Tom Schmidt

The people doing the work often don't have time to answer those watching.

You feel pressure when your decisions matter, and people depend on you. It can feel uncomfortable at times, but it's also a privilege. When no one relies on you — when no one expects something from you — you're irrelevant.

The most fragile resource in an AI-abundant world isn't energy or food — it's unoptimized human attention , and this world treats it as sacred.

The next 200 years will look nothing like the last. We will face problems we can’t yet imagine, and possibilities we can barely dream of. We won’t just need answers. We’ll need resilience, flexibility, courage, mastery.”

“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.”

Challenge yourself when life is easy, so you'll be ready when life is hard."