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Value your time at an hourly rate and ruthlessly spend to save time at that rate. You will never be worth more than you think you're worth.

"The reality is life is a single-player game. You’re born alone. You’re going to die alone. All of your interpretations are alone. All your memories are alone. You’re gone in three generations and nobody cares. Before you showed up, nobody cared. It’s all single-player." - @naval

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

People think they need more knowledge when in reality they need to implement the knowledge they already possess. Because active implementation of knowledge requires real work, they procrastinate by reading more stuff while thinking that they are doing something productive.

Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself.

Every belief has a consequence.

Humans do not crave money in order to buy things They crave money in order to feel that they can.

If their action contradicts their speech, believe the action.

Start making small investments early in life: • Takes many failures to figure it out • Best investments have long feedback loops • Capital : labor ratio generally increases in life • Can improve all the way through old age

“I’m a human being who remained independent, resisted conditioning, never belonged to any religion, political party, organization, nation, race. I’ve been myself, without any adjective. That has given me integrity, individuality, authenticity, and the bliss of fulfillment.” -Osho

Almost all Americans own a smartphone or a computer. Each device contains the library of Alexandria. The sum total of all world knowledge. You can learn anything. Why don't you? Too busy tracking social status. Too enthralled by imagery your evolution can't resist.

As Charlie Munger says, “Be worthy of a worthy mate.”https://twitter.com/neilstrauss/status/964545816005234689 …

"Perhaps the biggest mistake I made in the past was that I believed love was about finding the right person. In reality, love is about becoming the right person. Don’t look for the person you want to spend your life with. Become the person you want to spend your life with."

The two party system is an emergent "bug" in representative democracy.https://twitter.com/davealevine/status/963555681122111490 …

Sophisticated foods are bittersweet (wine, beer, coffee, chocolate). Addictive relationships are cooperative and competitive. Work becomes flow at the limits of ability. The flavor of life is on the edge.

If you love learning and building there is no judgement in starting over