168 originals
Value is subjective.
Shoot.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Truth
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Banks vs. Blockchains
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Reason for being
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
No one is coming to save you.
Distraction, focus.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Hare & tortoise.
You are here.
Equity unites, politics divides.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Process vs. plan.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Switching costs.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Everyone, Someone.
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.
Comfort vs. pain.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Don't just do something, stand there.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
No, it took me my whole life.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Mindset vs. Mind set
80:20
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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.
More moves and less chat.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
+2 vs. x2
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The first step is the steepest.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Hours vs. Iterations
Alan Watts
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
