Joseph Jude

'Mentor' is both a verb and a noun. It is simultaneously something you do and something you are

As you grow in your career, one skill that will make you stand out is "Structured Communication" A thread on what structured communication is and how you can develop it. 🧵

Mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear

Luck is just the flip-side of risk. If so, then we can classify luck and deal with it as we deal with risk. Don't you agree? James Austin took the pain to classify luck. Listen to this episode to learn the types of luck and how you can prepare for them:

Learning to think for yourself is the best investment you can make.

Humiliation is not the same thing as correction: One attacks the person; the other attacks the problem.

You can learn great lessons from the great leaders of the world. But you can learn as many great lessons from the quiet people around you too. Find them, observe them, connect with them, ask them questions.

@TheKrPrince I see many tweets abt learning as a developer. Love that attitude. Hope this post of mine is useful in that aspect

Before you start any project, ask these 5 questions to prepare for the project: • What is expected of me? • What is the priority? • What is the timeline? • What is needed? • What can go wrong? It will save you ton of pain later.

I have been homeschooling my 2 boys (13 & 10 yrs) for the last 6 months. From that limited experience, here is how I would restructure education for kids.

If you want to be successful in your career, learn to speak the language of your clients. Don't expect them to learn the jargons of your domain.

A comprehensive analysis of LIC IPO. Thanks @SejalSud. My opinions: • Their EPS is lower compared to others in the market • Not sure we can take the covid period as a baseline for growth • Agent's network may not be a moat for growth in the online world

Don't compare your first page with someone else's 600th page. Start small, but start. When I got into engineering college, I didn't even know what a flowchart was. After 20 years, today I'm a CTO. Listen how I got started on this path:

Learning should be of two layers: • core layer - what you want to be an expert in • support layer - skills that help you learn and practice the skills in core layer

Pay it forward only the good things

How to build a successful newsletter? I listened to "Lessons From a $1M/yr Newsletter", a discussion between @nathanbarry & @fortelabs . Some insights I gathered 🧵

Trying @logseq again. Seems the speed has increased multi-fold in the recent months. Here is how the index looks like now.

Next wave of innovation has to be at vernacular languages level. AI ML audio / video Challenging but profitable

As businesses become digital, it is not only necessary to ensure that customers have good experience during pre-buying (as they browse through product catalogue) and buying (shopping cart) but post-buying (customer service) as well

The lesson I learned about humility is this: Don't talk about what you have or what you are. But trumpet about what you do. Listen to this episode to know how you can get started on trumpeting about yourself:

Common pitfalls in transformations - failure to set high aspirations - failure to attach a compelling why - failure of poor execution - failure to sustain the achieved impact

Your car's windshield is larger than your rearview mirror. It has to be. It is important to have the clearest view of where you are going rather than what you've left behind.

What is your view of the future? Say for next 3 years?

Everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you - Steve Jobs So don't wait for approvals from others. Get going doing.

Have you changed your mind lately? About what?

Each success in life–wealth, networking– seems chaotic, complex, and confusing. You get lost often and feel that your efforts are ineffective. You can advance faster if you discover the structure of success.

Interesting Principles, by @prla here Hope @prla writes each of these principles in detail Since Paulo asks at the end, here are my principles:

Smart people ask for help

Actors & musicians work together to make movies mostly as freelancers. Directors, actors, and musicians are not employed by companies. Sports players are no different. Kholi and Dhoni play for franchises, but they are not employees. Will we see the same model in every job?

Goran Ivanišević was a wild card entry to 2001 Wimbledon. Rafa had a knee surgery six months prior to Australian opens. Both had little chance of winning the grand slams. They ended up winning. Don't underestimate human will.

We cannot pursue happiness. Happiness comes from doing things. Especially with those we love.

This is an important factor to consider as we embrace remote working. Know when to take a break. Take a break before you burn out.

Every Sunday, I review the progress I made in the previous week and plan the coming week. So, I get 52 chances to refine my priorities and increase my chances of succeeding in my goals.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. –Charles Darwin Reason why most Indians waste other's time is because we don't value other's life

Every day, commit small acts of generosity to your futureself @alearningaday

If you are not progressing on a goal, possible reasons: • you don't have the skill • you are not committed • you don't have time Or may be, you just have to abandon it and move on.

I do many things, but nothing gets me high like coding. As a CTO, I don't code officially. But I try to code whenever possible to keep myself attached to my favorite activity in life. A snippet I coded today to fetch twitter stats.

Every week, ask these questions and answer them as well as you can: * what was the peak win? * what are the wins and what led to those wins? * what are the lessons learned? Review every week. You'll be lot better in a year.

We might complete the todo list and still not get the results we need

Thinking problem is out there is the problem. As Steven Covey says, take responsibility. You'll have a happy life.

“Only the paranoid survive,” Andy Grove, former CEO and Chairman of Intel, said. Why? The paranoid attracts luck by planning for things that could go wrong and preventing or minimizing the damage.

All good things come to those who wait. BUT Time and tide wait for no man. Wise men think alike. BUT Fools seldom differ. Every good idea and it's opposite are true. You need a mentor to contextualize an idea for you.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.- Seneca

School teaches you obedience, not how to learn. Do you agree?

Last week, I presented a workshop on Low Code / No Code at @ISBedu Mohali for @nasscom members. NASSCOM planted a tree as a reward. And I can track its growth. Going to look at my baby tree often ;-) Thank you NASSCOM

Best time to tweet: • Early mornings (2 - 3 am) are the best time for clicks • Noon to 1:00 p.m. is the most popular time to tweet • Most retweets & favorites occur between 8:00 p.m. & 11:00 p.m., peaking between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m.

When new tech comes out, we do the old job on the new tech without without changes to the job. When the movie cameras came out actors continued to act on the stages. When the Internet came, we scanned the forms and put it out on the net Change in process comes much later.

Python, PHP, & Javascript are popular software languages not because they are performant or scalable. They are popular because • they get the job done. • there are ton of tools around them. • the developers experience is far superior

Tools are your employees.

There is dignity in our difference - talents, skills, background, race, religion... We should leverage our difference for the benefit of every one.