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If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Building vs. betting.
Vision
Movement, action.
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.
The Overthinker.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
The obstacle is the way.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Work vs. Luck
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Banks vs. Blockchains
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
It took me years to play like myself.
Alan Watts
Learning.
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Experience.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Distraction, focus.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Fear is the mind-killer.
No one is coming to save you.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Perspective.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Generalist, specialist.
Well done is better than well said.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
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.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Reason for being
Labor, leverage.
+2 vs. x2
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.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Chronos, Kairos.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
More moves and less chat.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
