anthony

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readings

• Testifying at the Senate about A.I.-Selected Content on the Internet
• The Digital Maginot Line
• 1,000 True Fans
• Meditations on Moloch
• Positional Scarcity
• The Tyranny of Structurelessness
• The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
• Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution
• Fat Protocols

writings

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quotes

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”

“When you can’t change the direction of the wind, adjust your sails.”

“Freedom isn’t secured by filling up your heart’s desire but by removing desire.”

“Direction is far more important than speed. A lot of people are going nowhere fast.”

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”

“Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.”

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

“Let us balance life’s books each day… The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.”

“My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men and women to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are.”

“Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others.”

“To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
To weep is to risk being called sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To try is to risk failure.

But risk must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The people who risk nothing may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, or really live. Chained by their servitude, they are slaves who have forfeited all freedom. Only a person who risks is truly free.”