Joseph Jude

Pic 1: When Pai is stuck in a queue: complains to ministers Pic 2: When someone dies in a queue: "25000 people die everyday"

Dear John, I know your targeting algorithm was cheap and thus not perfect, but I suggest to ask your money back from however sold it to you!

Twitter Rules: Praise specifically, criticize generally. Don't respond to negativity. Say it as if to their face. Be original. Don't debate.

Why cash? It is a mature insight. We know what credit cards do to people in the west, especially among the poor.

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"We don’t need an accurate document, we need a shared understanding." – Jeff Patton.

We live in a world where belittling others has long been the basis of political campaign strategies. It seems to be our favorite blood sport

Text is precise, compact, indexable, transmissible, translatable, asynchronous & quick to absorb. Intelligent, busy people prefer text.

This is what happens to your employees if you are open to all opportunities and afraid to pursue a distinct strategy

Improving productivity means time needs to be allocated to learning, experimentation, and sharpening your tools. Miss one & it costs you.

Perspective. It all depends on your point of view

6) Diversity of opinion is painful but critical to the health of a democratic society. We can't start purging people for political support.

Our childhood story of race between a rabbit and a turtle has indeed come true!

When you think of your attention like you think of your money, you’ll make better choices about what’s worth ‘paying’ for.

"You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic." -- Robert A. Heinlein

Confidence is believing you're good. Cockiness is believing you're better than anyone else. Leaders need to be confident not cocky.

Machine learning is like highschool sex. Everyone says they do it, nobody really does, and no one knows what it actually is.

A good reminder. Continuous Delivery (always shippable code) != Continuous Deployment (every 'green' build automatically deployed to prod)

What you do before the storm comes is largely responsible for how well you'll do once it comes.

@EconTalker @jjude Without the surge pricing the ride isn't there. Or consumer pays more in "time" by waiting. Either way you pay more.

How relavant is ‘The Mythical Man-Month’? by @jjude: #books #reading #software #engineering

Chatbots are in the "fart app" stage where people try silly things to feel out the medium. The experiences will rapidly get better.

Chatbots will not only be used for customer support. They will be used for entertainment, education, health, and productivity.

Chatbots represent a huge opportunity because people don't have to download a new app to engage, they simply need to send you a message.

The best chatbots won't replicate existing websites or mobile apps, but instead they will augment them with experiences unique to messaging.

Every time I go out thinking 'okay, going to give offline shops another chance', the experience is so bad I come home, buy stuff online.

a pack of bubblegum costs $2. and you literally chew it & spit it out. don't bother creating a product for less than $12/mo.

Also known as, "Indian".

You're not right or wrong because crowd disagrees you instead you're right because your data and reasoning are right.

I always begin by reminding ppl why we're here, what problem we want to solve, and what we want to accomplish by the end of the meeting.

The role of product manager at the core is owning macro-understanding of problem and micro-prioritization of solutions. + overcommunication.

How to build a successful company: recurring revenue, direct connect with customers, repeat business

The first rule of #API club: return a consistent error payload. {"msg":"…"} {"errors":"…"} {"errors":["…"]} {"errors":[{"msg":"…"}]} Sigh.

how I got better at debugging

There are limited sources of competitive advantage. Long term, value is created not by disruption, but by weaving together advantages.

Re-wrote a job description with the sections: "Why this job is important" "What you will learn on this job" ~5x more (and better) replies.

Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes little sense for those who know what they're doing. Keep concentrated portfolio.

If you look at India's history. The only common thread amongst all of India's success stories is that our govt has stayed away from it

A day in the life of: corporate vs. startup.

"Think complex. Speak simple." -Jeff Bezos

10 years ago, backends were monolithic services and frontends many pages. Now frontends are monolithic pages and backends many services.

@DilliDurAst Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first

@jjude Thank YOU instead! Grateful for the dedication and focus you bring.

There is no qouta in Olympics yet India's first individual medal was won by a Dalit named Khashaba Jadhav. (1952)

What do small businesses say they worry about? Poor sales, not the cost of wages. #fightfor15book #fightfor15

The quickest path to a mediocre life is to give in to your fear of failure. Don’t let past failures and struggles steal your courage.

Winners focus on winning. Losers focus on winners. #Rio2016

You can get quite far in a democracy if you can convince a majority that they are victims of a minority, and that only you can protect them.

The whole point of building a moat is to not have to bother fighting with every idiot who can build a sword. Well said @vgul

Nintendo's mobile strategy: 2008: what's an iPhone 2010: what's an Android 2012: nope 2014: still no 2016: change how society functions