Tom Schmidt
@neverbeneedy
Tom Schmidt
Instead of working slightly harder, go insane for two weeks and make something huge.
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The key to storytelling is telling the slow parts fast and the fast parts slo
My Top 10 Writing Lessons from 2025 | How I Write with David Perell • Podcast Notes
It’s a characteristic of human nature that the best qualities, called up quickly in a crisis, are very often the hardest to find in a prosperous calm.
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
1. “If you have to swallow a frog, don’t look at him too long. If you have to swallow two frogs, swallow the big scudder first.”
2. All complaining comes at the expense of improving.
3. “Positive action produces positive attitudes, which produce a positive atmosphere.”
4. Make your plan conform to the territory, not the other way around. Either... See more
2. All complaining comes at the expense of improving.
3. “Positive action produces positive attitudes, which produce a positive atmosphere.”
4. Make your plan conform to the territory, not the other way around. Either... See more
Brain Food: The Odds
There Are No Valid Excuses in the Real World: You either got done what you needed to get done, or you didn’t – no matter what happened in the world, there is no valid excuse because there is no judge
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"Attack where they're weakest, not strongest."
Genius Business • Tweet
• The best way to criticize something is to make something better.
Kevin Kelly • 101 Additional Advices
- “Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.” — Alejandro Jodorowsky
- “We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.” — Carlos Castaneda
- “I recommend the freedom that comes from asking: Compared to what?” — Gloria Steinem
Brief life advice/Codenames/The Scale of Life
– Ed Latimore