Joseph Jude

6/ People give an amazing performance when they’re given one well-defined thing to do.

Weak leaders silence their critics and make themselves weaker. Strong leaders embrace their critics and make themselves stronger.

Products make platforms. Platforms sustain product longevity.

"If you tell the truth it becomes a part of your past. If you tell a lie it becomes a part of your future." Hazrat Ali

Have been compiling Amazon list of all the Books ever recommended by @naval over the last few years - this list is pretty exhaustive. I know many would find this super useful. You're welcome :)

The evolution of self-esteem in a career:   Phase 1: I’m not important Phase 2: I’m important Phase 3: I want to work on something important   The sooner you get to phase 3, the more productive you’ll be and the more impact you’ll have. - Adam Grant

The biggest enemy of agility (at the code level) is unnecessary complexity. Code must do exactly what’s necessary, and not one iota more. Even extra arguments that make a method “more flexible” are a bad idea. Don’t write code for future scenarios that may never occur. Refactor.

The flashy tech solution and the savior make good movies. But what makes most things work is the quite hero/ine embedded in institutional knowledge—divers who brought decades of knowledge. The Thai officials who let go—must have been hard. Farmers who let their fields be flooded.

5) Because employees don’t have SITG to optimize for the best possible outcome for the company/institution, they instead optimize for their boss/job assessment, leading to things like the 2008 crash, juicing quarterly earnings, the Vietnam War, the War on Terror: no SITG

@danslee My fave tutor at uni had a great journalism 101 lesson: “If someone says it’s raining & another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the f**king window and find out which is true.”

More importantly, if Deloitte is a contractor for the FBI and is covered by the Patriot Act, then Deloitte as only company allowed to audit #Aadhaar India's centralised biometric data base, is also obliged to hand it over to the US government!

Databases make the past legible to software. Sensors make the present legible to software. Predictive ML makes the future legible to software.

There are 4 types of wealth: 1. Financial wealth (money) 2. Social wealth (status) 3. Time wealth (freedom) 4. Physical wealth (health) Be wary of jobs that lure you in with 1 and 2, but rob you of 3 and 4.

Reading about the cave rescue in Thailand and came across this quote from a Navy SEAL about their training "Under pressure, you don’t rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training. That’s why we train so hard." Maybe the most real advice I've ever read

This expressway is a perfect instance of how Modi Govt functions: 1) Make a big deal out of a small amount of work 2) Do a big show to attract praise 3) PM takes credit for it all 4) Work breaks down, cracks show 5) Ignore that & move on to next one!

Far-right are nostalgic for a world that never was. Far-left are hopeful for a world that can never be.

Over 100 seed investments in, i find myself favoring familiar products/services (established needs) with a revolutionary go-to-market vs. entirely novel products with familiar go-to-market.

9/ Get early customers on chat. A few reasons: (1) a great way to get them to follow through on using the product because you can hold their hand & (2) invaluable way to get feedback & troubleshoot their issues to fix later in the product. I did this w/ the first 200+ customers.

7/ Find a niche of customers instead of trying to be something for everyone. FB started w/ elite colleges. SoundCloud started w/ bedroom producers collabing. Airbnb w/ spare bedrooms. It’ll be easier to explain your product making it easier to convince the right early users.

2/ This 1st lesson comes hard learned for most engineers: get up — away from your monitor—and talk to your users! I know it’s safer & comfortable to just email people but it’s also easier to ignore you. Your first 100 customers are usually acquired as a result of YOU selling.

If your answer to a disagreement is to cast an insult; then you have lost the argument. It might make you feel good for a moment; but it’s pure auto stimulation.

"What can we be certain of from history? That human beings have been wrong innumerable times, by vast amounts, and with catastrophic results. Yet today there are still people who think that anyone who disagrees with them must be either bad or not know what he is talking about."

OH: “There are two kinds of companies - those with perfectly consistent architectures, and those that are still in business.”

Think @naval said, when u have a decision to make and can’t make up ur mind, go with the harder choice. If the easy choice were the right one you wouldn’t have any trouble making the decision. So simple, yet powerful.

@tavleen_singh Q- Shouldn’t we differentiate between “Muslim Invaders”, and “Islam terrorizing Hindus”? Q- By this logic, Afghans will be aggrieved with Sikhs citing Afghan-Sikh Wars. Would they be right? Q-Shouldn’t we get over our grievances from medieval history, learn and move on?

#WednesdayWisdom The first printed book in an Indian language and script was a Tamil translation of Jesuit catechism in Portugese, prepared by Henri Henriques and publ in 1577 from the Jesuit Missionaries' printing press in Goa.

"People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would such people elect?"

Kubernetes is an Ancient Greek word meaning "More containers than customers."

When specific knowledge is taught, it’s through apprenticeships, not schools.

@dhanyarajendran @CMOTamilNadu @RamaAIADMK Will surely do soon !

Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers.

Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media).

Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.

Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.

Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.

You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain your financial freedom.

A real reason so many people today are miserable is because they have never known the satisfaction of having built anything with their own hands, created anything worthwhile. Never done a day of unequivocally good work.

The government’s pen IS a sword. “The pen is mightier than the sword.”

This #CobraPost sting has solidified my personal faith in decentralized, smaller, digital media. At the very least, they are trying to keep the beacon of Journalism alive. In their own small way.

For any society to develop there are two fundamental rules that should exist in it. 1. Work hard and you will come up in life. 2. If you do wrong, you WILL be punished. Build a society that enforces and ensures that these two happens, and development begins.

Mayawati inaugurated 165 KM TajExpress Way but she didn't travel in open jeep for photo-ops Akhilesh inaugurated 302 km Agra-Lucknow expressway but he didn't travel in open jeep for photo-ops Modi today inaugurated 9KM of expressway traveling in open jeep! 😂😂😂😂😂

So it begins. "What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end." -Warren Buffett

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights. #HomeToVote #VoteNo #SaveThe8th #8thRef #ProFamily #ProLife #AntiAbortion

Is there a good way to get twitter highlights for a person? E.g. "here are the 10 best things this person has tweeted this month"? I'd love to see something like that when deciding whether to follow someone new.

"People don’t usually grow up when there are other people who make excuses for their immaturity."

Dont ever take advice from someone who has never done what you are about to do

"In Hebrew the word for crisis is 'mashber' which also means a birthing-stool. In Hebrew, crises are not just opportunities, they are birth-pangs. Something new is being born." Jonathan Sacks #lovethismanswritingandobserving

If your goal is to build your character, here's a fairly honorable goal to have: ➡️Wherever you go, leave something noticeably better than it was before you came. -clean a mess -cheer someone up -fix something broken -settle a dispute Your value will be recognized.

Often I hear people say, "Vision unites people." I disagree. Vision divides people. It separates the people who will from the ones who won't--and that's a good thing.

The people I know who get a lot out of Twitter approach it with a “yes, and” mood; those who find it frustrating seem to see it more as a “no, but” medium.