Quotes

“What sickens me about left-wing people, especially the intellectuals, is their utter ignorance of the way things actually happen.”

"The reason to win the game is to be free of the game"

• Read the same 100 books over and over
• Celebrities are the most miserable people in the World
• You’re not your public image
• Rich and anonymous > poor and famous
• Play and don’t overload your brain with too many information
• You want to work as an athlete, a mental athlete
• We’re not meant to work 9 to 5
• Own a business
• Work for yourself
• If someone can tell you when to work and what to where you’re not free
• Companies are smaller and smaller because they can externalise easily
• Maybe these gigs will include also the high-quality work
• Work will be organised in sprints and will be mission-based
• Electricity did to the work landscape what automation is doing today
• It’s impossible predicting what job is going to be created
• Universal basic income would bankrupt a country
• UBI doesn’t provide meaning to people
• UBI doesn’t take into account specific needs
• We should provide basic services instead
• You should educate yourself all your life
• Generalised AI is not coming in our lifetime
• We don’t even understand what really happens inside a cell, let alone the brain
• Intelligence is relevant only in its surrounding environment
• Equal opportunities > equal outcomes
• We all want to be socialist but with the head, we think capitalism
• White-collar vs blue-collar is the real battle going on
• Everyone can broadcast anything at anytime
• It’s also easy to set a mob and take someone out online
• Outraged people are the stupidest people on social media
• We have also anti-mob tactics
• News has become commoditised, they’re not propaganda
• We will create decentralised media that cannot be suppressed
• Nowadays nobody has the privilege not to have political opinions
• Some technology is neutral, some are political
• Science is hard for people and often facts are not enough to make up their minds
• There’s no room for nuances, people are very polarised
• We live in a dictatorship of 51% so all your believes have to fit in one of the two sides. This doesn’t make you a clear thinker.
• Being alone and enjoying it is a superpower aka the art of doing nothing
• Meditation is self-therapy
• Peace is happiness at rest, happiness is peace in motion
• Peace is not about external problems but about giving up on the idea of problems itself
• It’s easier to change yourself than to change the world
• People are not going to giving up economic growth
• Lower the price of clean tech
• Being forced to articulate thoughts helps to understand them more than simply sit in a room and think about them
• Understanding the basics of reasoning is better than memorising advanced concepts
• A good book you can read one page at night and then spend the rest of the night reasoning about it
• The meaning of life is a “why” questions and it’s endless
• You end up with Agrippa's trilemma where you have only the following 3 dead ends
• 1 Infinite regress
• 2 Circular reasoning
• 3 Axiom
• The only answer is “because” meaning that we need to make up our own answer for the meaning of life
• All the great questions are paradoxes
• Thinking about them gives you insights that bring you a certain level of peace
• Everyone can be rich
• Imagine if tomorrow everybody was trained in software and engineering. We would create all the animation necessary not to work anymore and just focus on creativity.
• Richness is about education
• The universe has infinite resources
• Lack of material possession can make you unhappy but material possession won’t make you happy
• If you are smart you should be able to figure out how to be happy
• Busy minds, called also monkey minds are not peaceful
• You have to develop peace FROM mind not peace OF mind
• There’s a fundamental delusion about thinking that there’s something external to us that can bring us peace and happiness
• Once you solve your money problem you stop sacrificing something today with the idea you’re gonna get something in return tomorrow
• Do something you love, do a lot of money or live like a monk so money will stop to be an issue
• Focus on being authentic, unique, creative and not replaceable
• There are 2 great depictions: heroine and a monthly salary
• You have to ignore your peers
• “That’s easy for you to say” and “keeping up with the Jones” is a big trap
• Stop thinking it’s someone else’s fault
• If you judge others you’re gonna separate yourself, feel lonely and negative
• Reality is neutral and how you interpret it is your choice alone
• Life is short, you’re gonna die, choose to be happy
• Confucious: a man has 2 life, the second one is when you realise you only have one
• Desire is suffering. Choose wisely. Choose one desire at a time
• Force yourself to be positive until it becomes automatic
• Smile more, hug more, get sunlight, spend time in nature, meditate
• Trying to sound smart is a disease
• Good question about it: “Would I be still interested in this thing if I couldn’t tell anyone?”
• If you are successful you’re gonna be inundated by inbound opportunities that you cannot manage and it’s harder to pick up something you by yourself
• You’re never gonna make more money than you think you’re worth
• Pick an aspiration hourly rate and be extremely jealous of your time
• This will help you define the cost of things like meetings or business travels
• Embrace what you’re doing at the moment
• Do art, creativity, love. Do things for their own sake
• Work should feel like play to you so no-one can compete with you