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You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Movement, action.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Everyone, Someone.
Done is better than perfect.
Hare & tortoise.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The giver is the recipient.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Hours vs. Iterations
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Talk is cheap.
Vision
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Cover, story.
More before better.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Numbers obscure nuance.
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.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
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.
It took me years to play like myself.
You are what you think you are.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
You are here.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
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.
Chronos, Kairos.
Distraction is dilution.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The first step is the steepest.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
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.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Said, done.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Do less, do more.
