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Generalist, specialist.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
More before better.
Shoot.
Truth, trend.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Switching costs.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Hierarchy.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
You are here.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Hours vs. Iterations
Experience.
+2 vs. x2
Numbers obscure nuance.
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 simpler the story, the bigger the market.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Realize.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Appreciation.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
No, it took me my whole life.
Banks vs. Blockchains
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Slow down.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Cover, story.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Experience is up only.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Hare & tortoise.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
More ≠ more.
Perspective.
Process vs. plan.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The giver is the recipient.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.