Perception

An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.

You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.

Failure = feedback.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.

The first step is the steepest.

‘Everything is original, nothing is original’