Joseph Jude

The beauty is here on earth. Not in the space. My trip to the space was suppose to be a celebration. Rather it felt like a funeral. Preserve what we have.

You need to know very little to get ahead in life. It is not the how much you know, but how well you know. What you need to know (comes from my experience): • Multi-disciplinary learning • Structured thinking • Structured communication

It is amusing to know even Augustus Caesar longed to retire from work & spend his time in leisure. Our deepest needs have not changed for thousands of years

Finally people are waking up to the horror of TrueCaller

As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. @tferriss (Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week)

TIL: Dropbox can’t sync files with emoji (🥜🌹) in file names. So if you have digital gardens and want to have these emojis in filenames, bad luck

When I grew up I wanted to write fan letters to actors and leaders I admired. In this generation, it is youtubers. Here my 10 year old son writes a fan letter to @Mrwhosetheboss

Do we have less time in this earth or do we waste much of it?

I talked to @naveensamala about role of CTO I broke it down into: Chief: leadership & guidance Technology: all things about technology (choosing tech, governance, audit etc) Officer: get work done If you are in engineering, hope this talk is useful.

Too many bad experiences of embracing Google products (rss reader, G+...) and as you get a hang of it, they are abandoned. LPA - "launch, promote, abandon" seems to be the practice at Google as discussed here 👇

In this interview with @KaranThapar_TTP, @ShashiTharoor lays out a vision and action plan for India & hers youth. Hope he succeeds in becoming INC president.

Hey @airvistara please pass on our thanks to Rishabh in Chandigarh airport. He took responsibility to track us when my forgetful son left an iPad in the flight.

Unless we realise how incompetent we are, we can’t become competent. @timkellernyc

Interesting. Do you think GoI will respond?

Read an interesting book @DieWithZero • Chase memorable life experiences • Give money to your kids when they can best use it • Donate money to charity while you’re still alive

"The primary goal of value investors, then, is to quantify the company’s current value and buy its securities when they can do so cheaply." (Howard Marks, The Most Important Thing)

Even though I "Confirm choices" for cookies at @sciam site, it repeats every time I open a page (including ctrl-click a new link) ;-(

Are there any studies like this in India that explores racial divide?

Participants wrote more—indicating their surprise—in situations where negative events were associated with white individuals and positive events were associated with Black individuals.

If you work like a dumb machine, your job is easily replaced by a dumb machine.

15 top-paying IT certifications for 2022

I remembered "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" as @PeterDiamandis explained the advance in biotech to @robert_glazer. In the future, we could order (3D print) organs 😳

"In life, no person is an island. And this is always true in an organizational setting. Even the smartest and brightest person can only succeed if they learn to collaborate as equals," (Jayaram Easwaran, Inside the C-Suite)

Good discussion 👇with ⁦@kofinas⁩ • young are going into coding rather than governance & ethics • tech forces us to focus on irrelevant news (national & international) rather than relevant news that affect us here & now (local council & city news)

India should colonise the UK. There is never before a better time 😜

"‘Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.’ - Norman Cousins, American journalist and author." Ashwin Sanghi and Dr. Mukesh Batra, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Health

@airvistara’s 24 hours somehow stretches to 3 days. Rescheduled a ticket on 24th. Ticket is still not released even though fully paid. Every call is either put on hold (have been on hold for 20 min once) or told it will be sent in 24 hours.

@airvistara I rescheduled a flight on Saturday (24th September) and have not been issued the new ticket. I have been on calls with your customer support every day for last 3 days. How to get the tickets for the rescheduled flight?

Always enjoy ⁦@EconTalker⁩ podcast. Enjoyable conversations with insights. In this conversation with ⁦@ajjacobs⁩ they talk abt: • meaning of life is searching for meaning of life • don’t be furious; be curious • life is about ?, ->, and !

"To your watch, an hour always means exactly the same thing, regardless of whether you are drinking champagne or being waterboarded. However, to the human brain, the perception of time is more elastic." (Rory Sutherland, Alchemy)

With Almost 4 Million Homeschoolers in the United States, It’s Time to Dismantle “Homeschooling”, by @NWDunlap

"First decide what you want your audience to feel and do once your presentation ends, and then start crafting your message."

This is a good guide for first 90 days in a new job. By @karthi2209

Those who want to dance with tech # Those who want things to work Desires of these two groups are not the same.

Reading the amazing “India’s vaccine growth story” by @Sajjan95 Dr. Sajjan makes a point that vaccines are not only about health. But they are about kids education, women in economy as well. Vaccines are bedrock of developing a economy - both of a family & country.

• Billions spent on customer experiences; relatively none on employee experience • A CEO takes effort to know everything abt a client (including birthday, dog’s name…); may not even know the top 10 best employees in a company Indie makers like @mijustin are changing that.

My friend @namitoberoy_ tracks the trends in Indian legal tech via If you interested consider subscribing to it.

HP electric charger unit on the highway. How often we will see these everywhere in India?

What about compounding leading to wealth inequality?

Latest @BentleyGTCSpeed interviews are great The latest one is with Chip Bell ⭐️ pts: • Curiosity = optimistic treasure hunt • To understand customers you need to be immersed in their world • Don’t chase perfection but the best you can become • Luxury is a state of mind

Protopia = engine of optimism + breaks of pessimism. Future doesn’t happen to us. It happens because of us:

Never thought of this. Thanks Hari. Charity could be in the form of knowledge as charity is using what you have for the welfare of others.

This is an interesting project. Create rich Python apps for the browser using HTML & @pyscript_dev Python is the 2nd best language for every development. May be it will become for front end apps too.

This is a fun & insightful episode. Main points: • atelic & telic activities • life spent maximising a single metric is a path to slavery • Steve Jobs may not have been a great parent. But he made life better for many people

Documentary about journalist @ravishndtv wins an award at Toronto international film festival. You would assume NDTV will have this on its front page. But no. Looks like they haven’t even reported it.

On issues like sports and other areas where there is not much political controversy, Wikipedia is great. But simple factual statements that don’t fit left-wing narratives to be deleted, often within a day, sometimes within minutes.

The irony of one who will help me book million dollar leads can’t find the right person in our company incharge for lead mgmt. I am lost 😳

The role of the first teacher on any subject is less about the actual teaching and more about inspiring a love for learning the subject.

Why David Yach Loves Go I only wish it had a REPL & it was easy to program ML with it. Otherwise I love everything about #golang

When the so called defence experts spread fake news, our confidence on the “experts” is shaken. We then trust no one. Thanks @AbhishekSay for digging the truth.