Against The Gods
Buffett & Marks letters (earlier the better)
The Systems Bible
Poor Charlie's Almanack
7 Powers
A Short History of Financial Euphoria
Ecclesiastes
Humility by Mahaney
Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) https://t.co/olnDGDIZy5
If you want to be a successful creator or run a successful business:
Learn to write.
Learn to publish.
Learn to distribute.
Learn to promote.
Being a good artist is not enough, you need to sell your art too. https://t.co/e0QNcevyLM
Three predictions:
1) In-home air filters are going to become the next consumer craze.
2) Political science is going to shift its focus away from the nation state and towards city governance.
3) Facebook will still own the dominant social network in the year 2030.
Real world internships could fundamentally change High School in the US. Then students could make more informed decisions about what to study in college & what working is like.
Most teachers & professors haven’t worked in the types of jobs their students will eventually have.
How to write a landing page title:
Your best guess of where you want to end up is infinitely more useful than no thought at all.
An airline sells tickets from London to New York. Do they decide where they’re going mid flight?
A good plan: Fly to New York.
An OK plan: Fly West.
A bad plan: Fly.
If you have an @IRCTCofficial account check if your account has been pwned. The leak included emails, usernames and passwords in plaintext. Change password now
https://t.co/WIqjAZEWrl
More details
https://t.co/nO9wXdTEa4
Peter Thiel’s philosophy in three words: Be anti-mimetic.
Here’s the secret... the Internet lets you curate your environment, so you can be hyper-mimetic towards people who are anti-mimetic.
Copy the people who don’t copy people.
https://t.co/VHg2zZD1q4
What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?
@made_in_cosmos @paulg Outcome over ego.
@paulg Your rate-of-learning is a better proxy for how successful you will be than your current compensation because it’s a leading rather than lagging indicator. https://t.co/w678HLoJE6
You become more attractive when you don’t need love.
You become richer when you don’t need money.
You become more convincing when you don’t need to impress.
When you don’t need it,
you make clearer, better decisions.
I love @ShaneAParrish and @farnamstreet’s 5 principles. This video reminded me of the first principle: direction over speed.
Highly encourage you to read the blog. 1 and 4 (principles outlive tactics) really resonate: https://t.co/5SpKVvlOR4 https://t.co/j4NlhdgpWj
TWEET THREAD ON BEST YOUTUBE CHANNELS
On Personal Finance & Stock Investing, covering different school of thoughts on investing by various Indian and International Investors. Had shared this earlier, as a word file, sharing now as a thread.
(1/n)
People who judge works made in the past according to present-day moral standards are like Americans who travel abroad and expect everyone they meet to understand English.
"Strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it." Loved meeting @ericpartaker & @damekellyholmes @PendulumSummit 2020 #PendulumSummit https://t.co/zLcY0TZ2kx
How To Be Successful
(At Your Career, Twitter Edition)
Trump’s two notable foreign policy wins: Massive escalation vs much weaker countries.
Threatening Mexico with economic catastrophe if they didn’t tighten their border. They did.
Military decapitation of Iran after strike against US base and embassy. Virtually no retaliation.
More specific content = better tweets.
It’s always tempting to go meta, but it pays to go micro.
What ideas are you thinking about? What’s your unique take on them?
That’s what Twitter is for.
If you follow me you hear this a lot:
Jim Rohn said everyone experiences two pains in life; the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces; regret weighs tons
Discipline is easy compared to the consequences of inaction
A trend I’ve observed over the past few years: startups owning the top non-paid Google result for “how to …” or “what is…” https://t.co/CvtNmHTRzg
That was extremely considerate of @rashtrapatibhvn. Good effort by @Taj_Cochin and I'm sure @hall_ash had a truly memorable wedding. https://t.co/UztAnxseGf
Want to be more customer centric in 2020?
Here’s a 5-step plan to help you get marketing results worth bragging about:
1. Talk to customers
2. Gather stories (not opinions)
3. Brainstorm big ideas
4. Run little tests to find winners
5. Repeat
The strongest intellectual foundation is built upon science, math, and philosophy, as they are the search for universal truths.
I think the human mind's bottleneck was best explained by Prof Patrick Winston - "We have just one language processor". In other words, we can do only one language related activity at a time. For e.g.....
@jjude @hasgeek Happy to.
The reason I like physical books over ebooks is the memory palace effect: the concept that we remember things better when we can assign a physical object to each memory.
I can just look at a book and recall what I took from it.
Good thread with interesting pricing facts about SaaS products. So great lessons here. https://t.co/E2WP6x0jU8
v2 of a 2x2 of marketing technologist archetypes.
Way too busy, but this is a work-in-progress to experiment with different labels for the axes and quadrants — would love your feedback.
Caveat: classification of modern roles is messy. But is this directionally right? #MarTech https://t.co/y9MWEWmeCL
CHOOSE LINDY OBJECTIVES (thread)
1/ The Lindy principle: for something non perishable, age is an estimate for life expectancy
Example: a book which has been popular for 100 years is likely to be still popular in 100 years
Last year’s bestseller is unlikely to be popular in 100y
For every 0.1% you get better at something, you leapfrog millions of people. Think globally, execute individually.
One of my favorite new friends I met in 2019 is @rudman_ben. He's a sharp investor/operator and highly under-followed. He writes here: https://t.co/jMFU99Njga
He put together 100 favorite tweets of the year. Great selection. Check him/it out. https://t.co/GDiJDDSfFI
Read 42 books in 2019, down from 87 in 2018. Highlights were Range by @DavidEpstein, Lifespan by @davidasinclair, Loonshots by @SafiBahcall, Alchemy by @rorysutherland, Educated by @tarawestover, What It Takes by Stephen Schwarzman, Loser Think by @ScottAdamsSays 1/2
Frameworks for building new products:
—The gap between sci-fi & sci-fact
h/t @wolfejosh
—Extreme personal dissatisfaction
—Same old trick, brand new platform
—Commoditize your opposite
—What smart people do on the weekend will be a scale activity in 10 years h/t @chrisdixon
7. Deepfakes will take Identity Theft to new levels:
Cyber criminals used to steal credentials & passwords.
Deepfakes will let them steal your face & voice - phishing will reach new levels.
Deepfakes ethics will be as a hot social topic & big new startups will fight deepfakes.
The best teachers constantly learn.
The best learners constantly teach.
The best thinkers do both.
Fastag is really poorly designed - this is the kind of outcome we get when governance is designed exclusively by those in power without the participation of stakeholders. Unfortunately, we've designed far more important things like education also in the same way !!
Think for yourself, not of yourself.
Think of others, not for others.