Tom Schmidt
@neverbeneedy
Tom Schmidt
Thanks for your letter inviting me to join the committee of the Arts and Sciences for Eisenhower.
I must decline, for secret reasons.
Tim Ferriss • STEP 2 — BIG ROCKS AND THE NOTHING - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
T - Take Inventory of Your Natural Gifts
What comes naturally to you? Writing? Storytelling? Visual concepts? Business strategy? Don't focus on what you can't do...focus on what you do naturally.
A - Analyze Your Target Industry
What industry do you want to break into? Music? Film? Fashion? Business? Study what skills are traditionally required... See more
What comes naturally to you? Writing? Storytelling? Visual concepts? Business strategy? Don't focus on what you can't do...focus on what you do naturally.
A - Analyze Your Target Industry
What industry do you want to break into? Music? Film? Fashion? Business? Study what skills are traditionally required... See more
EXPOSED: AI Artist Identity Revealed And What Does This Mean For Us
You get to pick a new career based on one factor: Your job is to do the activity that most frequently puts you into a flow state.
3-2-1: On the secret to self-control, how to live longer, and what holds people back
Maybe if I interviewed them, if I talked to 50 top performers in different fields about what makes them tick, then I’d be able to derive a set of first principles, the physics of how knowledge organization worked. If I turned those interviews into a newsletter, I could also use the newsletter to build the audience for my eventual product. At the... See more
How Tools Shape How We See the World
An imperfect plan executed violently now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
- George S. Patton
- George S. Patton
🎤 The SWIPES Email (Friday, February 27th, 2026)
- Do not stop until you get it right
- If you go to sleep on a win, you will wake up with a loss
- Push through fear and use it as a tailwind
- Drop the ego and do whatever it takes to win
- Find the best people, then empower them
- Keep the main thing the main thing
- Focus on the big picture and be fearless about moving forward
- Opportunity is a strange beast;
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Lock in with a singular focus and do that thing better than anybody else; if you try to be all things for all people, then you are not anything to anybody
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Run a constant triage: what’s the most important thing I could be doing right now, what’s the highest leverage action I could possibly take, and how hard can I jump on that lever
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When you create something that speaks to what your audience is experiencing — whether that's frustration, curiosity, or just feeling like someone gets it — people naturally want to keep watching. There's something about playfulness and whimsy in that, too.