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Don't just do something, stand there.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Hours vs. Iterations
Done is better than perfect.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
More before better.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Slow down.
Labor, leverage.
Perspective.
No, it took me my whole life.
Generalist, specialist.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Reason for being
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
It is really hard to make something easy.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
The obstacle is the way.
No great thing is created suddenly.
No one is coming to save you.
80:20
Experience is up only.
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.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Value is subjective.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
More ≠ more.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Movement, action.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Creativity before productivity.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The Overthinker.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Alan Watts
Said, done.
You are here.
Chronos, Kairos.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Appreciation.
