Tom Schmidt

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

― Winston Churchill

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 person who finishes one race beats the person who starts a hundred and never finishes.

let me ping you when the dust settles

• There should be at least one thing in your life you enjoy despite being no good at it. This is your play time, which will keep you young. Never apologize for it.

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You’re reading the August 21, 2025 edition of Wonder Tools , a weekly newsletter to help you discover what’s most useful. I’m Jeremy Caplan , and this week I’m excited to be meeting the new graduate class of 2026 at the City University of New York’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, where I teach.... See more

• Forget diamonds; explore the worlds hidden in pebbles. Seek the things that everyone else ignores.

Most of the time, “What should I do with my life?” is a terrible question. “What should I do with this tennis serve?” “What should I do with this line at Starbucks?” “What should I do with this traffic jam?” “How should I respond to the anger I feel welling up in my chest?” These are better questions. Excellence is the next five minutes,

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