168 originals
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Value is subjective.
Banks vs. Blockchains
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Labor, leverage.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Truth.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Map ≠ Territory
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Creativity before productivity.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
No great thing is created suddenly.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
You are what you think you are.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
The first step is the steepest.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Resistance lifts.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
+2 vs. x2
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
More moves and less chat.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
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.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Builder, investor, trader.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Distraction.
Talk is cheap.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Building vs. betting.
Experience.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
