168 originals
Generalist, specialist.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Learning.
Distraction.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
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.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
The Overthinker.
Truth
Building vs. betting.
Cover, story.
Think of many things; do one.
Distraction is dilution.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Slow down.
More before better.
More moves and less chat.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Movement, action.
The obstacle is the way.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Each man believes only his experience.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
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.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Builder, investor, trader.
Fear is the mind-killer.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Experience is up only.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Switching costs.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
View reading as an investment.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Well done is better than well said.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Hours vs. Iterations
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
