168 originals
More before better.
Truth, trend.
View reading as an investment.
It took me years to play like myself.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Chronos, Kairos.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Creativity before productivity.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
80:20
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Alan Watts
Reason for being
The obstacle is the way.
More ≠ more.
No, it took me my whole life.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Do less, do more.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Done is better than perfect.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Process vs. plan.
Experience.
The Overthinker.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Comfort vs. pain.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Appreciation.
The first step is the steepest.
Cover, story.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Hierarchy.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
The giver is the recipient.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Map ≠ Territory
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Learning.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Labor, leverage.
Slow down.
