Sublime

There are many things never worth risking, no matter the potential gain.

One of these technologies is blockchain. What’s interesting about blockchain is not cryptocurrency. That’s noise, ripples on the surface of the human economy. To be quite honest, it’s not particularly interesting from a scientific point of view, and it’s not going to have a major effect on humanity.

« The chief enemy of good decisions is a lack of sufficient perspectives on a problem. » Alain de Botton9

He told a good story, and people wanted to believe it. This is a big part of why room for error, flexibility, and financial independence—important themes discussed in previous chapters—are indispensable. The bigger the gap between what you want to be true and what you need to be true to have an acceptable outcome, the more you are protecting yourse

By compounding individual curiosity, social flow has three powerful effects—and it’s these that make a community uniquely valuable, much more so than its members’ status or strategic influence.

If we had to consciously process every decision, we’d never get past breakfast.

Success in any field brings with it power—the power of wealth, power over other people’s careers, the power to make change in the world. And power is a drug that downplays costs and magnifies rewards.