Tom Schmidt

When you can stoke someone’s curiosity, you can guide what they do Curiosity allows you to shape your environment “Curiosity is one of the most

Find the five-second moment. When a day feels worth telling, don't start with the timeline. Write down the exact sentence, look, or realization that c

“Technology is the means by which humanity takes a vacation from survival”

Creative work has 4 phases Seed collecting means noticing anything that interests you, confuses you, or makes you want to know more Experimentation m

focusing your energy on the critical few rather than the trivial many

Every complaint about you is also a commercial for you—after all, nobody bothers to yell at a nobody.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears

People think good decision-making is about being right all the time. It's not. It's about lowering the cost of being wrong and changing your mind. Wh