10/14 One of the reasons I’m on periscope is to be able to tell people how to make money in an honest, ethical, positive, non-zero-sum kind of way. – N
11/14 It’s not all relative. If I’m a millionaire and my neighbour’s a billionaire, we can both still drive nice cars, still eat well. Doesn’t take anything from me. – N
12/14 If you get into the relativistic mind set, you’re going to hate people who’re doing better than you. Always going to be jealous or envious. And they’ll sense that when you try and do business with them. – N
13/14 Humans are wired to feel what the other person feels about them. Don’t think you’re so clever that you can hide it. – N
14/14 Being anti-wealth will prevent you from becoming wealthy. Be optimistic, be positive. It’s important. Optimists do better in the long run. – N
Q: Why are rich people shooting cars into space when other people are going hungry?
A: Why are we on periscope when other people are hungry?
A: Why are we on periscope when other people are hungry?
There’s enough food in the world. The problem is distribution, politics and war. Warlords use food as a weapon. Global hunger is not a food problem. – N
Elon Musk is inspiring a new generation to develop technology that could get us more energy, save us more time, literally changing the world we’re on. – N
Elon’s kinda the only guy out there that I watch, that makes me think that I’m not doing anything interesting with my life; that makes me sorta question – am I on the right path. Yeah, a little Elon worship. – N
Basic income is tricky. The sentiment is good, but the execution is flawed. The best version of it is the one created by technology abundance. Electricity, basic education, healthcare. Basic income through delivered goods. – N
Basic income + direct democracy would essentially lead to a complete economic collapse into socialism. – N
There’s also the dystopian side of it where the people providing the basic income do it begrudgingly, and in return take away basic rights. – N
At the end of the day, people are unique, they want to contribute, express themselves. Nobody wants to just be fed, or to feel useless. They want to make a difference. – N
I think peace and purpose are interconnected. Happiness is more about peace than it is about joy. If the purpose is internal, sure, but if it is imposed, because of the circumstances of your birth, or something you inherited, then no. – N
1/3 Equality of outcome and equal opportunity are two very different things and people confuse them. – N
2/3 Free people given equal opportunity would make different choices, which will map to the real world in different ways and lead to different outcomes. So some people will do better and some won’t. – N
3/3 Equal outcome is the exact opposite. It destroys motivation, destroys markets, that’s a slippery slide to communism. Equal outcome systems are awful. – N
At work, really worth optimizing for independence rather than optimizing for pay. Focus on output rather than input, that’s the dream. – N
We’ve invented leverage through capital, co-working, technology, and having unique/specific knowledge. We live in an age of leverage. – N
A leveraged worker can out-produce a non-leveraged worker by a factor of a thousand. You want to get into a leveraged job, where you control your time and track on the output. – N
Then, if you do something incredible and move the needle on the business, they’ll have to pay. Even better if they don’t know how you did it, if it’s innate to your abilities. - N
Every human should aspire to be paid purely for their judgment. Not for any work; I want the robots or the capital or the computers to do the work. I want to be paid for my judgment. – N
No one can compete with you on being you. No one can compete with me on being me. When I think about my profession, my job, it’s just me being me. – N
We live in an age of age of technological marvels, revolutions. But we risk missing it because we take everything for granted. The pace of technological change is accelerating so much, we do have within our grasp a life of abundance for all humans. – N
We live in an exciting frontier age, gives me hope for humanity. Just hope we don’t kill it for politics. - N
I don’t think anyone has a real relationship with death. It’s a big unknown. All that exists, is this moment. The past is dead, the future doesn’t exist. – N
Purpose of building a business – Selfishly, financial independence for you. Socially, you get paid for building something that people want. It’s a creative act, a social act, kind of one of the best things that you can do. – N
1/3 Why have kids – you’re here as the result of an unbroken chain of ancestors, from tadpoles to now, that replicated. Ancestors that went through hell and misery to survive. Are you going to be the first to say ‘I couldn’t be bothered, I’m having too good a time’. – N
2/3 You don’t want your genes to know you’ve given up. You’re violating your biological programming in such a severe way that I have to believe it’ll come back to bite you in your moods or sense of meaning or fulfilment. – N
3/3 When you have children, you learn to love something more than you love yourself. Give yourself that gift. – N
There’s a reason why the First Amendment is the first and not the ninth. All the other rights are derived and protected by it. – N
‘Let’s have a dialogue about censorship’ is a slippery slope to hell. Any mechanism for censorship is creating the perfect weapon for the next dictator to take over. If they can muzzle speech, there’s nothing they can’t do. – N
A lot of us have this low level, pervasive feeling of anxiety. There’s this ‘what’s the next thing’ thing. Most obvious if you sit down and do absolutely nothing. Just being aware that the anxiety is what’s making you unhappy I think is important. – N
What I do to combat the anxiety is, I don’t fight it, I just notice it. Would I rather be having this thought right now or would I rather be having peace? I try to let the thoughts run only when I need to get things done. – N
