Tom Schmidt

@neverbeneedy

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“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.”

― Winston Churchill

Reads with Ravi • Tweet

Little streams make big rivers. A single minute lost each hour adds up to eight in a day, 2400 minutes in a year - or 40 hours per worker. If a factory employs 20,000 workers and each loses that minute per hour, that is 800,000 hours in a year - the equivalent of 333 years of work.

The Marketing Genius of the Michelin Brothers

“The idea that you can just import infinity Mexicans or Algerians without social cost cannot be defended intellectually in a world where anthropologists have loads of metrics which show that cultural differences are very deep, highly context based, cannot be erased quickly, and are often tied to genetics” – Rudyard Lynch

Drew Waterstreet • This Entire Reality Is a Lie. | Whatifalthist with Rudyard Lynch • Podcast Notes

"The beginning is mostly luck. The end is mostly choices."

3-2-1: On finding the best way to do something, how timing shapes communication, and making unreasonable requests

NeverBeNeedy

“I think people retweet things when they see something that they haven’t figured out how to say yet, but they knew in their head, but it’s just implicit—it hadn’t been made explicit.” – Nivi

📝Novak Djokovic: “I Never Felt I Was Enough”, Does God Exist?, 7 Money Lessons from Jay Shetty, Elon Musk’s Critical Technique, Naval’s Twitter Philosophy, AI Powered Private School & More (Free)

"Results tend to accumulate to the person who enjoys the lifestyle that precedes the result."

3-2-1: How results accumulate, the secret to motivation, and living with a calm persistence

NeverBeNeedy

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

No, You Don’t Get an A for Effort

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

EXPOSED: AI Artist Identity Revealed And What Does This Mean For Us

It’s Friday. And this is your One Minute Blog (OMB) for the weekend.

431 words of brain fuel, delivered faster than Amazon Prime.

Read time: 1 min 52 seconds.

I don’t know about wine, or cars...

...but I am a collector, and (dare I say), a connoisseur of questions.

For years, I’ve collected a list of “better questions”.

Why?

Questions are like... See more