168 originals
Work vs. Luck
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Equity unites, politics divides.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Experience.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
No, it took me my whole life.
NFTs, explained.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Said, done.
More moves and less chat.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
More ≠ more.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
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.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Done is better than perfect.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Failure = feedback.
Vision
Chronos, Kairos.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Map ≠ Territory
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
You are what you think you are.
Reason for being
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
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.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Knowing vs. understanding.
80:20
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.
Do less, do more.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Alan Watts
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
