Joseph Jude

“Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.”

There’s also a compounding effect with multi-disciplinary knowledge not often spoken about. The more fully you integrate lessons learned, in principle, across disciplines the more powerfully you can learn.

We categorize everything on our roadmap into acquisition, engagement, monetization initiatives with specific key results for each and constantly debate where to allocate effort across them. Always surprised though to see the nice lifts in acquisition from our engagement efforts.

Poor people think you set goals to get a result. Wealthy people know you set goals because of who you will become on the journey. The identity you build along the way is the asset.

Dear everyone who works at @Twitter, you saved my mom’s life this week. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Here’s the story. Crying tears of joy today for my mom, all because I sent a tweet.

One of my Prof used to say your experience should be 1+1+1... and not 1*1*1... You should add something every year and not repeat the same thing every year.

Committees popup in one of the two circumstances - a) there is a deficit of trust and the decision needs checks and balances b) no one person wants take the risk of deciding anything and they want their behinds covered. The structure is engineereed for median output, not best.

Growth and quality are like the accelerator and brake to a stock. Growth without quality causes severe accidents and quality without growth won’t start the car for you ! #TheThoughtfulInvestor

"Too many journalists see their work as an opportunity to promote their own pet political notions, rather than a responsibility to inform the public and let their readers and viewers decide for themselves."

Most mainstream financial advice isn’t technically wrong... but it fails to address the psychological and behavioral factors that lead most people to sabotage the future for the present.

Passion ≠ Hunger Hire passionate people and they’ll care deeply about what you’re building. Hire hungry people and they’ll stop at nothing to make it real.

If you accepted BJP for Reddy, Yeddy and now multi-crore black money horse trading, you never rejected Congress for corruption. You needed a cover as a polished reason for your English-speaking urban bigotry. A glorious Mandir will be designed & constructed there only, bro.

Stalin, Mao, Hitler and Pol Pot all called their opponents "parasites" or "vermin" or "animals." Dehumanization is what you do to unwanted social groups before killing them

"AI is going to make good sales reps great, great sales reps incredible and average sales reps irrelevant." - @JohnMBarrows

Don't let "what you become" overshadow "what you could become" #wisdom by @jjude

The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.

Why does HBO make way better shows than ABC? Because HBO writes for the person who WATCHES TV, *NOT* the advertisers. Translated to online marketing: Your e-mail list is (usually) better because you're writing for your readers; whereas, your blog posts are written for Google.

Irony : 4000 years ago, on one side stood a giant, a palestine by the name Goliath and David a scrawny shepherd boy - who with a sling, pelted a stone and won the war. Today, David is the powerful one and the other side is pelting stones. The war however continues.

It’s terrifying that both of these things are true at the same time in this world: • computers drive cars around • the state of the art test to check that you’re not a computer is whether you can successful identify stop signs in pictures

Did you know that the first woman to receive a Ph.D in Computer Science was a nun? Sister Mary Kenneth Keller helped to develop a key computer language: BASIC. Such an interesting story #WomenInTech

To the untrained eye it’s magic, to the sophisticated it’s simply a times series set of hard creative decisions stitched together with hope, mania and blind faith

This is amazing: in an online community, simply telling misbehaving members that their account may have been compromised, asking for a password change made them stop the behavior — giving them the opportunity to save face instead of openly berating them

Bigots never really want to debate. They want to recruit. When they say they "debate me," what they are saying is that they would like for you to use your platform to direct a population's attention to them, because statistically, they can sway at least a few from any large set.

"You do not want to win an argument. You want to win." Need this tattooed on the inside of my eyelids —> Winning Arguments ≠ Winning

My most cherished luxuries: All the sleep (8.5h+), none of the ⏰. A flow of clean, filtered air. Regular exercise driven by an instructor. Fresh, home-cooked meals. A view of nature and water. Meaningful work for 40h/wk (or less). Two kids and a wife to love and laugh with.

Discipline is when your values and long-term goals change your short-term behavior. This process gives you the foundation for success.

Scaleable biz 1. Low CAC (word of mouth) 2. Low marginal costs 3. Huge market 4. Scale economies 5. Few employees 6. Float financing 7. Pricing power 8. Low regulation 9. Low distribution cost 10. Low support costs 11. Low churn 12. Strong network effect Via @trengriffin

“The more reusable something is, the less usable it is.” Neal Ford, ThoughtWorks @thoughtworks @greatindiandev #gids18

Repeat after me... Regular Polls is the feature, not a bug, of democracy. 13/n

CTO’s Prayer: God, grant me engineers to build the things I can’t buy, budget to buy the things I can’t build, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Over the long haul people who value results over ego are better off

Mastering sales as a CTO by @jjude #sales #cto

A consultant is someone who improves the client's condition and leaves, not someone who comes to study a problem and stays to become part of it.

In #saas you don’t win by being first to market - instead, monetize earlier by optimizing freemium use cases, build stickiness via integrations & expand into enterprise by being the system of record - good insights by @hnshah

Who are your ideal #prospective buyers & how will you get on their radar screens? That's your sole focus for dramatic growth.

Self-respect is produced by inner triumphs, not external ones - David Brooks

@wolfejosh @patrick_oshag solid thread. 1) All value is subjective 2) All prices are contextual @ronaldbaker @edkless

Technical writing is 10% typing and 90% trying to think of good examples.

@iddings_sean Reminded me of this: "Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give." - William A. Ward

Just because you have the best technology doesn’t mean you’ll win. Too many people are building technology and not enough people are building usable products and services.

Mark Leonard from Constellation Munger's Wesco Letters Jamie Dimon's More than annual, but...Howard Marks Memos Sardar Biglari's certainly are "interesting"

Some people think that if you refuse their invitation to an argument it means they are right, or they won. Sometimes it simply means that you have not accepted the invitation to enter their contentious world of bile, bitterness and high cortisol levels. Life is too short!

I test people who seek coaching by immediately pushing back on one of their positions. If they immediately defend it instead of engaging in discussion, I know coaching is not going to work.

You can get someone to agree with you using one of the four tactics. Influence. Persuasion. Manipulation or coercion.

Indira Gandhi boasted less about 1971 war in which Pak was comprehensively defeated, Bangladesh was created & 90,000 Pak soldiers were arrested; than Modi boasts about ‘Surgical Strike’ which killed one dozen terrorists.

.@AngellicAribam tweeted video of a stranded man in Bandra to @MumbaiPolice While we secured him, @SamarendraAtom tweeted & identified him as Khomdram Singh from Manipur,missing since 40 yrs! Our Twitter team coordinated b/w Bandra & Patsoi Pstn to reunite Mr Singh with family 😊

Never argue with fanatics. Their minds are made up. Their hearts are dysfunctional. They will make up with energy what they lack in perspective.

The most durable way to stand out among a sea of competition and noise? Build a brand.

It is best to attack the substance of an argument. It is less good to attack the style of an argument. It is pathetic to attack the identity of the arguer.

“Facebook only has the image I’m trying to project, Google is the one reading my actual emails!”