Joseph Jude

Complicating things will slow you down on the road of success. Simplification will accelerate results.

@jspector The greats grow thru mediocrity but don’t stay there Rookies want to skip the steps and head to the final phase

More schools need to do this: 1) Yale: 2) Harvard: 3) MIT: People are paying tens of thousands of dollars for these courses, while you can enroll for free. RT and share with your friends!!

This is a stunner on fuel prices. 2014: Tax was ₹9:48per litre. Centre-State share ration was 68:32 2021: Tax is ₹32.9 per litre out of which Centre retains ₹32.33. Centre-State ratio is 98:02 Big squeeze in citizens with little returns to the State.

Leadership language means three things. 1. Use "us" and "we" language with the story 2. Use "you" language when celebrating wins 3. Use "I" language when owning mistakes The first inspires. The second motivates. The third breeds loyalty.

‘They jabber, we jab. They dither, we deliver. They vacillate, we vaccinate.’ ✅Rule of three ✅Contrast ✅Rhyme #Rhetoric #Speechwriting #PMQs

@jjude "Honking" is a good way to think about building in public. You might think there is only 1 way to honk but there are so many. Light tap = Yo Tap = Hi Double honk = hi ya! Full Honk = outta the way

Creating consistently for yourself is hard. But so is going to job you don't like for years at a time. One has finite upside, the other has infinite upside. Go make something.

The correct answer is 5000. Why? Because 500 is the sunk cost (past) whereas the opportunity cost (present) is 5000 - you choose to not sell the wine for 5000 and use that money for other purposes. Lesson: Opportunity costs are more relevant than sunk costs.

GROW coaching model

What’s your personal elevator pitch?

Ok Bhakts calm down -Great that 80 lac ppl got vaccinated yesterday. Let’s keep up the drive -Stop hailing Modi. we are too late and have lost lives -17.2 Crore children were vaccinated for Polio in a single day(2011). Manmohan didn’t issue any memos that he be applauded

Chronology: 1. RaGa holds a PC and makes suggestions on Covid Management. 2. Ministers will hold a PC to troll RaGa and his suggestions. 3. Bureaucrats will silently study and implement the suggestions. 4. Modi will do a Mann Ki Baat and pass off the ideas as his own.

"Highly connected individuals possess outsized influence, and it is unlikely that their centrality is solely related to being a producer of higher-quality information."

I've recently fallen in love with cohort-based learning and think it's gonna dominate the world of online education in 10 years. Here's a recap thread inspired by @wes_kao's recent essay posted at @a16z on how cohorts are replacing content. 🧵

The first limb of Yoga, Yama Has 5 components: Of these, the first three are: 1. Ahimsa : nonviolence; individual or of state. No hurting people 2. Satya: truthfulness; entails Accountability, no gaslighting, 3. Asteya: non-stealing; stealing arises out of inferiority complex

Don't take feedback from Tom, Dick and Harry ....

Exactly…

"Being nice counts the most when you are nice to people ignored by others." - Nassim Taleb

Thread #RealGujaratModel Part-1 For the interested, here are few specimen/paper clippings from #gujaratscrapbook. How the 'model' was projected and how it was a sham from the beginning. The trailer of a pathetic & dark farce released nationally later on. Pl feel free to share.

Heard a powerful statement from someone today: Responsibility is never given, it has to be taken. If someone gives it to you, it’s not responsibility, it’s a duty. Duty doesn’t empower, only responsibility empowers.

The 7 psychology principles responsible for +20% MRR growth for our clients: 1. Commitment & Consistency 2. Progressive Disclosure 3. Likeability Principle 4. Zeigarnik Effect 5. IKEA Effect 6. Hick's Law 7. Fitt's Law Use them to improve your onboarding. Find out how: 🧵

👩‍💻 Solo founder? How to make customer support make you more $$$ in the long-run, Rather than just being 'time-consuming' (which might/might not make you more $)

Elephant, MasaiMara. “Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.” – Kristen Butler

Use these 14 threads to build a 7-figure newsletter 🧵

Some have understood the flywheel effect of cross-linking communities, while others are purists for one reason or another. Always explore where a single influential account might lead you.

They are so busy changing the past in India that they have no time to shape the future

"When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny." – Thomas Paine

What are the various patterns for personalizing recommendations and search? I dug into a couple of industry papers/blogs and summarized them into bandits, item embeddings + MLP, sequential models, graphs, and user embeddings.

Now that I’m done writing “How to Live”, I’m listening to music again! Starting with Ted Gioia’s great “Hundred Best Albums of 2020”: — buying them all on Bandcamp.

What technology or trend(s) that you are working on, or close to, is unknown now to most but will be mainstream in 10 years?

5 Things Rich People Do Consistently //THREAD//

Two reasons why this type of tweet always gets so much pushback 1) Mixing domains: Payoff Space vs Consistency Space h/t @PaulSkallas 2) People playing different social class ladder games: Elite vs Gentry h/t @Alex_Danco

If you’re an investor or analyst, 7 Powers is a remarkable lens you can use to analyse companies. But if you’re an operator, the book is a little … weirder. What I mean by this: the path to Power is totally weird and unique, and it’s more important to pay attention to that.

@PankajSinghYa11 Hello, please find the unroll here: In my experience the best founders develop a fighter mentality. Mark… See you soon. 🤖

@jjude My take away. Death is certain. Remind yourself daily, rest will follow suit. Thank you @jjude for organising another stimulating book session.

Union is about strength. Centre is about power.

How to improve your decision-making over time. Take a past decision and ask yourself: 1. What assumptions did I make? 2. What inputs did I use to make those assumptions? 3. Would I make the same decision again given those same inputs?

End of the road for DHFL. DHFL, which was once described as the "Aishwarya Rai of Dalal Street" owing to its cheap valuations & high dividend yield, has come to an inglorious end. There is now no value attributable to the stock & trading will be suspended

What is a brand audit? Been doing a bunch of them lately and has been great so far. But I have put together my own process and would love to know more about how you approach it.

12/ In sum, to write great subject lines: - Experiment often - Keep it short - Keep it simple - Help people make $$ - Assertions > questions - News sells - So do solutions - Conflict is overrated - So are explainers - Don’t make people think too hard

1/ Five Tempting Things You Should Avoid (a thread)

Sometimes I envision myself as a traveler, with a backpack of experience behind me — awe, openness, and a beginner’s mind in front of me, leading me forward into the open rolling hills of the future, filled with sunlight and birds in sloping flight.

1/ Steve Jobs famously said innovation is "saying no to 1000 things" before you say yes. For more than a decade, Apple has used Pablo Picasso's Bull to drive home the lesson. Here's a breakdown 🧵

While I don't agree with him that building an audience is what you should focus on when your goal is to build a business, there are tons of interesting insights in this final part of the book.

Speaking of which, case studies in general would make the book 10x better. And I'm not talking about anecdotes like how Paul Jarvis started Fathom Analytics. It's always easy to find examples that support any point you want to make.

10 incredibly simple tips I wish I knew about building an audience when I first began building in public in 2018: I went from 300 followers to now 14,000+ who trust me 🙏🏼 but I mostly winged it 🤷🏻‍♂️ Let me share my lessons so you don't have to wing it: (a thread 🧵)

@jjude @GlimmerGuy Quoting from the book: A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something—and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.

5 questions to answer if you want more social media followers: 1) Why should someone follow me? 2) What topic(s) will I post about? 3) Am I posting consistently? 4) Is my content easy to consume? 5) Am I updating my content based on what’s working and what’s not?

@anafabrega11 I know the playbook is impossibly simple, but at this point, I've seen enough people do it that I know that it works. 1) Find an important topic you're obsessed with 2) Learn as much as you can about it 3) Become a better writer and publish the best of what you learn online