March 26th, 2015 3:54pm
quotein a world without growth, everything becomes a negative sum game —
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in a world without growth, everything becomes a negative sum game —
The great thing about early stage technology investing and beaches is that there's always another wave coming and when you catch one right, it's a thing of beauty. —
Gumption is the psychic gasoline that keeps the whole thing going
— Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence
Chris Granger - Coding is not the new literacy
My hunch is that The Blockchain will be to banking, law and accountancy as The Internet was to media, commerce and advertising. — Joi Ito
Why Bitcoin is and isn't like the Internet | Joichi Ito | LinkedIn (via fred-wilson)
The AI Revolution: Road to Superintelligence - Wait But Why
Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax. —
One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. —
You gotta make moves.
1000 True Fans
There falls a shadow, as T.S. Eliot noted, between the conception and the creation. In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important. —
Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies
When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don’t really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it’s really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That’s sort of the middle, and that’s where most people stop… But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem — and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.
The New-Boy Network
Let us create vessels and sails adjusted to the heavenly ether, and there will be plenty of people unafraid of the empty wastes. In the meantime, we shall prepare, for the brave sky-travellers, maps of the celestial bodies.
— Kepler wrote, in a letter to Galileo
"Chance favours the connected mind"
You can be as methodical about building your life as building your business.
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream in the dark recesses of the night awake in the day to find all was vanity. But the dreamers of day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, and make it possible.
— T.E. Lawrence
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.