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This is a living archive of my thoughts, experiences, and hard-earned insights, drawn from an unusual life. Here you’ll find reflections on the food I’ve eaten, the things I’ve bought, the people I’ve encountered, the places I’ve seen, the books I’ve read, the quotes I’ve kept, and the trends I’ve spotted and capitalized on.
I write this for you, my children, those already here and those yet to come. Daddy loves you more than words can hold. I want each of you to live lives you’re proud of. This is my thinking, in my own voice, left here for you to explore. I hope one day it proves useful.
If, by some unlikely chance, I’m gone before I can guide you in person, let this stand as a poor substitute. But in the more likely case that I’m still here, let this serve as an intellectual archive, a record that I held these convictions long before you were born. May that give weight to my words, and credibility to the wisdom I hope to pass on to you.
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Surely you can understand the lack of truth in these insults, the childish desire to turn a man with an opposing view into an inhuman enemy. Nope I volunteered to spare the you the indignity of begging for my presensce All you desired was power and skill. I gave you both. In my absence you…
A lot of people say that they are not in it for the money but for the tech. But that’s stupid because for the tech to be implemented it needs a very high value. If you want to secure a lot of value, you have to endure a lot of waste. Bitcoin does not exist…
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way become the way. The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition. Choose not to be harmed – and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed – and you haven’t been. Blessings and…
Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid. Lions Circle the Hesitant Prey. People have a sixth sense for the weaknesses of others. If in a…
any good could serve as the medium of exchange, as the scope and size of the economy grows it becomes impractical for people to constantly search for different goods that their counterparty is looking for, carrying out several exchanges for each exchange they want to conduct. A far more efficient solution will naturally emerge, if…
Anger feels good. Although we may consciously experience it as upsetting, somatically it’s a lot like the initial rush of an opiate, a tingling warmth you feel on the insides of your elbows and wrists, in the back of your knees. Understanding that anger was a physical pleasure explained some of the perverse obstinacy with…
I Don’t like lawyers. I think all they do is delay deals, instead of making deals, and every answer they give you is no a letter from George Peacock, who ended by saying, “As with most things in life, time calls for change and it is best to accept that fact. Nevertheless, I shall always…
A self-help book is an oxymoron. You read a self-help book so someone who isn’t yourself can help you, that someone being the author. This is true of the whole self-help genre. It’s true of personal improvement books too. Some might even say it’s true of religion books. But some others might say that those…
Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless. Intelligent, rational and hard-working people can govern themselves perfectly fine. But unfortunately, only a small amount of the world population fits that description. Intelligent, rational and hard-working people can be reasoned with through arguments.…
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