168 originals
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Hours vs. Iterations
Done is better than perfect.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Work vs. Luck
zero-sum, infinite-sum
No one is coming to save you.
It's all relative.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Equity unites, politics divides.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
More before better.
Truth
Learning.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Cover, story.
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.
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 obstacle is the way.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Shoot.
Distraction is dilution.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Talk is cheap.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
The giver is the recipient.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Banks vs. Blockchains
It took me years to play like myself.
Process vs. plan.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Alan Watts
Fear is the mind-killer.
Resistance lifts.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
The first step is the steepest.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Chronos, Kairos.
Creativity before productivity.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Hierarchy.
Don't just do something, stand there.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
