Making complex ideas simple.

No one is coming to save you.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

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.

You are what you think you are.

If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.

More before better.

Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

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.

Movement, action.

Distraction is dilution.

Experience.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines

Cover, story.

Labor, leverage.

Hierarchy.

Value is subjective.

What you work on is more important than how hard you work.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Perspective.

It took me years to play like myself.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Creativity before productivity.

Distraction, focus.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.

Failure = feedback.

Building vs. betting.

Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.

Failure is the frame, not the picture.

Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.

Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.

Truth.

You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.

Slow down.

Thought, said, heard, understood.

If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.

Truth, Perception

Alan Watts

80:20

We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.

Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.

+2 vs. x2

It is really hard to make something easy.

Switching costs.

Distraction.

Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.

Chronos, Kairos.

It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.

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.

NFTs, explained.

Reason for being

Expectation is the root of all heartache.