168 originals
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Creativity before productivity.
Reason for being
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Think of many things; do one.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
View reading as an investment.
Learning.
More moves and less chat.
Distraction is dilution.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Experience.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Truth, Perception
No great thing is created suddenly.
80:20
It took me years to play like myself.
Hierarchy.
Truth
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
You are what you think you are.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
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.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Realize.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Labor, leverage.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Chronos, Kairos.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Map ≠ Territory
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
NFTs, explained.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Failure = feedback.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Hours vs. Iterations
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.