Joseph Jude

Peter Drucker is a proponent of "making a lead decision that removes hundreds of other decisions." You can follow this principle in your life too. Listen to this episode to know examples of "lead decisions" in your daily lives:

Every Indian is taxed. But only one language promoted. Why?

I am experimenting with visual essays. Here is a thread of all my visual essays

All profitable ideas have 3 characteristics: - it has to be correct - it has to be non-obvious - you have to hold it for long Do you agree?

Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them

Very different thinking in building a product. Congrats @onurozer from a fellow @megamaker

We need wisdom and discipline in life. Wisdom is choosing to do now what you'll be happy with later on. That requires discipline

This article is just singing to choir and all in the choir patting themselves how great they are.

If a minority would have written such article it would have been an excellent take down. Now it it is just a mouthpiece of govt speaking. Plus if the article would have dealt with number of threats constantly posed against minorities, it would have been a fair article. Alas.

First bullets. Then cannonballs. CNN fired a $300 million cannonball at a streaming service & it failed to hit the target. CNN+, as it was called, shutdown just after a month of its launch. In 1985, Coke fired a cannonball. It tried changing it's 99 year taste & it failed

Know what you have to obsess over

Our mind can store enormous amount of data. But it can hold only few ideas on the top of the mind. Our mind will drift to those ideas when we take a walk or a shower. Listen to this episode to know how you can keep top thing in mind:

The idea of "fire bullets, then cannonball" was developed by Jim Collins. Cannonball = concentrating resources into a big bet without validating the underlying need Bullets = low-cost, low-risk, low-distraction experiments Fire bullets Calibrate Fire cannonball

Life at once runs on two tracks. At any given moment in life there are usually blessings, but also battles to face.

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Make 1 decision instead of thousands, with examples here:

“What could possibly go wrong?” is the first question I ask myself every time I am part of a project

Tom Hanks is a fine actor. But may not be a safe companion 🤣😉

There are tremendous lessons to learn from the great people of the world, but there are just as many to be learned from the quiet people around us. - John Wooden Want a relatable, inspiring life? Don't look far in distance. Look around you.

Put on your own oxygen mask before helping others. • do you have a developmental plan for yourself? • do you take care of your mental, physical, and spiritual health?

If you analyze the countless challenges that leaders face, you will arrive at two primary challenges. Listen to this short episode to know those two primary challenges:

Paradoxical day of a CTO In the morning deliver a speech in IT summit about web3, metaverse, blockchain. 😀 Come to office to deal with a member "accidentally" deploying phpinfo.php onto production 😱

I also argue here we need to learn statistics and probability more than calculus.

This is a fine interview on leadership with ex-chairman of SBI & current CEO of Salesforce India:

Do you have a self-development plan? It is a good time now to pause and think of a development plan for yourself.

My learning framework is: • consume • produce • engage I detail it here:

As a CEO, do you have guts to go to your competitors and hire. Mind you, Steve Jobs hired from Xerox and Compaq.

I'm encouraging all engineers to soak on arts / literature for this reason.

Customer satisfaction can't be copied. Everything else can be copied.

Everything you do in your company is a journey towards increasing capital and talent.

When we think of building our career, we implicitly link it to job, contract, and company. Can we build a career without really tied with a job contract? There is a new trend on the rise. Know it to take advantage of it:

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it- Henry David Thoreau

As @SejalSud says: courage. Or self-confidence. I can figure things out is a huge plus. Nothing can beat that attitude.

Just today @rishabh_grg and I were discussing this. • problem & the way it is solved • team dynamics • marketing Everything else can be fixed with money & time if these are in place. If these are not in place it is a downhill for that startup

Three factors about the future: • predict it • shape it • manage it If you don't shape your future, someone else will.

I hope there won't be coercive steps to pay.

Every music is made of 7 chords. Every business plan is made of 10 numbers. Are everyone rip-off? Unless @logseq copied code, this comment of Roam developer shows only frustration and anger at a competition product.

People > Processes People impute life into processes. Processes by themselves are lifeless.

When companies consider people as replaceable commodities, that company starts to go down.

Acquiring certifications and degrees don't help in becoming successful. What determines succes? • your attitutde • ability learn • ability to network with people

One of my photographer friend has a trick to avoid this. He asks everyone to close their eyes and asks them to open their eyes after 1, 2, 3. He then waits for a second and clicks the pic. Worked every single time.

If we don't know what an ideal job is, how will we ever land on it? In this short episode, I define what factors contribute to ideal job: Reply back with your questions and comments #careers

I learned how to be a better leader from one of the best parenting books. Today at 7 pm (IST), we will review first part of the book at @GravitasWins book club. I promise that would be the finest 1 hour of the week. Please register and join us here:

There are tremendous lessons to learn from the great people of the world, but there are just as many to be learned from the quiet people around us. - John Wooden Want a relatable, inspiring life? Don't look far in distance. Look around you.

Lord grant me serenity to focus on the essentials, courage to say no to distractions and wisdom to know the difference.

Document your decisions. • Context • Options considered • Reason for selecting the choice you selected • Expected results Analyse the results after six months. Do this over and over, your decision making process will improve.

Use the immediate to prepare for the future

We all crave for: • freedom • happiness • peace • love You can't get them without first giving it to someone else.

Both Apple and Amazon are successful technology companies. Yet their operating philosophies differ. Based on their operating philosophies, you can frame a mental model to build your career. Here this short episode to know how:

If your principles are solid, you can approach any opportunity with confidence