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Tom White was diagnosed with Tourette's at the age of 9, Tom learned to face adversity and embrace the curse and the gift. 

Tom is the author of a newsletter called White Noise. He runs a writing consultancy and is also an angel investor.

Tom is a deep thinker and a man of many quotes—from CS Lewis to Jim Carey, E.L. Doctorow, E.O. Wilson, J. R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Richard Feynman, and many more.

We talked about

• Why life is more like golf than tennis
• Goodhart’s Law: “If a metric becomes the measure, it ceases to be a good metric”
• How incentives run the world
• how everything is an experiment, a curse, and a blessing
• the lasting impact of his grandfather, a veteran of D-Day and World War II
• how growth and comfort cannot coexist
• how happiness is a byproduct, not something you aim for

You may or may not agree with everything Tom shares, but I bet you will walk away more aware of the gifts you have been bestowed and more peaceful about wherever you’re in life.

I’ll leave you with a quote from Tom’s grandfather: “Run hard, and shoot from the top.”

Enjoy the episode.