I use Twitter as a commonplace note: https://t.co/vPr6DeA0d4 CTO In Sales • Homeschooling dad Building @siteaudittools & @thoughttonote
Judge a nation by how its rulers treat its garbage, its sick, its elderly, its farmers its women and it's children. Not in words but in deeds. Building highways and factories and writing slogans are the easier part.
Years ago when my wife and I we were planning to buy our home, my dad stunned me with a quick mental calculation of loan payments. I asked him how - he said he'd learned the strange formula for compound interest from his father, who was a merchant in 19th century Iran. 🧵 1/4
Man and Woman One of the beautiful truths of the creation account is how God makes sure everything has its divinely designed place. To accomplish this, he makes separations. Indeed, the Hebrew verb badal (בדל), which means to "separate" or "divide," occurs 5x in Genesis 1. This…
10 paradoxes that changed my life (and may change yours):
@patrick_oshag @FoundersPodcast Your best bet is to pick up a copy of huxleys the perennial philosophy. I’ve started to reread again recently.
This semester’s Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology reading list is an eclectic collection of works on best practices in communication and pitching, drug development, healthcare economics, medical innovation, and finance and investing. And a recommended @readwise feed.
8 Visuals that teach you more about Investing than 90% books out there! 1. There will always be something to worry about. Do not let Macro-noise influence your investing.
How Animals, Plants, Rivers, and Mountains Help Us to Teach the Bible Because we focus so much on the words, actions, and people of the Bible—and rightly so!—it is easy to overlook other important features of the scriptural narratives. For instance: 1. Geography: the rivers,…
I am a bridge-builder by nature. I have a foot in worlds with which I disagree. Some of us are called to make waves inside hardened places; not everyone is meant for this, many may need to leave. For me, I recognize that many places are deceived. I have to stay. To see them free.
Use & Combine: •Automation •Outsourcing •Mobile technology To build, operate, and grow your businesses. •Leverage liberation •Eliminate distractions •Perform product testing •Rethink scaling and profit •Master the art of delegation For more:
50 Ideas That Shaped My Thinking 1. Inversion: Avoiding stupidity is easier than trying to be brilliant. Instead of asking, “How can I help my company?” you should ask, “What’s hurting my company the most and how can I avoid it?” Identify obvious failure points, and steer clear…
THEM: “The Bible is inerrant, perfect and without any error because it is God-breathed.” My dude, humanity is “God-breathed” as well. Does that mean I am perfect and without any error?!
The ONLY 20 books you will EVER NEED to read, to get a thorough understanding of the world. A thread...
Oswald Spengler Thread🧵 In 1931, Spengler published one of the most idea-dense books of all time: Man and Technics It packs hundreds of interesting ideas in 52 pages Top 13 insights👇🏻
My creators' tech stack: Payment: Wise Website: Framer Editing: Grammarly Meetings: Calendly Publishing: Postwise Newsletter: Systeme Hosting: Mybluehost Design: Canva/Figma Project management: Notion Screen recorder: Screen Studio Cost: $1250/year
If you don't understand taxes, you'll never be truly wealthy. Here are 11 strategies the rich use to legally pay less in taxes:
How does a nationally-renowned journalist known for criticism of Evangelicals and Evangelicalism become a Christian baptized by @JDGreear at @SummitRDU? You can now watch @CollinHansen’s full interview with Molly Worthen on #Gospelbound directly on Twitter. Tune in:
Are you interested to understand the Indian POWER SECTOR to power your portfolio? Do read my multi-part blog on the sector. 5 more blogs will be soon added. URL for the blogs:
Last week McKinsey released their generative AI report. Here are the 10 key takeaways everyone must know:
Everything I know about DevOps I learned from @littleidea btw you should watch one of the best "devops" talks I have ever seen by @ahidalgosre and @littleidea
A number of years ago, the Orthodox theologian, Fr. Thomas Hopko, composed 55 maxims to guide Christians in their daily lives and struggles. Here are ten of my favorites. 1. Be always with Christ. 2. Have a short prayer that you constantly repeat when your mind is not occupied…
Don't blame cows ,According to the research, milk production contributes 1.3% of all greenhouse gases while transportation industry contributes about 28%. All agriculture contributes 10%. The generation of electricity contributes 27%. @IndianDairyAsso
WordPress: 810 million websites using it ➡️ runs on MySQL YouTube: 2.1 billion monthly active users ➡️ runs on MySQL Clearly MySQL doesn't scale :(
A great table on the social consequences of technology, from the introduction to @jean_twenge’s new book:
After Sequoia explain their LLM Stack, now it's @a16z's turn, first pic: a16z sec pic: Sequoia - a16z's version is more programatic, systematic - sequoia's version is more business-driven - they share a lot common LLM tools, like @llama_index @LangChainAI I personally prefer…
When investors ask me what the TAM is:
The greatest Unsolved problems in Modern Physics. A Visual Thread 👇
@HugoHamelcom LemonSqueezy and Paddle are not just payment gateways but merchants of record. They are the intermediaries for your sales. They make payment setup smooth, allow multiple payment methods, manage global VAT, and provide you with subscription management. Lots of value add.
@AlmostMedia I would say it is the opposite in my friend group. Stronger correlation I see tends to be temperament of parents. Consistent, steady parents = well-behaved kids.
Your fear of public speaking isn't because you're dumb. You're a smarty. You just don't know how to organize your thoughts. So when answering questions or presenting ideas, organize them like this: Name it Explain it Prove it Conclude it Let's quickly walk through each 👇
@AlmostMedia Because liberal people don’t believe in hierarchical structures.
@AlmostMedia Authoritarian parenting styles are more common in conservative circles Prioritizies creating well socialized & obedient children. Tbh probably reinforces & correlates with conservative thinking styles On the flip side you have liberals who often lean too far into permissive
One of the most valuable skills: Learning to suffer in silence. 99.9% of our problems aren't real.
I'll let you in on a little secret: Much of success/happiness comes from anti-goals: consequences you want to avoid like costly divorces, poor health, and reckless behavior like killing someone while drag racing. Take care of the anti-goals and you've won half the game.
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6. Engage with commenters. 7. See which posts get the most engagement and look for frequently asked questions. 8. Create an article based on those, and repeat. In short:
Anddd it's on youtube:
The foll. are highly correlated: - No.of people drowned in a pool & nuclear power generated - per capita cheese consumption & civil engg doctorates 🙃 A reminder on how machine only models without sensible, experienced human overlay can go horribly wrong
This is worth reading. In my experience, winning strategies are not just about a group of differentiated strengths, but of deliberate, intentional "weaknesses".
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One of the finest interviews, I have ever seen of Vijay Kedia ji. Got to learn about his life, thought process & anecdotes. Rahul @rahulgoel477 - Superb questions. 80 min of awesomeness @VijayKedia1 ji Sharing for my audience. #FI
“Oratory doesn't need to have any knowledge of the state of their subject matters; it only needs to have discovered some device to produce persuasion in order to make itself appear to those who don't have knowledge that it knows more than those who actually have it.”
In Plato’s Gorgias, he differentiates between philosophy and rhetoric: the former deals with Truth, the latter with presentation (either “innocent entertainment or malicious duplicity”).
1. The Law of Big Numbers Lynch didn't go for big bets and a concentrated portfolio. He built an enormous portfolio with hundreds of stocks, while maintaining to look for quality. Because of the many positions, he was okay with many of his ideas to fail.
How to spot high agency people: 1. Weird teenage hobbies - Teenage years are the hardest time to go against social pressures. If they can go against the crowd as a teenager, they can go against the crowd as an adult. 2. Golden question - If you're in a 3rd world prison cell and…
Whatever bad faith arguments you see on Twitter today, Schopenhauer already thought of how to use them 115 years ago as part of his 38 Stratagems to unfairly win an argument. Twitter is powered by Stratagems 2, 3, and 22, along with a bit of Strategy 16.
Fathers: What’s the single best piece of fatherly advice you have either given or received?
Yo, it's not the vaccines causing your autism, it's the glyphosate (RoundUp) used on all our crops, especially wheat:
Should be mandatory viewing at the WhatsApp Uncles Re-education Tutorial!
WHAT SHOULD WE DO IN THE US? Find a physical sunscreen product of at least SPF 30+ that you dislike least, and make a habit of applying it. Every little helps, even if you don't cake it on. For those with skin of color, TINTED sunscreens are a game-changer for blending.