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The obstacle is the way.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Appreciation.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Process vs. plan.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Builder, investor, trader.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Work vs. Luck
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.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
NFTs, explained.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Perspective.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Chronos, Kairos.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Said, done.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Comfort vs. pain.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Distraction, focus.
It is really hard to make something easy.
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.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Switching costs.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Everyone, Someone.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
You are what you think you are.
Map ≠ Territory
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Realize.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
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.
Learning.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Cover, story.
Done is better than perfect.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Equity unites, politics divides.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
