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Don't just do something, stand there.
Hierarchy.
Alan Watts
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Creativity before productivity.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Comfort vs. pain.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Switching costs.
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
More moves and less chat.
You are here.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Truth, trend.
Distraction, focus.
Everyone, Someone.
Process vs. plan.
More before better.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Distraction is dilution.
Experience.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Experience is up only.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
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.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Building vs. betting.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Truth.
Vision
It is really hard to make something easy.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Do less, do more.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Done is better than perfect.
Banks vs. Blockchains
