We all should read some good literature.📚
I will be listing a few books that I have read, along with a brief introduction/excerpt and a short video (~5-10 mins) about each book.
There are several such literary classics, feel free to add your favorites here.🧵#BookTwitter
What's your #1 skill you'd wish you could monetize?
Judge a nation by how its rulers treat its garbage, its sick, its elderly, its farmers its women and it's children. Not in words but in deeds. Building highways and factories and writing slogans are the easier part.
1. Problems of education are hard and routinely underestimated or misconceived.
“Education” is different from e.g. “learning”.
Education requires, amongst other things, instructional design (which startup folks often don’t get) and quality educators (which are hard to scale). https://t.co/NVyRJ4Ylnh
Still brings a smile to my face
#ChristmasEve
#MerryChristmas https://t.co/p2Txg4xOPT
Over the last 5 years I lost 100 pounds, tamed my anxious mind, and escaped the Wall Street rat race.
These 10 books helped me get there… https://t.co/iAKyk8A5xc
The LangChain Cookbook: Part 1 - The Fundamentals
This @LangChainAI tutorial will ramp you up to the 7 core concepts of building apps powered by language models
You’ll learn LC's Schema, Models, Prompts, Indexes, Memory, Chains, Agents
+150K views on YouTube. Code below! https://t.co/G9bPsimFpR
Thinking a lot about writing lately.
I've always believed that, professionally, I would be known as an author.
But if I'm honest, I'm not writing enough for that future to come true.
So I ask myself, "Do I want to be an author, or do I want to write?"
Gotta do the verb to be…
Ingredients Guide for Indians
▶️ PROTEIN:
🔴 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗹𝘆: Eggs 🥚, Fish 🐟, Chicken 🍗, Red Meat 🥩, Paneer, Cheese 🧀, Yoghurt ✅✅
🔴 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝘆: Sprouted Legumes like Moong 🌱, Chana etc ✅
🔴 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: Whey ✅
🔴 𝗔𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗱: Soy, Pea…
Fellow Indians,
🔴 Most of you are not eating enough protein. You need atleast 1.2 gms/BW protein & you are not getting that.
🔴 Legit sources of Protein (considering all aspects) are
✅ Meat
✅ Fish
✅ Eggs
✅ Chicken
✅ Paneer
✅ Cheese
✅ Greek Yoghurt (> than Dahi)
✅ Whey…
If you want a career in Cyber Security, Open this:
The biggest gift you can give others is agency.
I don’t mean an agency you build as a business.
I mean agency as opportunity for others to make choices and decisions on their own.
It’s easy to rush through and do it yourself believing you can do it faster or better.
But give…
Some of my favorite books from 2023 (in no particular order):
Outlive by @PeterAttiaMD
Changed some of my behaviors as a result of reading it https://t.co/4M7fyaa3k1
#Nehru built temples of modern India.
#Modi builds modern temples for India.
Contemplate on the inner meanings.
Of both.
2023-
Core Portfolio: Megatrends + Leadership. 60% allocation.
1) ITC
2) USL
3) Pidilite
4) Titan
5) Nestle
6) Tata Consumers Products
7) Hdfc Bank
8) NSE (unlisted)
9) Dr Lal Pathlabs
10) Star Health
11) IEX
12) Neogen
13) HDFC Life
14) Apl Apollo
15) CCL Products
High Growth…
The company working on 1st AI powered Vedic city.
Arahas Tech, run by none other than 'Lorem ipsum' 🙊 https://t.co/vGPMW8xNNO
MIT University is offering free online courses.
No textbooks or fees required.
Here are 10 courses you don't want to miss & start earning $2000/m https://t.co/AvTosqhdXn
Find Exciting Ideas
I wouldn’t be where I am if I didn’t love what I did.
I found my Ikigai - the intersection of what I love, what I’m good at, what the world needs and what I can be paid for.
I help founders reach $5M/year with proven systems and I love every second of it. https://t.co/PTvowHy3lj
23 ad copy examples I collected this year:
1. Fiverr https://t.co/pWfi1PEwRP
Bible in One Year: Daily Videos and More
This past January, I started something that turned into a lot of learning and growth for me and others. Every day, I would do some research on the Scriptures, record and edit a 90-second video about it, then upload it to my social media… https://t.co/0d1exBJ6hN
I asked 375,000 people for their favorite things of 2023.
• Books
• Podcasts
• Newsletters
• Lessons learned
Then, I spent *hours* compiling answers to create the Best of 2023 Curation.
Here's the recap of each one: https://t.co/Wh2BvhZ3YF
These posts from a Trauma Therapist is gonna trigger a lot of Indian parents.
Part 1 https://t.co/45ZjEnIZdR
The obesity epidemic will never be solved until it's understood that many foods that make people overweight are like addictive drugs.
But big food manufacturers want their food to be addictive, so this is unlikely to happen.
Wind 🧵- Classic Titles Reimagined
Are you a book lover? Here are some all time classics titles & authors reimagined for current times!
This is a parody but in Amrit Kaal, “We are such stuff as Parodies are made on”
1/20 https://t.co/szV5Nu0F8p
3) Lift Heavy Weights, Increase Mobility, Less Cardio
Research shows regular physical exercise can counterbalance the effects of aging (image)
I like to work out for ~1 hour every day & I optimize for strength, stamina & mobility.
My exercise regime comes later ... https://t.co/fhdKs7iG6a
Here's the full article by Subramaniam Swamy, written in the Frontline magazine, 2000. It lays bare the ultimate aim of the sangh. Much of it has already been achieved.
https://t.co/q5nmrX94Hm
@OfficeOfDGP @Swamy39 For this video Swamy ji blocked me.. https://t.co/eOGU9wC8Rl
Last month - at the Financial Opportunities Forum - Fund Manager @oraunak walked us through the application of AI / ML Technology in the healthcare field. #ArtificialIntelligence #medicine https://t.co/qkb0b79f1c https://t.co/cSPqkj7jr7
@ZubyMusic Christianity = holding people to high standards/expectations.
You lose your high standards, and civilization starts to decline.
A very simple equation.
I asked my 170,000 followers for their favorite podcast episode of 2023.
These 11 were mentioned the most:
“Read enough, and you become a connoisseur. Then you naturally gravitate more towards theory, concepts, non-fiction”, says Naval Ravikant.
The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower.
25 books recommended by @naval 🧵 https://t.co/lmxillISFp
My free new book "Developer Experience (DX)" is available today: https://t.co/4rht1byP5X
This book delves into the essence of DX - making developers' lives easier and more productive. It also goes into the important relationship between DX and good UX. It's about 100 pages long… https://t.co/e8N87O0FTG
I hate boring annual reviews.
The best progress I've made as an entrepreneur comes from asking interesting questions.
Here're 10 of my favourite:
Useful tip for new year resolutions:🎗️
Commit to a realistic process -
>> I'll read 15 mins (almost) daily.
Instead of committing to an ambitious outcome -
>> I'll read 30 books this year.
Works better.✅
This is a far better way of looking at cancer! Much more holistic and far less toxic than conventional treatment!
https://t.co/jDjMNtwUoD
Anyone who knows me knows I love table questions! They elevate the conversation, they give everyone a chance to talk, and we always emerge knowing each other better.
Here are 2 of my favorites:
ok, I've now read the full NYT complaint filed this morning vs OpenAI and Microsoft. I'm impressed - it's future-focused around fair value for work vital to democracy. It also contains 220k pages of exhibits although the pages of Ex J stood out to me. more on that in a minute. /1 https://t.co/e394EZYCed
@palaknotpaneer 💯
They have a much greater appreciation for the physical world around us, which TBH we desperately lack in India
If you want to become a better software engineer, read these famous posts from top companies (OpenAI, Airbnb, Stripe, Figma, Netflix, Meta)
I spent hours curating top posts so you don't have to:
Math as evidence for God:
A widely quoted essay by Eugene Wigner is titled “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.” Wigner asks why the mathematical formulas we devise in our heads work so well in describing the external universe. The match…
Most societies through most of human history have been polygamous (or, like Rome, accepted men having sexual relationships outside marriage).
When the Christian church persuaded people to practice monogamy, the results were revolutionary.
Polygamy leads to:
--Elite men have…
Just learned about https://t.co/kVWhdIDILo. Very impressive pricing. Dedicated 32CPU/256GB machine for $329/month is pretty sweet. The very first Basecamp dedicated box had 1CPU/256MB and cost $400/month back in 2004 😄 https://t.co/HVpAqQjSpC
The Ethiopian Bible, believed to be the world's first illustrated Christian Bible, was written on goat skin and created around the early 5th Century CE. Named after the monk Abba Garima, who is said to have copied the text in a single day with divine assistance, the Garima… https://t.co/Ti2xCBY1Hm
Nothing has increased my programming productivity more than being able to restate hard problems as simple ones. Nobody taught me more about how to do that than the late, great Gerald M. Weinberg. https://t.co/PWXm0MItUv
Every year, I ask some of the smartest scientists and tech ppl I know what they consider the most important, amazing, or merely interesting breakthroughs of last 365 days.
It's one of my favorite pieces to write all year.
Here is 2023's list:
https://t.co/oki6CVowMx
Going on my first podcast as a guest tomorrow.
Do you have one tip for me?
I'm looking for a few accountability partners.
I just finished setting goals for 2024 across 5 buckets:
1) Family
2) Health
3) Wealth
4) Work
5) Play
Now I want a few people to hold me accountable to my goals and I'll do the same for them.
I'm thinking daily texts &…
End of year = Annual Review time
I can summarize the essence of my Annual Reviews as:
Discovering what you truly want for your life, again and again, in more subtle shades and deeper layers each time
Doing an Annual Review is simple - here’s a few questions to get you going:
A gem form the LessWrong community: 'Humans are not automatically strategic.'
"A large majority of otherwise smart people spend time doing semi-productive things, when there are massively productive opportunities untapped." https://t.co/5eR7t5YXLN
“The newest technical papers and the oldest books are the best sources of arbitrage. They contain the least popular facts and the most monetizable truths”, says Balaji Srinivasan.
20 books recommended by @balajis 🧵 https://t.co/p45O3C9r8b