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Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Value is subjective.
Truth, trend.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Labor, leverage.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Creativity before productivity.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The giver is the recipient.
Vision
More moves and less chat.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Distraction is dilution.
Well done is better than well said.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Appreciation.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Do less, do more.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Realize.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Perspective.
Experience.
Work vs. Luck
Banks vs. Blockchains
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
More ≠ more.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Chronos, Kairos.
Learning.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The first step is the steepest.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Think of many things; do one.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
You are here.
View reading as an investment.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
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.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Hours vs. Iterations
Fear is the mind-killer.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Alan Watts
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
