I use Twitter as a commonplace note: https://t.co/vPr6DeA0d4 CTO In Sales • Homeschooling dad Building @siteaudittools & @thoughttonote
“So I asked Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, for a reading list. He gave me a list of like 40 research papers and said, ‘If you really learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters today.’ And I did. I plowed through all those things and it all started sorting out…
If you don't have world-class 1:1 meetings, you'll never have a high-performing team. Period. My blueprint to having ridiculously good meetings:
More people should pay attention to this message. One thing I’d add is that if your pushback is “but how can I measure quality” you are not yet ready, because even if you somehow found a measure, you likely don’t have the creativity & taste necessary to make it work in practice.
hype cycle kills focus needed to build great products, gen AI is doing that for many founders
@protosphinx I just read “Running money”. Explained it very nicely and detailed. Do read if you’d want expansion on this thought
Here's a checklist of 60 modern luxuries for entrepreneurs and creators aiming to live well in 2024: How many do you check off? 1. A+ headphones, A+ coffee/tea, A+ laptop 2. 1+ project that brings in $2k+/month relatively passively 3. International airport within 30 minutes…
The responses here are a treasure trove of good writing. Some of my favorites: • "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from." — Cormac McCarthy • “When a system is far from equilibrium small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to…
Outlive by @PeterAttiaMD is one of the best books written on managing and understanding personal #Health. It's my bible.
11 thoughts from Roger Scruton: 1. Scruton on the fundamental right-wing impulse: "Conservatism starts from the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created." 2. The hypocrisy of liberals: "Liberty is not the same thing as equality, and that those who…
This is the worst part of the tech ecosystem. Amplified by social media. Fake it till you make it. These kind of "cheating" videos and posts create so much FOMO while generating VC interest for the "faking it" poster. Do you know how many startups would have(still are?) wasting…
Team! Show off your cool open-source AI projects? (bonus if local & private) Let's make this thread happen!!! Reply below with your project. 🧵 Let's go open-source!
Here's @palkisu telling you why truth really doesn't matter, and resorting to falsehood is praiseworthy when you seek to build a narrative
BJP and its agents like Governor Ravi are trying to claim superiority of their mother tongue sanskrit over our mother tongue great Tamil ... In their arguments they never bring any scientific research facts, archaeological evidence, historical proofs.... except propagating few…
What’s the best sentence or paragraph you’ve ever come across?
The ability to test data eng code with a local DuckDB is such a game changer.
🚫 What you think managing up means: - Making a list of your contributions each week - Sharing your achievements with your boss - Meeting with your skip level once a quarter - Talking about career growth ✅ What managing up actually means: - Framing your ideas to get buy-in -…
"The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated."
Jensen believes he has great work-life balance 😁: “I work as much as I can." "I sit through movies and I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about work.” “I get my work done before I go to work.”
Generative AI could radically alter the practice of law. If it can do in 20 seconds a task that would have taken a dozen associates 50 hours each, then why would big legal firms continue hiring dozens of associates? 👇
Here is a question that I have not seen asked, or answered, Why was Christianity so widely embraced across Sub-Saharan Africa, but extremely unsuccessful in South Asia?
1/ Bloomberg Terminal For Retail Investors This is a great example of what can be built when you understand a market. Bloomberg terminals are expensive. This makes looking at the same data affordable. Plus, from what I could find, it's made by one…
I know, I know my writing may not be legible to all, especially the last few points - so here's the list. 1. Adequate cover for old age. 2. No room rent or category capping 3. No limits on treatment 4. All day care procedures covered. 5. No limit on Organ donor cover
@CarlLindesvard For , I use @Posthog because 1. It has multi dashboards 2. Insights can be written in hogql (a DSL) 3. Events are easy to capture and enrich But their API can be made easier (for data parsing) 😇 Hope it helps
Less than 119 hours ago, Meta dropped Llama 3. Minds are blown. And people are already coming up with wild use cases. 10 examples:
@JackBatian It depends I created/seen sites that do 1 thing and kill it. Others do a similar thing and kill it. If you are looking for a tool to your blog or content site add a tool that aligns with your content.
New pod: The future of India is the future of the world. It is the largest country by population today—and is projected to remain so for the next 100+ years. But what is India becoming under Prime Minister Modi? @RaviReports explains.
How a book written in 1910 could teach you calculus better than several books of today [Full text: ]
My god this-
5/ Enable Self-Onboarding for Your Employees, Clients and Vendors with AI Assistance! Interesting way to use AI. The user seemed to have good understanding of the client and has taken feedback well. 👇
Managed to rescue all my 2000+ bookmarks from Twitter. 😎 Had to scroll manually all the way to 2018 though.
So what are some other books aspiring (or actual) civil servants might want to read about the state, development, and bureaucracy? A 🧵
Millionaires are far more self made than billionaires. If your country has a low number of millionaires but a high number of billionaires, it means it's a shit place to do business and market has been monopolized by cronies.
You don't have to be Warren Buffett to make money in the stock market. 5 key takeaways from Motilal's Wealth Creation Study to help you become a super investor:
What are you convinced about that a random person off the street won’t likely agree you with?
Keep reminding your loved ones, the real problem affecting Indians are 1. Polluted air & river 2. Water borne disease 3. Healthcare 4. Bad quality schools 5. Unemployment 6. Destruction of hills/forest 7. Flood & drought 8. Cost of living/Inflation 9. Child malnourishment 1/2
Cultivate anti fragility in your career. Please spend some time as a freelancer/consultant. Get comfortable writing contracts, making estimates that will cost you real money, negotiating terms, sending invoices, meeting your CA, doing business development, pitching, asking for…
If you are exceptionally good at one thing that is rewarded by society, suddenly, people think you have everything else figured out too. A wealthy person can be a terrible parent. A gifted musician can struggle with depression. A famous writer can never practice what they preach.
Any book that blew your mind or surprised you on any topic?
I want to create some personal projects to boost my creativity and work on some animation skills. Something totally outside the box, focused on impression and memorability, not conversions. How do you guys come up with ideas for such? Where do you start? How do you pick a…
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“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?” The contrarian question. The litmus test for independent thinking. Many games in life are winner take all. Yet our participation in them is virtually automatic. Society’s norms condition us to think a certain way, act…
I like how Gandhi's dislike of violence only extended for violence against the British or against his followers. Not people who opposed him Between 1920 and 194, more than 50 Indian revolutionaries were hanged for the crime of fighting for Indian independence. Now going by…
I’m sorry, but you can’t - go from $0 to $100k in 30 days - learn anything useful in a day - get rich after a course - get rich these 5 simple steps - do one thing that’ll 10x your income - get rich by investing - get rich quick Secrets don’t exist. Don’t fall for bs
Indian elections are uncertain, but I think the results for the 2024 polls are more or less done I think, we will witness a govt with the highest majority since 1984 And this means an amazing opportunity I know this post means nothing, but here's my Wishlist for the next govt
Had to share this! 😂
Wow this is cool. You can find business ideas by searching through troves of Reddit data. Product is called Gummy Search and it's basically a search engine for Reddit. 1000s of good business ideas by simply searching: "I wish" "I hate" "I need"
Let's build a RAG app using MetaAI's Llama-3 (100% local):