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Map ≠ Territory
Everyone, Someone.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Cover, story.
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.
Knowing vs. understanding.
No, it took me my whole life.
The Overthinker.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
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.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Done is better than perfect.
Switching costs.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Truth, trend.
Said, done.
Labor, leverage.
Mindset vs. Mind set
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
You are what you think you are.
Hierarchy.
Chronos, Kairos.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Hare & tortoise.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Distraction, focus.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Work vs. Luck
If it looks simple, it was hard.
It is really hard to make something easy.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Perspective.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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.
Learning.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Movement, action.
Appreciation.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Don't just do something, stand there.
More before better.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
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