How I would apply for this job: 1. Spend 1 hour watching the recent public board meetings on YouTube 2. Spend 3 hours designing something relevant to the company roadmap in Figma 3. An email or DM with the image embedded inline and some explanations to the design decisions I…
@AliAbdaal If you want to give this a try for yourself, here's a step-by-step guide with the prompt and how to use it: And if you really want to go down the rabbit hole:
I spent 11,923 hours studying finance. Wild. Here are the 7 most important finance rules:
Many folks would be blown away by the amount of incompetent people in this world who earn great money simply because they aren’t insecure. You do not need to be smart or spectacular to get rich. A thread:
Stories have 6 primary arcs: • “Rags to riches” (rise) • “Tragedy” (fall) • “Man in a hole” (fall-rise) • “Icarus” (rise-fall) • “Cinderella” (rise-fall-rise) • “Oedipus” (fall-rise-fall) Programmatic analysis validates Kurt Vonnegut's legendary rejected masters thesis.
Diabetes friendly food , for Indian vegetarians: Almond Avocado Walnuts Pistachio Broccoli Cauliflower Cabbage Okra Bottle gourd Ridge gourd Round gourd Parmal Kundru Methi/Fenugreek Chenopodium Bitter gourd Egg plant Paneer Whey Cheese Ghee butter Coconut Coconut oil Green…
Gratitude journal--what I'm grateful for Learning journal--lessons and insights I got today Humility journal--souvenirs when I was smart by half--a half-wit.
@Wegiveyouhealt1 Sex and meditation are about union. Becoming one. Same objective but two different path. None is better than other. Masturbation as an alternative to sex offers union within but with a lack. It is good for your wellbeing and health and it starts with good sleep.
The most powerful ideas to accelerate your career: 1. You don’t owe an employer loyalty. You owe it to yourself to get a job that pays you the value you create.
AI video tools like Runway and Pika have started to produce amazing results and will eventually disrupt Hollywood. (PT32) Here are the best AI videos this week:
Here's the full article by Subramaniam Swamy, written in the Frontline magazine, 2000. It lays bare the ultimate aim of the sangh. Much of it has already been achieved.
After 19 cohorts of Ship 30, over 10,000 students enrolled, and millions of dollars generated in revenue, we've learned something about email marketing—and I want to share it with you. Guess how many emails it takes for someone to buy? It’s not 1. It’s not 2... On average,…
@lolitataub If they are asking "when to give up," it may be time to call it a day. This may be helpful 👇 The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin
@thepracticalpen @jjude 1. One local set of HDDs 2. One NAS storage at home 3. AWS S3 intelligent tiering bucket
Which author have you read the most? For which author would you most excitedely buy their next book no matter the topic or plot?
A brilliant analysis by @chamath on future value creation opportunities based on generative AI: “Most of the money made off the invention of refrigeration wasn't by the makers, but companies like Coke. If AI/LLMs are refrigeration, who is next Coca-Cola?”
What idea do you think society is wrong about? Here's mine: Cognitive biases are actually superpowers. 9 examples:
Thinking a lot about writing lately. I've always believed that, professionally, I would be known as an author. But if I'm honest, I'm not writing enough for that future to come true. So I ask myself, "Do I want to be an author, or do I want to write?" Gotta do the verb to be…
Here is the blueprint Elon Musk uses to hire exceptional talent at SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink 🧵 Bookmark for later.
A 35-year longitudinal study asked how parents pass on their spiritual and religious convictions. The study found 2 surprising results: First, “having a close bond with one’s father matters even more than a close relationship with one’s mother.” In other words, fathers have…
Paul Graham turned a $200k investment into a staggering $600 billion YC portfolio. He is a beast at identifying the hot trends and jumping onto them before anyone else. Here are 7 booming industries to launch your next big business in 2024: 🧵
2/ Outfit anyone with AI 1) Upload a person 2) Upload a garment (could be top and lower) 3) Run! demo:
9 faceless YouTube niches that will make you $10,000/mo (#8 will surprise you)
Bonus quote: “When data and anecdotes disagree, the data is usually wrong”
To see if a book is real, ask 10 people of different backgrounds & professions to summarize it. If the summaries are similar, the book will not survive as it can be shortened to a journal article. The more the summaries diverge, the higher the dimensionality of the book.
What a fascinating book!
@TechSalesGuy3 PIE Performance - you must nail your role Image - you must be perceived well by others Exposure - you must do something to get on the radar of those outside of you org to be noticed
10 Best products under $100 I've found in 2023: (read this if you need a last-minute gift idea)
What’s something that’s always worth the money?
ChatGPT content idea prompt: "I create content for {description of audience}. Give me 50 problems that this audience might have. Include a mix of practical problems and emotional ones." Get that info, then create content that solves the problems. Simple and effective.
Over the past weeks, we have all been celebrating the life of the great Charlie Munger Here is a 35-minute compilation of his answers to questions from the HBO Buffett documentary One of the best videos out there of the man He goes through meeting Buffett, philosophy, and more
5 best free YouTube automation tools 1. Pexels (Footage) 2. DaFonts (Thumbnails) 3. CreatorML (Analytics) 4. Clipchamp (Voiceovers) 5. Google Trends (Ideation)
As always, @benedictevans delivers a thought-provoking vision. This year questioning the real impact of GenAI and LLMs... 1/2
Three videos you must watch. 1] Opportunities & challenges in smallcaps by ppfas house: 2] No better market than India right now by S Naren: 3] Super bullish Samit Vartak: Do watch and share!!!
Incredible clip of Novak Djokovic on the mental aspect of his tennis game (reading other player, dealing with self-doubt and breathing to calm his mind).
I asked Twitter: What are the best history books? 29 fascinating recommendations: 1. Napoleon: A Man of Destiny (1928) 2. The World We Have Lost (1965) 3. Modern Times (1983) 4. From Dawn to Decadence (2000) 5. The Civil War by Caesar (46 B.C.) 6. A Great and Terrible King…
What’s the best book (audio books count) you’ve read this year ?
What are the best "history" books? (Bonus points for great men biographies and revisionist history books)
@CastroPodcasts As I am waiting for @CastroPodcasts to function properly again, I’ve decided to migrate my playlist to GitHub. If you’re interested in Design, Business, Tech and Innovation, this could be a great starting point in a new player. 😊
The company working on 1st AI powered Vedic city. Arahas Tech, run by none other than 'Lorem ipsum' 🙊
But seriously folks, this a short and juicy tirade in which I say: (0) there will be superhuman AI in the future (1) they will be under our control (2) they will not dominate us nor kill us (3) they will mediate all of our interactions with the digital world (4) hence, they will…
What businesses are the most recession resistant?
Capitalism is brutal. If you invest, you MUST know how to identify a moat. Here are 9 financial “rules of thumb” that Warren Buffett uses to tell if a company has one:
what’s the best truly banned book? not like 1984 banned — I mean PDFs that are literally unprintable, truly arcane knowledge
The people I admire most live in total alignment. They know who they are, what they want, and what they value. Their mission is clear and so are their priorities. And so, they live uncompromisingly. Family, friends, work, health and spirituality coexist as a single unified whole.
@TheCoolestCool These have a mix of business/economy too: Hardfork Pivot All in TWIST Newcomer | Cerebral Valley 20VC Lenny’s podcast Logan Bartlett show The Vergecast Prof G Decoder MoZ (moment of zen) ACQ2 Odd Lots Product Thinking The Skip 😅
@dwarkesh_sp tl;dr: Maybe learning simple things (basic knowledge, heuristics, etc) actually lowers the loss more than learning sophisticated things (algorithms associated with higher cognition that we really care about), and the sophisticated things will eventually be learned as scaling…
@carolvaljaots @robwalling 2 hours, sometimes 3. Rendering it out is another hour, and distribution takes another hour. Add 1h for recording and 4h or so for research and prep. So 12h altogether for the full thing.
I just re-read Stephen Covey’s classic “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” and was struck by how the first 3 habits cleanly map to the top attributes of barrels (see below for more on barrels). 1. Be Proactive => High Agency 2. Begin with the End in Mind => Outcome (not…
Over the last 5 years I lost 100 pounds, tamed my anxious mind, and escaped the Wall Street rat race. These 10 books helped me get there…
