I use Twitter as a commonplace note: https://t.co/vPr6DeA0d4 CTO In Sales • Homeschooling dad Building @siteaudittools & @thoughttonote
Founder/Go-to-Market Fit: If primary GTM is bottom-up, founder needs to be great at product. If primary GTM is inbound, founder needs to be great at marketing. If primary GTM is outbound, founder needs to be great at sales.
To live is to struggle. No one can do that alone. Thanks @jsparkblog for reminding us today. Every heart has a tear that others know nothing about. Let us support others in their journey.
In the 1940s, the CIA’s predecessor wrote a field manual on how to sabotage enemy organizations. Many of these are routine practices at institutions/organizations & amount to inadvertent self-sabotage. #MedTwitter #PhysicianBurnout cc @MedicineForward
@jjude Well, personally I prefer to have employees who work out of the office. It could be free community work , self learning or questionably working on up-work. It basically ensure that the resource would have razor sharp skill-sets as well as knowledge of latest trends.
What you are seeing out there is reality. Not negativity. The need of the hour is compassion. Not positivity.
If you gave 100 Rs to Congress to build a car, they will pocket 40 and use 60 to build a car. If you gave BJP 100 Rs to build a car, they will pocket 80 and use the remaining 20 to market a car that Congress already built before them as their own. PS: Oldie but goldie.
@jjude Great insights boss, Loved it ! One question, why not be like Google. Give some service for Free or almost free, learn user's behavior, optimize the solution/product and then charge reasonable amount and hope to get volumes ?
20 practical copywriting exercises to think and write like a pro 🧵:
′′ The country does not run with the width of the chest and the length of the tongue, the country runs with the depth of the mind, with the cleanliness of the heart and the height of thoughts! ′′🙏
Popper: problem = a conflict between 2 (or more) ideas @fortelabs’ Building a Second Brain has an exercise: write your 12 favourite problems. In BASB, they’re more open questions than problems. Wondering what this list would look like if it used Popper’s concept of problems 💭
QOTD: "When the power failed all the time, we got inverters. When the water was bad, we got ROs in the kitchen. When the public education was sub-standard, we all went to private school. When the govt hospitals were bad, we went to Fortis and Apollo. We never demanded change."
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Just finished 2nd cover to cover reading of Sovereign Individual. It seems more relevant today than it was 2.5 years ago when I read it for the first time. ( H/T to @balajis for the recommendation). A 🧵 on key learnings from the book
The “Protestant work ethic” was the reason given by Weber on why Protestant regions of Europe were historically wealthier than Catholic ones. This paper shows that the Protestant edge was not work ethic, but due to historically higher literacy since they needed to read the Bible!
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It's a launch day! 🚀🚀 I'm thrilled to announce my first product and it's called MOOQ(@mooqhq) It'll help creators to create their own content library or we can say it as linktree for content. 👇 A thread 🧵 #buildinpublic
Most of the true problems in finance theory are conceptual not computational
Free speech is between you and the state, its not between you and me, you and me don't even have a social contract. Feel free to unfollow, mute me if you don't like my views
🇮🇳🇨🇳 #Thread This is how the US gives a spin to events routinely to tarnish the image of China. And the geopolitically naive Indian media and public lap it up due to the prevailing anti-China confirmation bias. Let me break it down in a 12-point #explainer: 1/16
I've spent a few weeks editing this report for release. Please do read. What do techies think of privacy for the users of their software? There is good news and bad news. TL;DR: Good news: privacy matters. We get it. We're affected too. Bad news: no clue what to do though.
I normally don't use Twitter much these days, forget early in the morning like now, but here goes. The news coming out of India is thoroughly depressing. How did this country go from being a medical success story to a catastrophe of unprecedented proportions? Thread.
One thing I hear repeated (and still believe a lot of the time) is the idea that Asians are quiet & submissive. But that’s from 1) westernized media to paint the weaponized “model minority” myth, & 2) toxic parts of Asian subculture that are NOT the good in Asian heritage.
When faced with a problem that is playing on your mind. We could say that something is trying to surface or resolve. I have put together a list of questions to answer that may help you reach a resolution.
"The best learners are the people who push through the discomfort of being objectively bad at something." – Tommy Collison
All successful investors have two things in common. They are extremely disciplined and they understand the downside of their investments even more than the upside. A big part of winning big is only losing small.
@jjude @1writerapp I use Drafts app just for capturing. I capture my thoughts which forwards to Evernote Inbox. From there I bring it to Obsidian.
Imagine if schools taught kids about inflows, outflows, feedback loops, lags, and other systems traits. I presume most still don’t, right?
Many who voted for the BJP thinking Muslims will be shown their place have today realised that everyone is in the same place, that is, without oxygen, ICU beds or medical care. Next time vote for governance and not bigotry!
Don’t be misled—US is not withholding raw materials for any current vaccine in India. “Covishield” (aka AstraZeneca) is not affected. The raw material shortage only affects “Covovax” (Novavax) which has not yet been approved anyway. #COVID19 #CovidIndia
Twitter tech stack: • Idea capture: @drafts • Tweet writing: @roamresearch • Thread writing: @hypefury • Analytics: Ilo from @dr Twitter workflow: • Threads 3x per week • Reflection questions 5x per week • Idea validation tweets 15x per week
Lead with action. Follow with words.
I had read some of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Notes on Grief, last year when it came out in The Newyorker. Would highly recommend reading it (although I've not finished it, but plan to) 3/
The COVID-19 crisis in India can also be a case study of what can happen to a state when a large section of the ‘free press’ engages in blind cheer leading instead of critical reportage and analysis. The perception or the image is seen as the reality until reality bites.
I focused on building new, deep and unexpected relationships this past year. I joined a few communities of varying sizes from 20 to 2,000+. Within those communities, I found my tribe. Read more 👇👇
.@Naval Ravikant suggests the best people in any industry are artists because they’re “someone who’s doing it for its own sake, who loves the craft, who just enjoys what they’re doing."
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Learned 5 cool lessons today about messaging and marketing for CBC's in a conversation with @BillyBroas. 1. Painkiller Copy 2. Fishing Holes 3. Unscalable Conversations 4. Tiny Bets and Order of Operations 5. The System Above the Tactics 👇🏼 Thread
#COVID19 has become a public health crisis in #India leading to a collapse of the healthcare system @paimadhu @zchagla and myself developed this infographic (w/help from @drjoelklinton) with tips to advise people on how to care for themselves at home. Please share!
Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention. 🧠
A thread on dialogue and the art of conversation - reflections on over 2,500 interviews in 7+ years. Over years of practice we have been heavily influenced by the work of physicist David Bohm on the subject, and his book On Dialogue 1/12
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow applied to course creation: • Control - allow students to manage themselves vs. get managed by others. • Collaboration - allow students to connect with one another. • Content - give students the ability to choose their work.
Since a lot of us are trying to amplify SOS calls in this silent-apocalypse mutating around us in India, am sharing some tips from personal experiences on: a) How to seek help with clarity. (Clarity helps better reach & response.) b) How to offer leads effectively. (Thread)
This has helped me and my family a lot in this difficult time and hence sharing what has worked for me Speak to @vardhman9 for more guidance.
Lastly, when defining the product or its features, use Amazon's 5Qs framework: 1) Who is the customer? 2) What is the problem/opportunity? 3) What is the main customer benefit? 4) How do you know customers want this? 5) What is the customer experience? (source: @usamanaseem) ~
First, maintain all precautions that we know help. These include masks (whenever you are not at home and not alone), physical distancing to the extent possible, and washing hands frequently. The 3 Ws – Wear a mask, Watch your distance, Wash your hands.
"Other countries follow evidence-based policy making; in India we have policy-based evidence making." Hahaha 😭
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No one should suffer. But the bad decisions and irresponsibility of some impacts everyone- particularly the vulnerable- during a pandemic. It feels crazy to even have to say this after an entire year.
“Hire someone for the work that annoys you most. Repeat until you enjoy all the work you do.” -@arvidkahl, on Zero To Sold It seems so obvious now that I have already heard it. 🤦🏾♂️