❌How To Fail A Startup: → Idea → Design → Coding → 😫Audience ✅How To Succeed at Startups → Audience → Problem → Idea → Social Post → Waitlist → SEO → One Feature SaaS MVP → 😋Iterate With Users Tools I Use For Each Step ⤵️ → Audience: X, Linkedin, Reddit,…
Was in/directly recommended this book like 5 times in the last couple months. Holy shit. It does not disappoint.
7. Is there any natural talent? People want to believe that experts are born with talent. Unique genes, superior brain. But in reality, Eric never found someone who attained expertise without putting in equal hours as their peers. You don’t acquire skills by magic but by reps.
It is always a much easier task to educate the uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated. Herbert M. Shelton
How to build a $1,300/month side business for $19. Here's the entire 16-step business plan for you: 1. Clean up your profile to reflect what you do for people. 2. Create content that talks about a challenge you solve. 3. When people ask questions, DM them. 4. Tell them…
Book list for senior managers:
This is an important conversation to have. Technology can make things that people want, cheaply. And letting more people have more of these things is good. But HOW things are made is important for 3 reasons: A: It puts food on the makers' table. B: It gives makers a purpose…
Looking for some Zapier automation inspiration. What are some cool ways you use Zapier or have seen others use it?
@BaluGorade Others are also doing a great job for my MF portfolio. I am investing in Canara Robeco (48%), SBI (33), HDFC (3), & PPFAS (14). No further plan to invest in any other AMC fund as allocation is done according to the risk profile/time horizon. HDFC allocation>10% is near term🎯.
📂 Strategy execution ∟ 📂 Strategy ∟ 📂 Core values ∟ 📂 Vision & mission ∟ 📂 Mission & choices ∟ 📂 Goals ∟ 📂 1yr goals ∟ 📂 90day OKRs ∟ 📂 2-week sprints ∟ 📂 Projects ∟ 📂 Why &…
what are you going to build with Sora? 💡here are 17 ideas 🙈 - scrape WikiHow and turn articles into step by step videos - make promo videos based on a link to a homepage - e-commerce plugin to show outfits in an action-packed real life setting - 24/7 TV based on your…
My Biggest Fu*kup As A Founder - Ignoring SEO for 14 years My SEO journey started in March, Since then I got 4.6M impressions & 73k clicks. Tons of signups and the best ROI ever. If only I'd done this earlier, my revenue could be 5x bigger. My 6 Steps from "Dummy" to Now👇 1)…
I talk to a lot of solo founders who run lifestyle businesses that make at least $10k/month. And I see a pattern. Almost all of them picked a saturated niche with a lot of competition and a lot of demand. Because of this, they didn’t have to validate their idea. They found a…
Russia passed a strict anti-evangelism law in 2016. This is specifically targeted at evangelicals. They are not legally allowed to share their faith in the public square, including through the internet. It hasn't gotten better.
@minicnair M S Golwalkar studied from Hislop College in Nagpur, founded by a Scottish missionary.
If Hypocrisy had a face!!!🤣🤣🤣 Sai Deepak attended St Anthony!!!
@jjude I use Readwise Reader as my read-it-later service. It also supports YouTube videos and has a summarizer built in. I haven’t been using the summary as a filter but it’s an interesting concept and something I’ll try to start doing.
IMPORTANT FOR INDIAN CITIZENS: Those who are eligible to vote, please do the following: - Login to - Ensure that you have registered there with phone number and email id - Check your EPIC number and correctness of address - Digital Bharat has ensured…
You can read our previous deep dives into AI and the Global Energy Transition below: AI: Energy Transition:
The astonishing Jensen Huang of Nvidia talks about the future of AI. Sovereign AI is the future and more valuable than oil or gold. An important listen.
Someone shared this with me. It makes sense to hold and even buy, despite severe drawdowns, if future earnings potential are good. Extremely difficult to do. But that is precisely how fortunes are made. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala has travelled with Titan during this volatile journey,…
@fortelabs The problem here is - in 99% of cases I’m not interested. Maybe that has something do to with general exhaustion, overload of information, being locked inside your own problems and thoughts or just the other person really not wishing to tell much or not being too open.
@fortelabs Option 1 IS better than 2. I got good at asking Qs. Then I read "Motivational Interviewing" (Miller & Rollnick) Changed. My. Life. 3rd option that usually beats Qs: Reflective Listening Reflect back as a stmt what they said. More empathic, deeper listening & less directive
Every industry has 1 book that will teach you 90% of what you need to know about it. Here are the 20 best books in 20 different industries: (ranging from automotive to venture capital)
I don’t understand why policy makers are surprised that large outsized winners have emerged on an open meritocratic playing field when that’s exactly what happens on open meritocratic playing fields - especially the ones on the internet.
XPlore Series on Stock Investing What are the Minimum you need to KNOW in investing?
How I create SEO content plans: I flip the traditional content funnel into a pyramid. This framework: - Prioritises revenue - Builds a content moat - Earns backlinks naturally - Scales organic traffic quickly Here's a breakdown (with examples):
Everyone should have a side project that earns $150+ per day. Here are 4 simple examples that might help:
@arvidkahl Had the same issue with this post yesterday but today it started working without me changing anything I’m double checking my posts using and if it works there, I’m quite confident it’s something on X‘ side.
An underrated solution to a problem is finding out why you have the problem in the first place and then avoid it. We are way too quick to throw patterns/tooling to problems instead of taking a step back and look at how we got in the situation in the first place.
Powerful prompts here. Creating distance between yourself and your thoughts goes a long, long way for peace of mind.
Study this chart of General Electric. That massive uptrend from 1981-2001 happened under Jack Welch's leadership. Business school professors eulogized him and financial journalists wrote fawning articles about his leadership style. Everyone praised him as America's greatest CEO.…
10 Must-read Investing Books that will take your investing to the next level: 1. 100-Baggers
After months of procrastination, got a dash cam installed in the car. It's a must have now in Bangalore. Got a pretty sweet deal on what I think is probably one of the best, if not the best, cams. Viofo A229 Pro (4K Starvis 2 Front + 2K Starvis 2 Rear + FHD Starvis Internal).…
27 microhabits that will change your life: 1. Follow the One Minute Rule: If something takes one minute (responding to a text, hanging a jacket etc..) or less to complete do it immediately.
What’s the best approach to overcoming self-doubt you’ve encountered? Book, framework, theory, etc… I find this an especially difficult problem to help people work through.
At a microcosmic level the Chandigarh Mayoral election where BJP could invalidate crucial Cong/AAP votes proves the Ashoka University research regarding BJP's capacity to manage/manipulate polls.
This is an idea I can't stop thinking about: Winner's Game vs. Loser's Game In the 1999 tennis book, Extraordinary Tennis for the Ordinary Tennis Player, author Simon Ramo broke down the difference between amateur and professional tennis: Amateur tennis is a Loser's Game. 80%…
This is the best time to start a company in 30 years. I’ll summarize some of the best opportunities for you: 1. Buy distressed VC assets. Recap them. Offer team dividends going forward. Turn them into profit machines. 2. The media apocalypse is here. 20,000+ media employees…
Calling all podcasters! 🎙️ What's the most challenging aspect of creating and producing your own show?
Just heard one of my favorite lines in a long, long time… “Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask” - Tim Ferriss (@tferriss)
As many of you know, over the past few months I have been sharing Prompt Engineering resources in different forms. I have now compiled them all into a cohesive publication and uploaded to arxiv:
@jjude Picking and choosing our battles is the art of living, my friend. Thank you for reminding me of it. 🙂
The antidote to envy
Start your day zoomed out: ❖ Review your 12 month goals ❖ Create a "get to do" list for the week ❖ Ponder your "why" Spend your day zoomed in: ❖ Focus on today's tasks ❖ Work on 1 task at a time ❖ Do 1 thing just for fun Success is earned with 365 small wins.
This meme should be right up my alley, but Docker is to me one of the greatest simplifying technologies I’ve seen in my career. The trick is just to stop there! Docker barely needs any seasoning to be delicious (try Kamal for zero-gap deploys, it’s just Docker calls!).
I like how Rahul Gandhi keeps up his enthusiasm for Bharat Jodo Yatra despite getting battered daily by political setbacks. Shows character. In the end such people usually win
Exactly an year ago, Oxfam-India, a now beleaguered NGO, said that the bottom 50% of our population paid 64% of the GST collected in 2021-22 whereas the top 10% contributed only 3%. Two months later, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman pilloried its findings in the Rajya…
"We want them to be grateful, but we won’t be graceful. The neighbours are getting sick of our boasts... Triumphalism has crept into our virtuosity; it is earning us malice instead of goodwill" writes @rprasannan with a much needed reality check
