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"[The Hukou system is] a registration policy that ties every Chinese citizen to their place of birth... a Hukou certificate essentially acts like a permanent visa for your own hometown." - Albert Wang (Defining the Hukou system) 00:01:05
"Chinese cities were difficult and expensive to get into—much like Harvard without the financial aid." - Albert Wang (On…
Time - an undervalued asset.
"Don't let yourself get to the age of 90... and realize that while you were trying to avoid fomo, you actually missed out on living." - [11:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TMPXK9tw5U&t=663s)
"Social media is free because you pay for it with your time." - [08:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TMPXK9tw5U&t=533s)
*"The body, mind, and character that you will have in the future are…
00:13:58 "The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most. Take classical music, the icons of the field: Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart. They had to generate hundreds and hundreds of compositions to come up with a much smaller number of masterpieces."
00:14:20 "The more output you…
00:09:37 "And so the key to being original is just a simple thing of avoiding the leap from step three to step four. Instead of saying 'I'm crap,' you say 'The first few drafts are always crap and I'm just not there yet.'"
00:10:27 "There is good evidence that Firefox and Chrome users significantly outperform Internet Explorer and…
"When I read the emails from thousands of people, I noticed a heavy, shared frustration. These weren't people who had tried and failed; they were people who felt like spectators in their own lives. They were stuck in the Dark Playground for years at a time, not because the work was too hard, but because they couldn't get past the monkey at the starting line. The frustration was not that they couldn't…