Systems you should never build yourself when bootstrapping a SaaS: Authentication, Payment, Invoices, Tax Calculations.
Bite the bullet and pay others, it will save you so much pain in the end.
Wrap them in abstractions to change them later. But never build them yourself.
OK. V4 (and last iteration on Twitter). Pretty happy with this except the leaves are overlapping and necessarily incomplete. Thank you for the help https://t.co/8h0zg0Cp01
@IndianLion82 @rahulpandita @MORTHIndia @FBDPolice @gurgaonpolice @police_haryana @cmohry Kindly refer to para 3 (vii) of SOP issued by @MORTHIndia :
Electronic copy of all docs like DL, RC, Insurance, Tax, Permit, PUC etc updated on DigiLocker or mParivahan are valid
Read the full SOP here : https://t.co/B58ttdyka8
@FBDPolice
@gurgaonpolice
.@police_haryana
2 - As a marketer, your biggest contribution to your brand (unless you are Starbucks or Walmart, where loyalty is important) is to generate as many new customers as is humanly possible at the lowest possible cost. That's how you protect the future of your brand.
My picks: https://t.co/bIdX5OWyKG
Question for 2020
In what way does my own faith and life embody & give a credible alternative to the things I criticize & condemn in others?
The gap between what I criticize in others & fail to embody myself is the root of hypocrisy.
Criticism is cheap, discipleship is costly.
1. Online entrepreneurship has the potential to do more good for the nuclear family than nearly any other workplace change we’ve seen in the last 100 years.
2019 review:
- Got engaged
- Published 2 books (https://t.co/hU2oj6Po90)
- Wrote 6 papers (https://t.co/qrc1PJyEtF)
- Tweeted 50+ ideas (https://t.co/P1yDMrp7aS)
- Produced 1 online course (https://t.co/SjHtGOE17U)
- Taught, consulted, hold live workshops
- Filed 1 patent
Being an expert isn’t about knowing the answers. It is about knowing a process to find the answers.
My rule for learning: Start with usefulness, not with theory.
• If you want to learn biology, start with identifying edible plants — not homeostasis.
• If you want to learn to draw, start with copying famous paintings — not color theory.
Practice first.
Theory second.
Off the top of my head, my favorite accounts in my timeline right now are:
@eriktorenberg
@datarade
@david_perell
@justinkan
@TaylorPearsonMe
@wolfejosh
@harrydry
@Kpaxs
@garrytan
Combination of the relentlessly resourceful & curious
Anyone else you suggest?
Blaming others for one's failure is a form of failure.
Crediting others for your success is a form of success
Picture this: Cloud College
Classrooms = media studios
Study rooms = Zoom rooms
Homework = blog posts
Lectures = YouTube videos
Labs = maker spaces
Sports teams = creative guilds
Scholarships = crowdfunding campaigns
Career counselors = business advisors
It would be lit https://t.co/sGq1W5U2X0
Ultimately, my secular mindset gave way to a life-transforming faith. I still have doubts, but even if Jesus is the most successful hoax in the history of the world, my life is much better for it. And, all civilization will eventually burn up in wholly unrecognizable heat death.
If your actions this year didn't bring the results you sought, it might be because you weren’t aware of some implicit rules you kept breaking.
My book https://t.co/pzokCSet5D describes 100 implicit rules which might have been holding you back so far.
Below, a reader's review. https://t.co/7KAkpScTvT
You won’t have inner peace until you give up your war against the world.
"If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price." - Rudyard Kipling
Adding:
- Learn faster than others
- Ability & willingness to fail publicly
- Ability & willingness to look like an idiot https://t.co/EyFobcFj5j
The Durants, widely regarded as the 20th century's best historians, studied Jesus and concluded: https://t.co/XFzS4WnP05
Working with a friend can cost both a business and a friendship.
It can work if the friendship came after working together.
It won’t work if the friendship came before and competence is merely assumed.
The solution isn’t a pill, it’s a process.
This entire thread is golden. Answers a question I asked in public a while back as to why startups in India hire massive numbers compared to some of the successful startups we know of. Now I know the answer - technical debt. https://t.co/V0zzTXw50T
@shl @natalienagele is top of mind
Some others:
- @peldi
- @nickfrancis
- @rauchg
- @clairejlew
- @wesbos
- @ajlkn
- @pippinsplugins
- @iamashley
- @mijustin
- @nelsonjoyce
- @PyImageSearch
- @bryceadams
- @mhmazur
Asking questions > arguing.
Understanding > winning.
Observing > judging.
"Data-mining" vs. "Data is mine"
Important thread below by @chrissyfarr 👇
#healthdata #digitalhealth https://t.co/epnDXjuoEK
I'd urge anyone who has engaged with literature in any language, in any capacity, to read Olga Tokarczuk's Nobel lecture slowly and carefully. She is full of light, a writer to do us all proud (h/t @jennybhatt) https://t.co/lwQVyiRKjr
Quote of the Day: "I want to live my life, not record it." - Jackie Kennedy
I have put together a short "hub" of resources on Systems Thinking. At the moment it contains a short collection of websites, book recommendations, videos and communities. Happy to expand, so please drop feedback there or here! https://t.co/K8eCNju8Wb… #systemsthinking https://t.co/3ZcDDMhZ5o
3 Dimensions of a #Guru
Competence born out of knowledge.
Wisdom born out of humility.
Humanity born out of compassion.
Useful: “Firefox Replay records your application, so you can track bugs down faster and understand your code better.” https://t.co/T3PnRTRBDA https://t.co/oYpOuuPNp5
I present my Otis Elevator thesis to startups & legacy company clients for decades.
I have 1000s of reports—but the 300 page Otis report seems to stun folks.
Right in front of them is a timeless, profitable legacy company that has innovated—since 1852.
It was invisible before. https://t.co/CHqs4hHLV3
Observations and experience lead to ideas. Ideas lead to hypothesis and a validated hypothesis becomes a model.
Some of @nntaleb's best quotes:
1) "Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.”
2) “The more data you get, the less you know what’s going on.”
3) "In a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant."
Take it from me law with death penalty alone won't help much.
Rape can be controlled only if we can ensure professional investigation & prosecution that result into conviction in every case.
It is not severity but certainity of punishment that deters crime.
#Priyanka
#Hyderabad https://t.co/MJJ8ej0MaU
Trust is not a function of the quantity of the time we spend with someone. It is a function of the quality of the experience they have with us.
Want Better Forecasting? Silence the Noise - introduction to the Bias, Information, Noise (BIN) Model of Forecasting. https://t.co/xkjOfywThJ
They want to punish you for your speech because they can’t punish you for your thoughts.
In my speech I mentioned that if #MarkZuckerberg and tech CEOs allow a foreign power to interfere in our election (again) or facilitate another genocide (like Myanmar), perhaps they should be sent to jail. My full speech here: https://t.co/HDrjK9a8Rj
I've installed NSDL app on my phone. Once in a month, check and verify details for both me and my wife. Also go through CAS in detail.
CAS statements are regularly stored in an email folder.
Thought you may find the above useful.
A momentary challenge to your viewer's expectations, followed by a flash of realisation, excites that part of the brain where engagement happens. #ThursdayThoughts for visual #marketers https://t.co/jy7mnYu8a4 https://t.co/zZaZ9AM2Rp
"If you don't take time for your wellness, you will be forced to take time for your illness."
@Olacabs @ola_supports My account was blocked two days back. Created a ticket 201945122. Not heard back at all. Either unblock or refund the amount in the wallet. I don't think I was cancelling often or any other reasons listed in account blocking FAQ
Three metrics at @washingtonpost : how fast are you moving? No sacred cows. Disagree but commit.
@chehayebk Arab Socialists are dangerously blind.
Yugoslavia tried to do a TOP DOWN Kumbaya, forcing the mixing of people of different religions (same language, tiny difference in accents) & blew up.
Switzerland went BOTTOM UP & is the most successful country in history. https://t.co/FguMkFraNl
“How are you complicit in creating the conditions of your life that you say you don’t want?”
-@jerrycolonna
Why are these companies not celebrated enough? https://t.co/IhHLLNJmdq
Indian origin Women CxOs in top US cos: Amrita Ahuja CFO @Square, Padmasree Warrior ex CTO @motorola & @Cisco, Neha Narkhade CTO @confluentinc, Anjali Sud CEO @Vimeo, Jayshree Ullal CEO @AristaNetworks, Dhivya Suryadevara CFO at @GM, Sukhwinder Cassidy President @StubHub. More? https://t.co/FnbYbn8PJq
My crazy beliefs about writing:
1. Writing fast is just as important as writing well.
2. Good writing isn’t about good syntax or grammar. Having interesting ideas is much more important.
3. If you can’t write, don’t read a writing book. Build a note-taking system first.
Today, we’re announcing Angel Funds: a new way for individuals and institutions to raise and run a venture fund. https://t.co/ORbeBZGSED
Golden words of Malcolm X.
"If you stick a knife in my back 9 inch and pull it out 6 inch, there's no progress.If you pull it all the way out,that's not progress.The progress is healing the wound that the blow made.They won’t even admit the knife is there"
#AYODHYAVERDICT https://t.co/ork4N4j0HT