Tom Schmidt

it feels like an angel has snatched you out of the maw of Hades.

Strong introductions followed a rhythm: the spark of the idea on top, stakes established within 150 words, a quick zoom out, then a thesis pointing forward. Abstraction worked best when grounded in detail. Endings didn’t recap what had come before; they reframed.

When in doubt - don’t think, move.

“Action produces information.”

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

"When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity."

Prompting is secondary; the real skill is slashing, annotating, and rewriting the version of you the AI proposes until the roadmap sounds like a life you’d want to live.

t: The most important information should go up front, with clear frameworks about how to make good decisions in that area, and then all the details after

“The vital few need to be separated from the trivial many so that we can direct our attention where it will do the most good. ”

Overthinking is underdoing with better vocabulary.