I use Twitter as a commonplace note: https://t.co/vPr6DeA0d4 CTO In Sales • Homeschooling dad Building @siteaudittools & @thoughttonote
Hey @craigburgess, I listened to “Is there anything called work life balance” - As you say, there is no magic in the middle. I have a slight twist to the idea: Knowing we can’t hv a balance, why don’t we have intentional imbalance
Hey @craigburgess, the link to your site in the podcast is wrong. It links to https://getdoingthings.test/ rather than .com I listen on overcast: . Look at the website link. You may want to correct it.
During the morning jogging, listened to @craigburgess @arvidkahl, & @jamierusso. Here are three takeaways: • Brand is what you do • Be consistent • Don’t chase others Fun session. Enjoyed it. Listen here: Details: 👇
Higher Education Is Failing Our Kids #FridayForward via @robert_glazer
Last year covid was distant. This year it is much real. I lost a friend to covid. At least 10 friends are infected and isolated. Anyone I talk to has an infected relative. There is darkness all around. It hurts. Hurts mentally and psychologically. Hard to focus.
Contex > Content Beware of Cloning Best Practices:
I believe in luck. I hope by the end of this thread you too will share my belief. Before we talk about luck, let us talk about insurance. I am sure you have some insurance. May be car insurance or home insurance or life insurance. There are so many insurances now-a-days. 👇
Should you specialise or build range of skills? When I started my career 25 years back, I didn't have a clear answer. I experiemented. I guess I found an answer. I'm going to let Jack Ma and @sivers give that answer 🧵
Luck is just flip-side of risk. Do you agree? If so, we can manage luck as we manage risk. Isn't it? Listen to today's episode:
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"Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day." - Abraham Maslow
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” —John Quincy Adams
“Every artist was first an amateur.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Remember this whenever you launch something. Never compare your 6th day with someone else's 600th day
Have you paused to think what your ideal job would be? Only when you define it, you'll strive to get it. 🧵
10 types of burn-out. Identify what you suffer from:
Writing tools I learned from The Economist #writing
“Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.” — Nido Qubein
Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS | The Record by Recorded Future
What is a great conversation? A conversation is great, if: - you say things you never knew you knew - you hear words that find a place in you that you thought you lost - it brings you to a different plane - it continues to sing in your mind John O'Donohue
“You will be the same person in five years as you are today, except for the people you meet and the books you read.” — John Wooden I have increased my luck factor by books I read and people I met.
Your probability of success is proportional to the number of people that want you to succeed - @dharmesh How to reach such people and keep that number high? That is where networking comes in. My knowledge of networking comes primarily from "Networking like a Pro" book 🧵
“If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I’ve gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.” — Tom Peters If you read one good book a year that changes your mental model, you'll grow more than most.
When you start to study a field, it seems like you have to memorize a zillion things. You don’t. What you need is to identify the core principles that govern the field. The million things you thought you had to memorize are combinations of the core principles. - John Reed
"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees." — Arthur Schopenhauer I look for patterns which are happening in small portion in different geographies, domains and think how it will affect me
You’ve got to make your deposits before you can make a withdrawal - Steve Schwartzman, chairman and CEO, Blackstone Group True in many areas of life - Networking, Wealth building, Career making ...
Whenver I want to launch a new consulting service or a webinar or a newsletter, I use a framework to think through. It goes like this: P - problem A - Audience S - Scenarios T - Transformation O - Offer R - Reward
Protocols Not Platforms
What’s your opinion on UID being digital id for India? @jackerhack (I got this thread from your feed. I couldn’t reply only to you so asking like this)
How to build trust as we work in remote? Fine piece by @vibhor86
"People who excel tend to obsess over the details. People who struggle also tend to obsess over the details. The difference is what details they focus on. Minutiae vs polish. Most things don’t matter—but when it does, you want to get the details right." –@JamesClear
Hey @rajasegar_c, just want to say I'm enjoying all the posts and code you are sharing with @htmx_org . Thanks for doing it.
Luck = Preparation + Opportunity How can you prepare if you don't know what is coming? Want to turn lucky? Think about future. In today's Gravitas WINS show, I'll show a framework you can use to think about the future. Hope you'll join:
Latest issue of blackbook is a thoughtful read: I'm always interested in lessons from history. In this issue @vijayanands shares lessons from East India company & the Chola empire.
Leaders are grappling with new challenges: - hiring, retaining a remote workforce, - running rewards and recognition programs - assimilating new employees into teams Interesting series from @vibhor86 on challenges of remote working from mgmt pov:
@workflowy has stayed on my homescreen for years. It is getting better and better. Now you can add images to your notes. One use case not covered in this post: - transfer photos between android and mac ;-)
This is the first (and probably only) writing of PB Mehta for which I don't have to run to dictionary.
It was fun to catch up VV community with @IcebreakerVideo. Nice talking to @jackbutcher @MariusCern ...Thanks Jack for setting this up
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. ― Hermann Hesse
Most of us reach peak of our career and fade away. Successful people though parlay. They keep growing instead of fading. This is just one of the smartcuts. There are others which I'll share in today's Gravitas WINS show. See you at 7 pm IST today:
Racism in the UK media > Meghan Markle And Prince Harry UK Royal Reporters Coverage Compared To Kate Middleton And Prince William
When asked what bad advice he’s heard floating around the industry, author Tom Peters answered: They say: “Think big! Have a compelling vision!” I say: Think small. Do something super cool by the end of the day! Excellence is the next five minutes or nothing at all"
Time it takes to brute force your password
The gods too are fond of a joke.- Aristotle Make them laugh. They will remember you for life.
Almost 10 years back I read a book-Maverick by @ricardosemler. It had an interesting concept-autonomus teams. While interesting, I never understood how it can be implemented in companies. Today I took holocracy workshop by @CalmAchiever. I'm starting to understand it is possible
There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.- C. A. R. Hoare
Wealth is being in a position to do more of the things that you LOVE doing, and none or less of the the things that you HAVE to. Are you wealthy or just rich?
Do you think networking is just handing over business cards? Animation video created by my 12 year old son. Amazed at his creativity and the availability of tools that enable such creativity. Do you have an idea for his next animation video?
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day. - Abraham Maslow Irony of life: If you chase safety, you lose safety.
A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stories and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer’s decision to choose one product or service over another. - Seth Godin Don't focus on creating a brand. Focus on creating memories, stories, and relations.
Unlike most of the Indian populace, I was no fan of Cricket. It looked so dull. That was until @ipl. Suddenly it got interesting. Not only the sports, but mixing of corporate world into sports was interesting too. Here are some lessons I learned 🧵
