168 originals
Numbers obscure nuance.
No, it took me my whole life.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Everyone, Someone.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Hare & tortoise.
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.
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.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Mindset vs. Mind set
It's all relative.
80:20
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Creativity before productivity.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Perspective.
Experience.
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.
Cover, story.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
zero-sum, infinite-sum
You are here.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
More before better.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Resistance lifts.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
No one is coming to save you.
Value is subjective.
Alan Watts
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Reason for being
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Hours vs. Iterations
Truth
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Fear is the mind-killer.
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.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Appreciation.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Movement, action.
Knowing vs. understanding.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Do less, do more.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
