“We’re swimming in an ocean of information like none of our ancestors before us. And this access to abundant sources of data presents a mixed blessing. There is so much competing information, both trivial and significant.”
Source: Sending Signals: Amplify the Reach, Resonance and Results of Your Ideas
“Your audience needs to know this is important enough to pay attention to right now instead of all the other signals competing for their attention.”
Source: Sending Signals: Amplify the Reach, Resonance and Results of Your Ideas
“The names of those who have influenced our ideas tell a story in themselves: who they were, when and where they lived, what their contribution to the great ongoing conversation was or is.”
Source: Sending Signals: Amplify the Reach, Resonance and Results of Your Ideas
“If you have an idea worth spreading, you don’t need permission from anybody to spread it. If you have an idea worth spreading, the reliable research, data and definitions can be added later. If you have an idea worth spreading, you can sound it out with some loyal friends and let them remind you how much hard-won experience you’ve racked up—how many thousands of hours in deliberate practice.”
Source: Sending Signals: Amplify the Reach, Resonance and Results of Your Ideas
“The story of Blue 52 roaming the oceans, singing its own deep-sea version of a high lonesome, has struck a nerve with a great many individuals. And it’s no wonder. Its loneliness touches the loneliness we sometimes feel when we’re sending signals into the void.”
Source: Sending Signals: Amplify the Reach, Resonance and Results of Your Ideas
“Ideas are being described in this book as free-floating entities that thrive in a great many environments.”
Source: Sending Signals: Amplify the Reach, Resonance and Results of Your Ideas
“We encounter ideas through the prism of our own lived experience and because of this a good argument can be made that we best understand big ideas when they’re presented through the same personal prism.”
Source: Sending Signals: Amplify the Reach, Resonance and Results of Your Ideas
“In a world where AI could generate almost anything on demand, Bitcoin was the one thing that refused to be generated on demand.”
Source: The Day Satoshi Returned: A Novel
“Total circulation will be 21,000,000 coins. It’ll be distributed to network nodes when they make blocks, with the amount cut in half every 4 years. first 4 years: 10,500,000 coins next 4 years: 5,250,000 coins next 4 years: 2,625,000 coins next 4 years: 1,312,500 coins etc... When that runs out, the system can support transaction fees if needed. It’s based on open market competition, and there will probably always be nodes willing to process transactions for free.”
“If you want to become a Bitcoin Whale, the first step is to get in the water.”
Source: One Coin. Two Coin. What Coin? Bitcoin: Crypto for Grownups Made as Easy as Child's Play