Tom Schmidt

“I think the most valuable thing that AI is going to do, when you ask it questions and it comes up with the answers, assuming those answers are accurate and cross-correlated and double-checked, [is going to be when] they actually say, 'Here are the five questions you didn’t ask

Philosopher Baltasar Gracián on giving advice:

“When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.”

let me ping you when the dust settles

People think discipline is about saying no to stuff you want, but it's actually just remembering what you really want.

On change: We unconsciously adopt narratives about the shape of our lives from previous generations, movie plots, and our peers. These “scripts” are often useful but tend to outlive their purpose as we age. Much of life is about figuring out which stories to discard as you age.

In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.

before their stories have been injected with narrative collagen to smooth out the unsightly wrinkles

Charles Miller on balance:

"Spend a handful of hours a day going fast. Crush a gym session. Do deep work on a project you care about. Spend the rest of the day going slow. Take walks. Read books. Get a long dinner with friends. Either way, avoid the anxious middle where you never truly relax or truly move forward."

“What you build today will still exist a year from now, and what you feel won’t.”