Curators are the influencers.
@Abhishek_Rai included a post early this year, it is still gets views
@orenellenbogen includes my posts & the views go through the roof
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Call them, meet them, email them. Whatever be the form, tell them thanks. For their inspiration, for their belief in you, for encouraging you.
Say it before it is too late.
You are what you are, because of so many. But few played a pivotal role. Don’t wait until after the last minute to convey your thanks. Make a list of people who helped you become who you are.
We have moving eulogies. Why can’t we convey our thanks (and sorry) to our family, friends, and mentors while they are alive? Wouldn’t we make our lives a whole lot better?
Thankfully the coordinator was invited and came for the reunion. I spent an hour with him, sharing and thanking him for all he did to instill confidence in me to speak in public, that too in English.
Before our reunion he passed away. He never shared his medical condition with any of us. We were all shocked.
Every time, I think of him, I regret my decision to wait until the reunion to convey my thanks.
We're planning for 25th year reunion, so I thought I will tell him in person.
Life had other plans.
In the last 5 years, I started speaking in public. Everytime I sit down to prepare, I thought of Basha. How he scribbled. I asked around to know his details to tell him, how much he meant to me. But I wasn't serious.
After graduation, I left to Chennai, Basha left to Saudi Arabia. There were no facebook, whatsapp. So we lost touch. I also didn't speak publicly afterwards.
A year later, a coordinator joined. He uped my game and asked me to speak in daily assemblies. It would be only 4 - 5 sentences. I wrote them in a paper and mostly just read them. I was even afraid to look up and see the crowd.
It went on for months until I got good to manage those debates to certain extent. Later Basha refused to help unless I put in the work first.
We studied in residential college and hence we became good friends.
I wanted to participate, but couldn't because I wasn't fluent in English.
I had a helpful bench-mate. Basha would listen to what I had to say, translate to English, scribble in a note, and even whisper the tough words to pronounce. I'll read from what he wrote.
When I got into Engineering college, I couldn't speak a sentence English. In the first year, our English teacher would conduct debate sessions and he would compell us to speak in English.
Have you said your thank yous? Don't wait until after it is too late.
Here is a story from my life:
#Thanksgiving2020
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RT @vijayanands: Dear #Chennai, passing along a message from folks working with Animals in the city.
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@PanelbearHQ Great. You got a user now. Hope to turn into a customer soon.
Some wierd product manager at @Razorpay thought successful transactions can be notified by email but failed transactions need a webhook to alert the merchant. Why should I run a server to get notification on failed transactions?
RT @jjude: Most careers turn into sales jobs when you get senior enough @sama - This is how I'm settling into sales as a CTO: https://t.co…
@PanelbearHQ Trying this out. Have few questions which are not answered in FAQ:
- can I make my stats public?
- can I export to xls (to analyse on my own; may be just pages is fine)
- right now I can see only for 12 months; will it extend to all time?
@anthonynsimon @PanelbearHQ Came across this post and signed up for @PanelbearHQ. Loved the details. Will wait for further posts.
As Yuvarajaa’s arrest shows, the biggest impediment to innovation are his government’s many departments. Yuvarajaa saw himself as an entrepreneur’ but the Railways press release announcing his arrest described him as a “tout”.
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@vicchow Thank you Victor
RT @vicchow: jjude.com/luck How to get lucky? via Instapaper
I would be happy if AMP dies because of this >
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I like this new todo application. Visualize your todos in the urgent/important matrix: buff.ly/3fqPUo4
#ballertodo
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Hey @kepano, thank you for 40 questions for year & decade. Useful. Using it.
RT @jjude: Startups can be classified into three stages as per their life-cycle. Here I present guidelines on choosing a tech-stack for eac…
It is people who carry the vision through insurmountable challenges.
When companies treat people as potatoes (replaceable), people start behaving as potatoes (not caring about the company).
I am not against processes. Processes bring clarity. Processes help a committed, skilled, and intelligent employee to achieve phenomenal success.
Processes are the pathway to success. But processes themselves can’t and won’t carry us to success.
Processes by themselves are lifeless. It is the people who inject life into processes.
The thinking in the corporate world is to showcase certifications as a measure of maturity. So they pursue CMMi, PCI, and ISO. All certificates mandate processes.
Every company has a human resources department. Do you know what I think when I hear the word "resources"? Resources means replaceable. Like potatoes are replaceable; tomatoes are replaceable https://t.co/uPiTI6hUDr
I didn't know SSD harddisks could wear out, but Apple doc says so:
>iOS can only write to the same region of SSD a limited number of times before the disk wears out. The more writes an app makes, the faster it wears the drive.
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@PovilasKorop Thank you.
@PovilasKorop Thank you @PovilasKorop for the tweet. Where did you read about it?
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Lovely. Hope other metros follows this practice.
@Abhishek_Rai you might find this interesting. x.com/pranesh/status…
@jackerhack QBasic
@fran__sevillano Thank you for sharing this. This is a good equation to memorise and practice
L = D * T
RT @joulee: We often focus too much on whether or not we're right when we should be more focused on whether or not we're influential.
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You can classify products in 3 stages:
Problem-solution fit: Identify a problem & a viable solution.
Product-market fit: Establish product’s market - refining product & identifying the audience
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I am sure I am going to enjoy this book by @aashishc. He is talking abt a process in a marketing book. Love it. https://t.co/nnWJo4x0fs
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