168 originals
It's all relative.
80:20
Observer, expert, practitioner.
The Overthinker.
The giver is the recipient.
Building vs. betting.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Each man believes only his experience.
NFTs, explained.
Reason for being
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
No one is coming to save you.
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.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
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.
Map ≠ Territory
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Truth
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Done is better than perfect.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Numbers obscure nuance.
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.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Hare & tortoise.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Equity unites, politics divides.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Learning.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Well done is better than well said.
View reading as an investment.
Builder, investor, trader.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
More before better.
You are what you think you are.
