Tom Schmidt

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.” Steve Jobs

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.

And OpenAI appears to continue to decide its model names by sprinkling the blood of a virgin intern into a bag of Scrabble tiles, praying to get something good, and picking whatever jumble of letters comes out.

"You can't make time go faster or success come sooner. The only thing you can control is the next action."

Focused people eliminate options, not accumulate them.

“Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

Commission teaches lessons in days, and omission teaches lessons in decades

The world would crumble completely absent the quiet, unshowy, unselfish, sustained kindness of people like you.