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3. Pause When the person finishes, pause. You can easily take 3-5 seconds and sometimes more before responding. Why? Shows thoughtfulness and that you paid attention. Win-win.

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." - Walter Elliot

if you say you're ambitious, but you don't have a body of work you can point at, you should STFU and build the body of work first. even if it's a bunch of notes and drafts and crappy prototypes or whatever. code your apps, write your plays and poems. I will die on this hill.

Marketing is harder than ever Wanna quickly figure out what works with buyers? You don’t need to spend 100s of hours doing research There are only 4 questions you *really* need to answer to get started If you can these Qs, coming up with smart marketing ideas feels easy 🧵

@designcoursecom in this scenario the blog owner is selling you and your attention to the ad companies. They are not selling their content to you. You stroll in to consume some content and now every other website you ever visited and ever will visit knows what content you’ve consumed. Thoughts?

Here is what a multi-bagger looks like over several years: $1 $2 $2 $3 $2 $3 $4 $6 $6 $12 $1 to $12 in 10 years. A 28% CAGR. Easy peasy.

10 No-Code tools to help build your next startup A thread 🧵 👇

For a more detailed treatment of the concepts, check out @craigburgess wonderful tutorial!

Recently I turned a YouTube video with 100k views in the first day (poor performer) to 3m+ views within a week Only thing we changed? The thumbnail. Here are some tips for making clickable thumbnails 👇🧠

What's the best book on writing that you've read?

The authorship of Savarkar's 1926 biography remains contentious. Vikram Sampath makes a stunning revelation, quotes C Rajagopalachari acknowledging that he had "penned" the "biography". NOTE THIS: The person Gandhi called his conscience-keeper wrote Savarkar's biography. +

In product-led SaaS: Product Management’s main job is to make it easy for the User to say Yes. Product Marketing’s main job is make it difficult for the Buyer to say No. Sales’ main job is to monetize by overcoming Customer inertia. via @shreyas

Next set of tools: acquired ✅ @zapier for automations (duh!) @airtable for data management @outseta for memberships @sendbluedotco for text messages Shoutout @GeoffTRoberts and @nikita_builds for building dope platforms that make this possible ❤️

What is a spiky point of view? It’s a perspective others can disagree with. A belief you feel strongly about and are willing to advocate for. Your thesis about topics in your realm of expertise.

At 38, David Ogilvy was unemployed and hadn't written a word of copy. Three years later, he was the most famous copywriter in the advertising industry. And became known as the Father of Advertising. Here are 7 tips from the legendary copywriter 🧵

The web is an amazing place. If you know where to look... 8 of the best free resources you should be aware of. (But probably aren't) 🧵

Great article. In my experience, finding your “why” is more important for you than for your customer.

Please. Let's not start with your "why." -- contrarian marketing common sense from @markwschaefer

It's amazing how @terguy published his online learning model 10 years ago & it's still relevant today despite the fast pace of edtech - such a solid framework 👇

@stephsmithio One of my favs: Making a habit of doing things for my future self. Like, wash dishes before leaving the house, keeping things tidy and organised. Nothing like coming home and being grateful for what my past self did for me.

What are some 80/20 changes that you've made in your life? Ie: habits you've implemented, beliefs you've adopted, products you've bought that have had an outsized impact

Love it. Let me caption this 👇

In April, we launched Business Breakdowns to dive deep into a single company with investors and operators that know it best. 30 businesses in, let’s recap what we’ve found.

Gandhi asked Savarkar to file a mercy petition which Savarkar obeyed & then somehow ended up as the prime accused in Gandhi’s murder. Makes total sense.

Building a Twitter audience is NOT easy It needs patience, dedication, and expert tricks: Here is a list of 16 threads that have the best tricks for: 1. Growing your Twitter audience 2. Mastering Twitter threads 3. Mastering Twitter DMs 4. Other Twitter hacks //thread//

"Should I only do $10k (high-leverage, high-skill) work?" Absolutely not. You need to respond to emails, make sure Asana's updated and get on the phone with that high-$ prospect. You need a "portfolio approach." ht @goeringm

It is not more answers we need, but better questions. It is not more action we need, but deeper reflection. It is not more technology we need, but greater aspirations. It is not more knowledge we need, but greater wisdom.

Listen and be open, but don’t let anybody tell you who you are. This was just one of the many stories telling us all the ways we were going to fail. Today, Amazon is one of the world’s most successful companies and has revolutionized two entirely different industries.

@jjude @aurasky_ Agreed. Would rather call it 'ethical copying' with characteristics: -copying only for the sake of learning -ideally not share copied work widely -give due credits if work shared widely - ideally don't copy if the work is legally copyrighted - intention to evolve your own style

The Twitter header photo is the most underutilized asset I’ve followed many within seconds - solely due to their banner I realized, I am losing opportunities without a customized header photo Put your header photo to work! Here are 7 banners I learnt from to create mine...🧵

Are you thinking about switching to Revue, just to be able to use the Twitter newsletter subscription box? Don't! Here's how to connect almost any newsletter service to that box - using @zapier Works with @Mailchimp @ConvertKit @MailerLite

The education system isn’t broken. That's just your excuse. Here’s how I know 🧵

If you want to found a successful business you have to understand the HUMANS. Real-world conversations are the key to SUCCESS.

Alberto Ríos is one of my favorite poets.

In a first in a decade, @NPCI_NPCI admits that various kinds of frauds are possible on #AePS #Aadhaar

I want to cry every time I check the online communities I joined this time last year. Most of them are now barren wastelands. Some thoughts on why online communities fail... 🧶

The Digital Sky Map which shows the areas we can fly drones without permissions and with permissions have been released by @DGCAIndia. This is as per the new drone rules

We had a great chat with @ness_labs members about learning in public. The main barriers were: (1) Fear of judgement: when you feel like you suck too much & don't want to pain people with your current skills level Example: are you confident enough to learn how to sing in public?

That the best new products ultimately take us back to the way things once were, but w/ more scale and efficiency. They provide a sensation from the past for the modern world (cities, travel, remote working..) To create for the future, mine the parts of the past that we long for.

“Trust is a peculiar resource; it is built rather than depleted by use.” - Travis Bradberry #QOTD #Trust #Leadership

Most money advice sucks. So I crowdsourced the best from 14.8 million people on Reddit. Here're 10 money tips to help you build generational wealth:

10 Proven Methods to Go Viral Copy and paste these templates to gain 1000s of followers //thread//

@ProfGoat For any skill, one can think of a use for it. But broadly speaking, introducing stressful situations based on artificial time constraints is in opposition to the teaching goal.

Craft It's less popular than Notion and definitely lacks some of Notion's database features, but UX/UI-wise, Craft is definitely my favorite document tool. @craftdocsapp

Everyone struggles with presenting Especially course creators, so @RobbieCrab threw down a gauntlet to my students ~ Be a Performer and a Professor ~ Here's how:

The advice that you need to simply stay out of people’s way assumes those people always have the skills, maturity and organizational context to make the right choice for themselves and the company. This is a BIG assumption.

Struggling to connect on your remote team? We've built a 67 person remote team that loves to work together while driving $29 million in annual revenue. Here are 8 ideas we use for building a great culture in a distributed team: 💻🌐

To quote @sweatystartup, “The real winners are like water. Changing course when a path of least resistance becomes available. They’re opportunist. They quit when the odds suck. And double down when the odds are good.” For creative people, the odds have never been better.

I have always liked this matrix that @PTetlock developed. Applies the stages of skill acquisition to key aspects of judgment. From our report in 2013, "Cultivating Your Judgment Skills."

@ArseneCapital @PTetlock @MJBaldBard did an amazing job of this: