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The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The giver is the recipient.
Value is subjective.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Distraction, focus.
Work vs. Luck
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Builder, investor, trader.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
View reading as an investment.
Creativity before productivity.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Hours vs. Iterations
Done is better than perfect.
Experience is up only.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
More ≠ more.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Realize.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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.
Map ≠ Territory
Knowing vs. understanding.
More before better.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Truth, Perception
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.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Cover, story.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Everyone, Someone.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Hare & tortoise.
It's all relative.
Switching costs.
Building vs. betting.
Reason for being
No, it took me my whole life.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
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.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Numbers obscure nuance.
80:20
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Think of many things; do one.
Resistance lifts.
