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There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Truth, trend.
Hours vs. Iterations
Experience is up only.
Experience.
No great thing is created suddenly.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
+2 vs. x2
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Distraction, focus.
Distraction.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
More ≠ more.
Think of many things; do one.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Reason for being
Slow down.
Truth, Perception
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
No, it took me my whole life.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Chronos, Kairos.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Each man believes only his experience.
Cover, story.
View reading as an investment.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Well done is better than well said.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
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.
Numbers obscure nuance.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Building vs. betting.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Talk is cheap.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Vision
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
The giver is the recipient.
Truth
Switching costs.
Hare & tortoise.
Learning.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
