Tom Schmidt

June 17, 2025 | Read Online 5 Tweet Tuesday Out of 500M daily tweets, only 5 deserve your attention. Here’s this week’s starting lineup: #1 Wealth Director @wealth_director Before you play the game, study the winners. If you don’t want their life, don’t play their game. 5:00 PM • Jun 14, 2025 6.95K Likes 1.34K Retweets 83 Replies I quit poker... See more

Rules about overthinking: You can’t think your way out of a feeling problem, overthinking is under-feeling, your brain ruminates because it hates uncertainty so much that it would rather fantasize a catastrophe than deal with uncertainty, whatever you fear creates the boundaries of your freedom, the more you think about yourself the harder it is to... See more

I'm a big fan of the "GPS Theory" when you miss a turn, your GPS doesn't judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds another way forward. Life works like that too. You'll make mistakes, but your destination doesn't vanish. The route just changes.

Problems aren't obstacles to opportunity, they ARE the opportunity.

A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are.

People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever reaching... See more

Start with a problem I was having, use personal stakes to frame insight, surface a bigger cultural pattern, land on a sticky phrase. If my piece is missing one of these components, my editor will call it out.

1. What are 3 quirky, unusual analogies to explain [your phenomenon of interest] . See my ChatGPT example prompt and result .


2. Propose 5 questions a reader would be surprised to find answered on [your topic X] . See my ChatGPT example .


3. Who are 7 surprising, odd historical figures to cite as examples of [X]. For each individual include a detailed

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Nobody cares about your product. In fact, your product is an obstacle. It has a cost, it takes time to learn, it is a necessary evil on the way to them getting what they really want .