Joseph Jude

Not those misguided souls who tell guys they need to beat their chests & jump up&down on their foes Yeah, become incredibly good at the things you do (if that's what you want). Be bold & ambitious & determined. But be kind & generous to all around you. No matter what your gender

Some personal observations on the characteristics of people I know who are continuing to take as much care as possible to not get Covid (in no particular order): a short 🧵 1. High impulse control 2. Personal experience of serious illness 3. Strong internal locus of control

Most wealth inequality is driven by windfall gains, not by income inequality.

@PaperProfits_tw Yep, the numbers don’t lie. Plus having more free time to work on other projects is great.

#PonniyinSelvan novel is famous for its characters, history and plot twists. Did you know that its geographical descriptions are accurate? Come, let us travel along Vandhiyathevan to retrace the hero's journey in modern day Tamilnadu, with google map links and images! (A thread)

Amul is India’s most LOVED brand! It earns INR 61,000 Cr revenue ⇒ 1.2x the combined revenue of Nestle, Britannia, Godrej & Dabur! But advertising spend for, 1. Top FMCG brands: 8-15% of revenue 2. Amul: 1% of revenue 🤯 Learn how to buildd your startup’s brand from Amul 🧵

Fast way to get Reddit data: Do a SparkToro search to find: • Popular Subreddits in your audience • Words they use in Reddit comments Example: People who talk about Taylor Swift... Are really into Taylor Swift. 😜 They're also into Harry Potter, Euphoria, & Olivia Rodrigo.

1/ The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) for real-time transactions in India is a good case study for other nations in the payment space.

ULTIMATE DISTRIBUTION THREAD 20 of my favorite distribution channels & tactics for spreading B2B content after hitting publish. These are great techniques for brands who realize the job isn’t over when you hit publish. Dive in, drink coffee, ask questions, & add your own.

Then the iPhone killed Flash. Chrome also played a big part in that. That $20B Figma acquisition looks like paying a technical debt for choosing Flash. Maybe the biggest software product/tech debt payback in history.

How to identify the right product to sell

Simplicity sells. People like simple. People are willing to pay for simple. If you want to make lots of money in your career, spend time making things simple. Experts simplify. Con artists complicate.

Stable Diffusion is only 30 days old… a MEGA THREAD 🧵 on its rapid rise.

@allenholub This echoes something I heard from @jonathanstark: "deadlines don't keep projects on track, communication does"

The original Georgists.

Charity is not only in the form of money or materials. It can be in the form of knowledge; giving time to someone; sharing good will; saying a few kind words etc. Charity is using what we have for the welfare of others.

With each passing day, I feel prouder of the Indian creativity thanks to videos like these - What a video 😂😂😂

Dear sanghis who keep calling all Christians as ricebag converts, If Hindus can be converted to another religion just by offering a bag of rice, it means that Hindu religion is more crap than INC party. Leaders from INC are taking crores of rupees to switch allegiance to BJP. 🤣

Kumar: Everyday we're taught Ramayana and told what happened to Shambuka, Eklavya, Karna- what did they do, except being born in low caste? They were denied education. Therefore, 23 and 24 liberated them from clutches of landlords, upper castes. #EWS #SupremeCourtOfIndia

An example of architecture from every single country in the world, in alphabetical order. Starting with Afghanistan's Minaret of Jam. 1/196

Over the last 12 months, I tested 30+ SEO tools end-to-end. Here are 9 FREE SEO tools to market & supercharge your startup! Try & share with others 🧵

In 1834, when a Christian missionary arrived in Northern New Zealand to work with the Māori tribes, he saw their women using a seemingly ordinary pot to boil potatoes. This pot extraordinarily links New Zealand & Tamil Nadu, though the two lands are over 11k kms apart. A 🧵1/11

Most storytelling advice sucks. So I crowdsourced tips from actual experts – Rowling, Nolan, and Jobs. Here are 10 dead-simple tips to become a better storyteller:

@devongovett My thoughts exactly! While building the npm package bundler for @ReflameApp, I discovered a little known flag in npm --prefer-dedupe that adjusts the resolution algorithm to prefer deduping packages instead of greedily resolving to the latest version:

17 life skills every parent must teach their kids before they leave home:

Good marketers copy. Great marketers steal. Here are some of the best marketing strategies of the last 10 years that you can steal from to drive growth:

Happy to be able to announce that my A Plan is Not a Strategy video has passed the 1 million view mark. #strategy

Back in 1980, the political theorist Langdon Winner (@langdonw) published a journal article titled ‘Do Artifacts Have politics?’ As one of most influential academic papers ever, it’s been cited by 1000s, and is mandatory reading if you work in society, politics, and technology.

Good thread on Bengaluru urban governance. Every piece of governance, public artifact is political; acts of commission, omission. Why some places have pavements, drainage isn’t built in slums, spend huge sums on Metro, refuse to buy buses. Here’s a movie recommendation (1/2)

#BharatJodoYatra பாதயாத்திரை பலன் அளிக்குமா? Full video:

I’ve seen an increase in the New Hire SMS Phish attack method recently: - new hire starts at org, they or the org announce new role on LinkedIn - attacker looks up new hire’s phone number on data brokerage sites - sends SMS phish pretending to be Exec to new hire in first month

A bigger testament to who Bose revered is from the naming of the INA brigades: Gandhi, Nehru, Azad and himself. A man who had every reason to be furious with Gandhi for sabotaging his democratically won Congress presidency …

Taking bold actions is constrained by our imagination. Our ability to imagine possibilities is constrained by our worldview. Our worldview is constrained by the stories we tell ourselves. The stories we tell ourselves are constrained by the experiences we have. So what?

@jjude Close to the nature

@josephineejoyce @jjude From your clan - anything and everything is amazing 🤩

What's a good (free/nominal cost) source for historical p/e and p/b ratios and constituents of index for the last decade?

2️⃣0️⃣ - Netflix documentaries to deepen your understanding of life: 1. Seaspiracy.

Has anyone watched @ptrmadurai interviewed by Karan Thapar on the Wire? One can write a book out of that discussion Let me quote some gems ✨️

20 marketing books to read instead of taking up courses. THREAD 🧵

@jjude @itsprasa @jackbutcher Great article! ✨

Two traits most highly correlated with success: 1. Grit 2. Self-control: "the capacity to regulate attention, emotion, and behavior in the presence of temptation." Grit is glorified - but locking up self-control is rarely discussed, the hardest work, & has the biggest payoff.

Please continue to smoke 1. The cigarette companies will benefit 2. If you get a heart attack or cancer or lung disease the hospitals will make profit 3. Govt gets tax money on Cigarettes 4. If you die, family will get insurance money Dark as it may sound.. #smokingkills

I just updated excalidraw-animate! If you are an @Excalidraw user who has never tried this tool, please give it a try, it must be fun at least. An example 👇

Compete Make them participate in competitions. They will not win every time. But they will become comfortable with failure. Fear of failure is a bigger hindrance in success than failure. 4/n

It is just a matter of time before this is going to be happen here: 1. Phone hacked and image planted. 2. Gets backed-up to G-Drive. 3. Gets Scanned by Photo DNA and notified to Child Protection. 4. Arrested under POSCO.

A List of Things People Blamed on Bicycles 🧵

Found a Linkedin viral post generator and it's already my favorite part of the week lol

Who could possibly have predicted that this would happen.

📣 Request for examples 📣 Mini apps and bits of software you’ve built just for yourself and/or friends and family. Things that don’t scale, aren’t meant for others to use, & valuable just for your specific, snowflake use case. Ideally custom built, but could be jerry-rigged