168 originals
Work vs. Luck
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Movement, action.
Hours vs. Iterations
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The obstacle is the way.
Alan Watts
Value is subjective.
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.
Generalist, specialist.
Learning.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Truth
More moves and less chat.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Equity unites, politics divides.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Hare & tortoise.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Experience.
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.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Experience is up only.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
You are what you think you are.
Chronos, Kairos.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Switching costs.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Well done is better than well said.
Truth, trend.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Labor, leverage.
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.
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.
Done is better than perfect.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Truth, Perception
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Truth.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
