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Focus is determined by what you ignore.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Chronos, Kairos.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
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.
Generalist, specialist.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
More ≠ more.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Talk is cheap.
Builder, investor, trader.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Switching costs.
Map ≠ Territory
Distraction, focus.
Hare & tortoise.
NFTs, explained.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
It's all relative.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Well done is better than well said.
+2 vs. x2
80:20
Done is better than perfect.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Appreciation.
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.
Building vs. betting.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
View reading as an investment.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Movement, action.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Distraction is dilution.
Realize.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Equity unites, politics divides.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
