168 originals
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The giver is the recipient.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
No one is coming to save you.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Truth.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
80:20
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Alan Watts
Knowing vs. understanding.
NFTs, explained.
More moves and less chat.
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.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Generalist, specialist.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Well done is better than well said.
Truth
It took me years to play like myself.
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.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Creativity before productivity.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Building vs. betting.
It's all relative.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Realize.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Distraction is dilution.
Each man believes only his experience.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
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 suffer more in imagination than reality.
Banks vs. Blockchains
No great thing is created suddenly.
Work vs. Luck
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Perspective.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Experience.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Hierarchy.
Appreciation.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
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.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
