Most of modern life, all our diseases, are diseases of abundance, not diseases of scarcity.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

When you’re healthy you have 10000 needs, but when you’re sick you only have one need.

Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live.

You can escape competition through authenticity, when you realize that no one can compete with you on being you. That would have been useless advice pre-internet. Post-internet, you can turn that into a career.

The modern struggle – Lone individuals summoning inhuman willpower, fasting, meditating, and exercising, up against armies of scientists and statisticians weaponizing abundant food, screens, and medicine into junk food, clickbait news, infinite porn, endless games and addictive drugs.

You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough. 

Whatever the geeks are doing in their garage on weekends is what the entire earth will be doing 20 years later as a mainstream thing.

Now the main source of capital is how many “robots”, programmers, and machines you have working for you. Those are the ultimate force multipliers.

You have to put in the time, but more important is the judgment. The direction you’re heading in matters more than how fast you drive.

That’s the fundamental delusion – that there is something out there that will make you happy forever.

You’ll do better work if you’re bored rather than busy.

Let’s not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

The world doesn’t always give what you want, but it often gives you what you need.

The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a skill that you develop and a choice that you make. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it.

You want to be rich and anonymous, not poor and famous.

What you do, who you do with, and how you do it are way more important than how hard you work.

Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first.

Arm yourself with specific knowledge.

I would rather read the best hundred books over and over again until I absorb them rather than read every single book out there.

The means of learning are abundant, it’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.

The phrase that I use the most to myself in my head is I just tell myself one word: accept.

I’m not afraid of death anymore. […] I don’t have the quest for immortality anymore.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Swallow your pride, you will not die, it’s not poison.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Be too busy to “do coffee”.

Be present above all else.

Productize yourself.

The older the problem, the older the solution.

The first rule of handling conflict is don’t hang around people who are constantly engaging in conflict.

Debate rather than dictate.

Signaling virtue is a vice.

Anything deep is interesting.

Guard your time. Forget the money.

Eventually you will get what you deserve.

Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being.

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

Busy is the death of productivity.

Desire is just fear by another name.