Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes - train and sprint, then rest and reassess.
No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.
Success is the enemy of learning. It can deprive you of the time and the incentive to start over. Beginner’s mind also needs beginner’s time.
Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.
Making money through an early trade is the worst way to win. The bad habits that it reinforces will lead to a lifetime of losses.
My 1 repeated learning in life: “There Are No Adults” Everyone’s making it up as they go along. Figure it out yourself, and do it.
Engaging in politics habituates and rewires the brain to value agreement and signaling. It weakens the ability to reason independently and clearly.
If you’re going to pick the hand you’re dealt, take intelligence, drive, and most importantly, emotional self-discipline.
The modern conceit - educated people think they can outsmart complex systems like evolution, capitalism, weather, biology...
Technology is not only the thing that moves the human race forward, but it’s the only thing that ever has. Without technology, we’re just monkeys playing in the dirt.
Nothing like a health problem to turn up the contrast dial on the rest of life.
"Guilt is society's voice speaking in your head"
“Free education is abundant, all over the internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.”
“An early exit for your startup is a mirage in the desert. If you thirst for it, it disappears.”
“It is the mark of a charalatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way”.
"The Efficient Markets Hypothesis fails because humans are herd animals, not independent rational actors. Thus the best investors tend to be antisocial and contrarian."
"If you’re more passionate about founding a business than the business itself, you can fall into a ten year trap. Better to stay emotionally unattached and select the best opportunity that arises."
“Rich people get paid by the project and pay by the hour.”
“People who try to look smart by pointing out obvious exceptions actually signal the opposite.”
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