Wisdom

Because if you want the benefits of something in life, you have to also want the costs.

I thought I’d recover from my skull-poisoning and everything would go back to normal, shipshape, better than ever, really! Redemption would have straightened out all the strangeness, like “ah yes, I get it now, this was all for something.” I mean, if there’s no arc, what’s the point? You just felt bad and then you felt less bad? That’s it ?

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It’s not that most people can’t make heavy things. It’s that they don’t notice they aren’t. Lightness has its virtues—it pulls us in, subtly, innocently, whispering, ' Just do things .' The machine rewards movement, so we keep going, collecting badges. One day, we look up and realize we’ve been running in place.

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When I worry constantly about the imperfections of my relationship, I keep my love at an equally constant distance.

Trading markets is often dismissed as soulless and zero sum. For every winner there is a loser. I think this is a narrow view. The culture will keep softening its view on markets. Our discourse on technocapital has moved through something like the five stages of grief at a civilizational scale. We are somewhere in depression and are edging toward... See more

This multidimensional researcher-investor-builder perspective proved invaluable, enabling our collective Hivemind to compound insight toward a single mission: to help crypto happen sooner and better than it would without us.

16) Only the paranoid survive. Panic early. Always have an exit plan. Avoid deep drawdowns. Have humility and leave room for unknown unknowns. Be aware when you are selling tails. Stay liquid. Respect counterparty risk. Respect path dependence.

The cure for anxiety is almost always found in some kind of radical simplification, a simplification that slowly opens up a very physical, rested experience of timelessness.

At any given time, you’re either pre–heavy thing or post–heavy thing . You’ve either made something weighty already, or you haven’t. Pre–heavy thing people are still searching, experimenting, iterating. Post–heavy thing people have crossed the threshold. They’ve made something of substance—something that commands respect, inspires others, and... See more