9) We didn't feel even once someone was trying to cheat or con us anywhere at all—be it drivers to shop keepers. Absolutely no malice.
10) They have great roads—excellent highways through mountains, paddy fields etc. Some of them are breathtakingly gorgeous.
So sad to see responsible leaders and even more responsible media have to lie so much to attack a decent, honest and humble human being on a 3000km march to meet the people of India.
https://t.co/prfYNyotPT
#BharatJodoYatra
What I am reading currently https://t.co/8EQr4gwjs0
Somewhat of a rant, but I really want to talk about UPI and ONDC, and especially the "digital infrastructure" of the country that the techno-sanghis have been using as the backbone for a patriotism-flavoured Twitter clout-farming of late.
In India they are called "super specialities"
In the rest of the world they are called "subspecialities"
The logic is that it is a "narrow field of professional knowledge/skills within a speciality"
Wider shallow knowledge vs acute deep knowledge
#MedTwitter
#UnpopularOpinion
The #Govt's big bet on democratising #e-commerce, #ONDC has gone live in #Bengaluru in select pincodes. @Shilparanipeta and @hrprya explain how this can help small retailers go online and potentially challenge the #e-commerce heavyweights. https://t.co/j3UH8WkP6A
Things that are recession proof:
1. Wisdom
2. Understanding
3. Knowledge
4. Creativity
5. Self-Restraint
6. Balance
7. Endurance
8. Humility
9. Integrity
10. Will-Power
/1 Why is Nginx called a “𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞” proxy?
The diagram below shows the differences between a 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐱𝐲 and a 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐱𝐲. https://t.co/k8xQwBVgW2
ULTIMATE DISTRIBUTION THREAD
20 of my favorite distribution channels & tactics for spreading B2B content after hitting publish.
These are great techniques for brands who realize the job isn’t over when you hit publish.
Dive in, drink coffee, ask questions, & add your own.
Dream in years.
Plan in months.
Evaluate in weeks.
Ship daily.
Prototype for 1x.
Build for 10x.
Engineer for 100x.
What's required to cut the timeline in 1/2?
What needs to be done to double the impact?
All the wisdom a team needs from former U.S. Chief Data Scientist @dpatil
10. Excel Formula Bot
Stop wasting hours creating Excel formulas.
Transform your text instructions into Excel formulas in seconds with the help of AI. https://t.co/7OJm34w2ev
This is how you can scan and sign documents with an iPhone https://t.co/ZpSap5TPuI
Rajpath intersecting with janpath was not a colonial hangover. It was to symbolise the social contract between state institutions and people who govern them. Kartavya path now puts the entire burden on the people with no accountability on the institutions...v v interesting.
An example of architecture from every single country in the world, in alphabetical order.
Starting with Afghanistan's Minaret of Jam.
1/196 https://t.co/leVs2M2WI0
True!!!
Mrs. Sumathi Velumani underwent a biopsy of pancreas twice in 2015.
Star Hosp A reported as Adenocarcinoma.
Star Hosp B reported as Neuroendocrine Tumor.
Before Cancer, Hospitals killed.
Loss of money not an issue. But the loss of my only asset is. #MissYouDarling https://t.co/pCoyLZoAQD
Substack is a great product but it delivers a soulless experience. It is the IKEA of blogs.
*Traditional* blogs like @MargRev and @commoncog still create a special feeling when reading/browsing them. 🫡🫡 https://t.co/j418zsVLnI
Some personal observations on the characteristics of people I know who are continuing to take as much care as possible to not get Covid (in no particular order): a short 🧵
1. High impulse control
2. Personal experience of serious illness
3. Strong internal locus of control
Compete
Make them participate in competitions. They will not win every time. But they will become comfortable with failure. Fear of failure is a bigger hindrance in success than failure.
4/n
Not those misguided souls who tell guys they need to beat their chests & jump up&down on their foes
Yeah, become incredibly good at the things you do (if that's what you want). Be bold & ambitious & determined. But be kind & generous to all around you. No matter what your gender
Most wealth inequality is driven by windfall gains, not by income inequality.
@PaperProfits_tw Yep, the numbers don’t lie. Plus having more free time to work on other projects is great.
@allenholub This echoes something I heard from @jonathanstark: "deadlines don't keep projects on track, communication does"
#PonniyinSelvan novel is famous for its characters, history and plot twists. Did you know that its geographical descriptions are accurate?
Come, let us travel along Vandhiyathevan to retrace the hero's journey in modern day Tamilnadu, with google map links and images! (A thread) https://t.co/fnwfGRQWk9
Fast way to get Reddit data:
Do a SparkToro search to find:
• Popular Subreddits in your audience
• Words they use in Reddit comments
Example: People who talk about Taylor Swift...
Are really into Taylor Swift. 😜
They're also into Harry Potter, Euphoria, & Olivia Rodrigo. https://t.co/IF2IzvvrKh
Charity is not only in the form of money or materials. It can be in the form of knowledge; giving time to someone; sharing good will; saying a few kind words etc. Charity is using what we have for the welfare of others.
1/ The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) for real-time transactions in India is a good case study for other nations in the payment space. https://t.co/ivrdfcf17g
Most storytelling advice sucks.
So I crowdsourced tips from actual experts – Rowling, Nolan, and Jobs.
Here are 10 dead-simple tips to become a better storyteller:
Amul is India’s most LOVED brand!
It earns INR 61,000 Cr revenue ⇒ 1.2x the combined revenue of Nestle, Britannia, Godrej & Dabur!
But advertising spend for,
1. Top FMCG brands: 8-15% of revenue
2. Amul: 1% of revenue 🤯
Learn how to buildd your startup’s brand from Amul 🧵
Then the iPhone killed Flash. Chrome also played a big part in that.
That $20B Figma acquisition looks like paying a technical debt for choosing Flash.
Maybe the biggest software product/tech debt payback in history.
Stable Diffusion is only 30 days old…
a MEGA THREAD 🧵 on its rapid rise.
Simplicity sells.
People like simple. People are willing to pay for simple. If you want to make lots of money in your career, spend time making things simple.
Experts simplify.
Con artists complicate.
How to identify the right product to sell https://t.co/Vptwej4tJL
The original Georgists. https://t.co/b3IdZmLBE4
McKinsey makes $500,000+ on a single presentation.
You can learn their simple framework below (for free):
With each passing day, I feel prouder of the Indian creativity thanks to videos like these -
What a video 😂😂😂 https://t.co/NqrGzdVdr1
I’ve seen an increase in the New Hire SMS Phish attack method recently:
- new hire starts at org, they or the org announce new role on LinkedIn
- attacker looks up new hire’s phone number on data brokerage sites
- sends SMS phish pretending to be Exec to new hire in first month https://t.co/PnaXO8Y75J
Dear sanghis who keep calling all Christians as ricebag converts,
If Hindus can be converted to another religion just by offering a bag of rice, it means that Hindu religion is more crap than INC party. Leaders from INC are taking crores of rupees to switch allegiance to BJP. 🤣 https://t.co/FJAcBYo3m9
Kumar: Everyday we're taught Ramayana and told what happened to Shambuka, Eklavya, Karna- what did they do, except being born in low caste? They were denied education. Therefore, 23 and 24 liberated them from clutches of landlords, upper castes.
#EWS #SupremeCourtOfIndia
Over the last 12 months, I tested 30+ SEO tools end-to-end.
Here are 9 FREE SEO tools to market & supercharge your startup!
Try & share with others 🧵
@devongovett My thoughts exactly!
While building the npm package bundler for @ReflameApp, I discovered a little known flag in npm --prefer-dedupe that adjusts the resolution algorithm to prefer deduping packages instead of greedily resolving to the latest version: https://t.co/LtDOMET4uD
In 1834, when a Christian missionary arrived in Northern New Zealand to work with the Māori tribes, he saw their women using a seemingly ordinary pot to boil potatoes. This pot extraordinarily links New Zealand & Tamil Nadu, though the two lands are over 11k kms apart. A 🧵1/11 https://t.co/qXDlv5O8Wf
@lucanne88 @mtmalinen I live in Germany, my gas bill just went from €75 per month to €800 😳
I am telling you people that the situation in #Europe is much worse than many understand.
We are essentially on the brink of another banking crisis, a collapse of our industrial base and households, and thus on the brink of the collapse of our economies.
Short thread. 1/4
17 life skills every parent must teach their kids before they leave home:
Happy to be able to announce that my A Plan is Not a Strategy video has passed the 1 million view mark. https://t.co/eJfaKbhzmN #strategy https://t.co/7FC6WM6l85
https://t.co/oXuScK3X3u
#BharatJodoYatra பாதயாத்திரை பலன் அளிக்குமா?
Full video: https://t.co/mtTjCnYsXo https://t.co/vliUmOvPL6
Good thread on Bengaluru urban governance. Every piece of governance, public artifact is political; acts of commission, omission. Why some places have pavements, drainage isn’t built in slums, spend huge sums on Metro, refuse to buy buses. Here’s a movie recommendation (1/2) https://t.co/nAP6163UTX
Back in 1980, the political theorist Langdon Winner (@langdonw) published a journal article titled ‘Do Artifacts Have politics?’
As one of most influential academic papers ever, it’s been cited by 1000s, and is mandatory reading if you work in society, politics, and technology. https://t.co/BxNCbViX2T
Do you know the best way to get ready to sing?! This is from our children’s singing workshop today #rscm #churchchoir #GlorytoGod @chelmsdio @churchofengland https://t.co/oyCoKtcg0F