Diego Perez

“If you look at your phone, every single app on your phone is trying to make your life easier. How can I get this food to you faster? How can I give you a ride from, you know, point X to point Z? How can I just make, simplify your life as much as possible? And …”

“When I try to, especially if I'm releasing an essay, I try to get it to 80%. If it feels like it's 80% of the way there, it's good enough, and if it's good enough and people really resonate with it, then maybe that can become a chapter in a future book.”

“When people ask me, like, how can you put so much time into meditating? I'm like, it's a better investment than the S&P 500. Like, it's a, and it's an investment that gives massive returns.”

“The act of letting go is healing, but it doesn't mean it's a one-time event. You may have to let that same thing go over and over again because the mind is malleable, but it requires practice.”

“Part of being a founder is adaptability. You have to be able to adapt. You can have a clear goal, but if you need to shift things to actually, like, be able to make a return to your investors, to be able to actually, you know, hire more people or really produc…”

“So I meditate two hours a day every day. I've been doing that since Twenty-fifteen. Started meditating in twenty-twelve, but then twenty-fifteen when I, was when I started meditating daily, and.”

“So now when I put something out, I know that one piece, one post, is not going to make or break anything. Anything. It's a long game of stamina. Well, where it will accumulate into something bigger over time. So if one thing fails, it doesn't matter at all.”

“We started a venture capital company called Wisdom Ventures, and it's been successful. You know, we've we had a, our first fund was ten million, our second fund, seventy-seven million, and we've invested in great companies that are really trying to scale welln…”

“Actually, this year when I finished the 60 day retreat, I looked at my, the course, sort of all the courses that I've sat, and I've realized that I, if I take all the retreats that I've sat, I've spent more than a year of my life in silent retreats.”

“And I've tried psychedelics, I've tried a bunch of different things when I was younger, and it's great. I think, you know, for some people that gives them tons of value, for me, I'd rather observe reality as it is.”