168 originals
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Banks vs. Blockchains
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Value is subjective.
Everyone, Someone.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Vision
Work vs. Luck
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Hare & tortoise.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Switching costs.
Truth, Perception
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Said, done.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Learning.
Perspective.
Hierarchy.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Chronos, Kairos.
Creativity before productivity.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
View reading as an investment.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Comfort vs. pain.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Distraction is dilution.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
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 greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
80:20
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Labor, leverage.
It is really hard to make something easy.
You are what you think you are.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
It took me years to play like myself.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Each man believes only his experience.
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.
Distraction.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
