@GuruAnaerobic @joserosado Charge less when you're tinkering, exploring, and fishing for your first small wins. Charge more when you're optimizing, exploiting, and building on existing wins.
All these books were meaningful and powerful in their own way, none more important than @vinodkapri’s ‘1232 km’ – a tragic yet heartwarming chronicle of one of the most important events of our times, written with a great immersive empathy.
Thread: Rani's story and that of Thoothukudi's Salt Pans. I reported this for @PARInetwork and my incredibly talented colleague @MPalani17304893 shot the pics and videos. Do read. Meeting Rani & her friends was moving and humbling. We all eat salt. Here's how it is made:
"...people in motion tend to eventually find success" - @mijustin great @IndieHackers interview
@sreenshri @MrsGandhi @bhupeshbaghel So when newspaper attributed kolkata highway to Rising UP advert, it was newspaper's fault, but here it is the fault of party issuing the advert...
If you use it right, the internet is the most powerful tool in human history. But most people aren't using it to its full potential. Luckily, there's now a Twitter thread with advanced tips for every internet tool - using this exact hook. Here's the 10 best of them:
@jjude @GrayCellTech Thank you for joining in. Brilliant video by the boys
Prediction: Within our life times, we will see home ownership, city maintenance becoming fully privatised. Big companies will build cities, houses (flats) and will do all the maintenance. Everyone will only pay rent and none will/could buy.
NFT up on @withFND. 1/1 Get it!
Women Icon we need ! In 1959 She founded LIJJAT PAPAD with just ₹ 80 in hand as investment. Today her turnover is 1810 crore & She employs 46,500 women with average salary of ₹12-15,000 per month which goes upto 25,000 . This is Padmasri Jaswantiben.She is 93 🙏
Media: #Bitcoin is dead. #Bitcoin: Every single time.
Why the Large and Midcap Index is a good choice for the core portfolio. At the risk return sweet spot. A comparison of rolling returns.
“Change your plans, give up secrecy, eschew communal conflict, respect the Constitution of India, show your loyalty to the Flag and make us believe that we can trust your words. To say one thing and to do another is a game which will not do." - Sardar Patel to RSS, on Feb 1949.
A terrorist is one who attacks innocents and civilians for a political purpose, whatever the weapon. Terrorism is defined not by cause or weapon but by method and target. #terrorism
1/ There's a well known anecdote from The Everything Store about Jeff Bezos visiting Harvard Business School in 1997. The students told Bezos "you really need to sell to Barnes and Noble and get out now" Less well known: you can read the actual 1997 HBS case study from the class
Looking to learn more about how I use listening and cognitive empathy in qualitative research? The recorded version of my course, Listening Deeply, is now available through my website. Find out more and sign up here:
What kind of courses do you enjoy enrolling into? What works best for you?
Made a few improvements: - Added a section "Do Good" so that it feels less narcissistic/self-indulging - Life-stage (age) slider is now persisted in localStorage Try it here & suggest improvements. Note: your data is NEVER sent to the server:
Enjoyed the interaction with @iancassel. thank you @in_morningstar. The conversation was based on some of my favourite tweets of Ian. You can see them from here:
IPOs are stacked against average investors. It is the dumbest thing to do. Even institutional investors must be exceptionally dumb to buy the IPOs. - Sanjoy Bhattacharya
Every important part of life is going digital. Work --> from factories to laptops. boardrooms to zooms. Friends --> from neighbors to followers. Where do you find like minded people? Twitter. Reddit. etc. Games --> more kids play fortnite than basketball & football combined.
This is an unconditional apology issued by Mr Vinod Rai to @sanjaynirupam for false allegations against him in the alleged Coal & 2 G Scam cases. Doesn't he owe an apology to the nation for his wrong calculations & going to town with them causing havoc in both the sectors?
I built 50+ projects in the last 2 years, some of them profitable, most of them not. Here are 12 of my go-to SaaS tools that I use to move faster (and make my life easier)
Creativity is a process: - Become sensitive to problems, deficiencies, disharmonies, gaps - Identify the difficulty - Search for solutions - Make guesses / formulate hypotheses about deficiencies - Test + re-test hypotheses, possibly modify + re-test - Communicate the results
Indian Badminton stars Srikanth Kadambi and Ashwini Ponnappa visited a local badminton club disguised as an Old Couple. Watch the video to see what happened next ! This is bound to bring a smile on your face
Assets make you rich. Liabilities make you look rich.
I keep saying that the rule of law does not exist for the vast majority of our country. That is an understatement. As @virsanghvi points out, it exists for no one. Fine piece:
@jjude @IAmElijas @GravitasWins @anujmagazine @shikhilsharma You are KILLING it Joseph!
Avoid slides or sections with titles like “Team” or “Growth” That’s neither an assertion nor evidence. It’s just a passive word and doesn’t convey anything that furthers the story you want to tell.
My no#1 early stage founder tip: Your startup is dead by default (to people who have millions of things going in their lives) It is your job daily to resurrect it & make it worth remembering by telling stories, building in public, offering value etc
The chilling effect on the nation lies precisely there, the intended message is this: The most expensive lawyers, an almost entirely arbitrary case, will not help you if the BJP's creamy layer goes against you.
Amazon FBA Explained
Leadership is hard. One of the hardest parts is delegation. How much guidance do you give? When do you do it yourself? When/How to track others to-dos? As a young leader, I wish I had a cheat sheet for delegation. So I wrote one. Read this 🧵 to accelerate your career:
Top 15 Debt-Free Companies #Stocks 1) Infosys (IT) 2) Eicher Motors (Auto) 3) ITC (FMCG) 4) HDFC Life (Banking 5) L&T 6) Tech Mahindra 7)Abbot India 8) P&G Ltd 9)TCS 10) Asian Paint 11)Coal India 12) Hindustan Unilever 13) Voltas Ltd 14) IRCTC Ltd 15) Marico Ltd
It's me 🤖 Feel free to contribute or create your own bots! #golang Author: @ezeoleaf
Want to know the process of creating your own ebook? - Open up Google Docs - Write up a solution to a problem - Convert to PDF - Design ebook cover on Canva - Publish on Gumroad - Promote on Twitter Move on to the next ebook and you'll become unstoppable Enjoy your new life
Reminder- One day they will come for you.
@jjude @airtelindia 1. Codespaces 2. 3. 4.
Clients aren't attracted by success stories but by war stories. Don't tell me you achieved 200% growth in traffic for a customer. Tell me the potholes you fell into & wrong decisions you made. Don't make up war stories; but don't hide them either.
Hey! I just took the money personality test by @mysaltapp. Turns out I’m an Okay Olive! The result is spookily accurate. Take the test. (You’ll be in the draw for an Apple Watch too) ✌️
CapRover is a fantastic Docker-based PaaS and can save a bunch of $$ over Heroku. Check out this 👇 bounty for a fun weekend hacking project. Also, @FOSSHack is happening on 13th/14th Nov with great prizes lined up. Spread the word!
Email from @david_perell to @tylercowen ✅ Personalized ✅ Social Proof ✅ Clear CTA Amazing email (that led to some amazing things). The personal touches at the beginning show clear effort. Tons of social proof (Neil deGrasse Tyson, Seth Godin). Clear CTA and plan of attack.
Smartest quotes, marketing tools, and psychological business tricks. 🧵 My 10 favorite tweets of the week:
Carl Sagan’s ‘Cosmic Calendar’ puts things into perspective. He compresses all of history into a single calendar year. •Milky Way comes together in March •Sun and planets in August •First organism in November •First vertebrates on December 17
@jjude @arvidkahl @GravitasWins Here is what I’m building @decentrafile
Rule of thumb: avoid parenting advice that directly addresses behaviors. See what's underneath the behavior. ("Why are they acting this way?") Getting rid of a behavior is possible (eg. via punishment) but it doesn't build self-awareness. Address the emotion, not the behavior.
These days, I’m pretty good at writing computer programs. It was not always so. When I was starting out, there were years when I had to give up on projects I wanted to do since I couldn’t make the software work. 1/
Costco is the world's 3rd largest retailer by sales, notching $190B+ annually (behind Amazon, Walmart). The company is all about "value" and uses psychological hacks in its business model and store design to get shoppers to spend dough. Here are 14 of them 🧵
I feel like we made something good #reddit #roicai
