Tom Schmidt

Self-pity feels like medicine and works like poison.

The people who've known you longest still hold the oldest version of you. Half the pull of a new city isn't the scenery, it's that nobody there has de

“It’s a process of discovery, not simply expressing a vision that you have... I think we make a mistake when we hand that over to machines”

His formula for inventing mass media: write it simply enough that anyone can read it, write it colorfully enough that nobody forgets it

focusing your energy on the critical few rather than the trivial many

Every complaint about you is also a commercial for you—after all, nobody bothers to yell at a nobody.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears

People think good decision-making is about being right all the time. It's not. It's about lowering the cost of being wrong and changing your mind. Wh