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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Truth, trend.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Appreciation.
Slow down.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Labor, leverage.
Builder, investor, trader.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Perspective.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Distraction.
Process vs. plan.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Value is subjective.
More ≠ more.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Generalist, specialist.
Resistance lifts.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Building vs. betting.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
More moves and less chat.
Reason for being
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The first step is the steepest.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Think of many things; do one.
Truth
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Truth, Perception
Knowing vs. understanding.
Map ≠ Territory
It is really hard to make something easy.
Do less, do more.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
View reading as an investment.
The Overthinker.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Work vs. Luck
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
+2 vs. x2
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Hare & tortoise.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
