Tom Schmidt

“I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another. And that is I say

The discussion in a brain trust is always about the topic, never about who's right New people in the room want to demonstrate capability. If their ide

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

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