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Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Hierarchy.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Value is subjective.
More ≠ more.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Vision
View reading as an investment.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Cover, story.
Everyone, Someone.
Alan Watts
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Experience.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Hours vs. Iterations
Resistance lifts.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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.
It's all relative.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The giver is the recipient.
More moves and less chat.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Hare & tortoise.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Banks vs. Blockchains
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
You are what you think you are.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Distraction, focus.
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.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Truth
Do less, do more.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
More before better.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Slow down.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Knowing vs. understanding.
