Stop Reading

A Haiku

You can do homework from now until doomsday, but you will never win fame and fortune unless you also invent big ideas…Big ideas come from the unconscious. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or your idea will be irrelevant. Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process.

—David Ogilvy

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

—René Descartes

Many complain of neglect who never tried to attract regard.

—Samuel Johnson

Above: I guess it comes down to a simple choice. Get busy living or get busy dying.

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Lethargy kills dead.

Get busy to get lucky—

Stop reading. Go act.

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Per my about page, White Noise is a work of experimentation. I view it as a sort of thinking aloud, a stress testing of my nascent ideas. Through it, I hope to sharpen my opinions against the whetstone of other people’s feedback, commentary, and input.

If you want to discuss any of the ideas or musings mentioned above or have any books, papers, or links that you think would be interesting to share on a future edition of White Noise, please reach out to me by replying to this email or following me on Twitter X.

With sincere gratitude,

Tom