Debate rather than dictate.

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

The older the problem, the older the solution.

Productize yourself.

Be present above all else.

Be too busy to “do coffee”.

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

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

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

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

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

Arm yourself with specific knowledge.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.