AI won’t replace programmers, but rather make it easier for programmers to replace everyone else.

Only two things are pursued for their own sake - even if they make you feel worse or make you worse off - truth and love.

Be a creator and you won’t have to worry about jobs, careers, and AI.

Spend your time in the company of geniuses, sages, children, and books.

If you want the meeting, make it an offer, not an ask.

What did you come to this earth for, if not for love?

It’s not 10,000 hours, it’s 10,000 iterations.

Belief is a function of identity. Understanding is not.

The greatest freedom is the ability to interpret any part of reality however you’d like, including the freedom to not interpret it at all.

Time is money but money is not time.

People think they can’t change themselves, but they can. People think they can change others, but they can’t.

It doesn’t take money to make money, it takes leverage to make money. Distribution…Code… networks… knowledge arbitrage

The reason to win the game is so that you can be free of it.

Your number one job as a parent is to provide unconditional love to your kids, because it’s the one thing that they can’t get anywhere else.

Happiness (if you want it):*

1. Meet basic needs

2. Avoid cheap dopamine

3. Leave the past alone

4. Limit desires to ones achievable at the edge of your capability

5. Find something beyond yourself (mission, children, God)

*Most people want something else.

Truth-seekers take feedback from nature (planes have to fly), free markets (customers have to buy), or competition (militaries have to win).

Consensus-seekers take feedback from people (actors want fans, academics want honors, politicians want votes, journalists want status).

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