Joseph Jude

I love the @AliAbdaal formula for YouTube success: 1-2 videos per week for two years. That’s it. Consistency + little improvements compound over time.

Here's why most advice from successful people fails: They have 100x the distribution than you. In most cases, the advice can be boiled down to "become the go-to person for X" How do you become the go-to? Marketing. Distribution wins.

What wellness is marketed as: -Body lotions -Supplements -Fancy juices -Candles -Crystals What wellness ACTUALLY looks like: -Health care coverage -Access to therapy -Walkable cities -Green spaces -Living wages -Paid time off -Physical activity -Close knit communities -Sleep

When on a remote team, it's easy to think things are okay when they are not. This is true on a team level as well as an individual level Our team created a regular stress check-in to do an individual heart (and health) check 💚

The secret to wealth building? A portfolio of small bets. As you go, you double down on winners and cut losses on losers. A thread on wealth creation your financial advisor doesn't want you to read:

Some of my favourite answers to questions I have asked so far. A thread 🧵

10 questions to guide you to make choices to lead a fulfilling life. By @Debbie_Ford

We vaccinated 110 million children over 3 days in Jan 2021 for polio. Even discounting it's an oral vaccine etc, the fact is our public health system has capacity to deliver more than 3.5 million #Covid vaccinations/day. It's a supply issue.

Had an interesting conversation with Siddharth Vaze on The CEO chair about 10 things I wish Indian entrepreneurs did differently.

How to warm up your domain: >> Sign up to 10 newsletters >> Email 5 people every day >> Ask them to reply to your emails >> Configure your DNS records >> Add a signature and profile picture >> Use a software like lemwarm to automate ^^Add to bookmarks^^

Curious about how a company with a $1.6+ trillion market-cap writes persuasive copy? Use these 7 tips to write like an Amazonian 🧵

What makes one business worth more than another to sell? 1) 3+ years in business 2) Tax returns that match your P&L 3) Founder takes a salary 4) Clean financials 5) SOPs, processes and transfer of power process

The best propagandists convince people of a lie not by stating the lie directly, but by making statements that tacitly assume the lie as a premise or corollary. A mistruth deduced in one's own mind is much harder to guard against than one that enters fully formed from elsewhere.

Want to read some great essays? Look no further! These are the best atomic essays I read this week. Enjoy 👇👇👇

"If you commit and then work on it, clarity will emerge. If you wait for clarity to emerge to commit, it will never happen". - Shashank Mehta, @wholetruthfood

"Sometimes, the things you think are adding value actually subtract from it. Too much ketchup ruins the fries."

Why cohort-based courses works? Thread👇🏽: I have been part of the @10kdesigners community for almost 1 year and I have observed that: Proximity has a powerful effect on our behavior we pick up habits from the people around us. 1/

Best hack to 10x your network: Don’t try to get invited to the party, host your own.

Good ideas require dynamic context switching. Screen, to paper, to mind, and back again. Try not to get stuck in one place.

Which is better: CBC or Evergreen for online courses? This is a false narrative It's not either-or There is an entire spectrum in between Let's settle this debate then, shall we?

Looking to take your convo game to the next level? 🎙️ I’ve interviewed over 200 of the highest performers in the world - @jamesclear @jspector @annieduke @austinkleon - so I know what makes a good guest. These are my 5 favorite techniques for having a damn good conversation! 👇

India has shipped these vaccines because a)the vaccine was funded in part by the US govt, b)risk underwritten by Gates foundation, c)SII has a contractual obligation with COVAX to produce AZ for poor countries. The US has no such obligation to export its vaccines. So just stop.

100,000 followers. Wow. I remember the first 100. Let's turn back the clock. Here's the 7 marketing tips YOU found most useful from the last two years 👨‍🚀

1. Are you paying attention to "backchannel marketing"? There's so much noise in today's digital-first world that we are tuning most stuff out—ad blocked, unsubscribed, blacklisted. Instead, we opt-in to private groups / forums / communities (backchannels) that we trust.

I spent $716 on 7 Twitter growth courses in the last 40 days. Learning from the top people on how to grow and monetize a Twitter account. Here are the top lessons I learned so you don't have to spend the cash...

👩‍💻 👨‍💻 Appwrite • An open-source backend as a service for Web, Mobile and Flutter devs. 🚀 #appwrite

This is the best explanation of software complexity I’ve found: “Complexity is anything related to the structure of a software system that **makes it hard to understand and modify the system**.” John Ousterhout

Entrepreneurship is 20% acting on advice, 80% making it up as you go, and 5% breaking the rules.

@casey__allen You mean how many people read them? Yes, I've learned a lot. One of the first things I learned is that people are more likely to read something whose title begins with an interrogative adverb like "Why" or "How." Judging by titles I see now, it looks like everyone else has too.

I know I've ranted about how far ahead Apple is in SoCs for a while now.. but if you divide by *watts*, it's not even a contest. Apple is so, SO far ahead of everyone else.

Simple good advice: 4 factors together that contribute to longevity: • Diet • Physical activity • Self help (Ikigai) • Mutual help system Ikigai: Something only you can do, like water a plant, or nurture a grandchild.

Completely agree. There’s a corollary here as well. In an environment where high trust is possible, adopting processes that require trust will help create and retain it. That is, don’t wait for high trust to form, adopt high trust processes to form it.

Recipe: 1. Write an essay. 2. Explain to a friend what you said in it. 3. Go back and rewrite it to say what you just said to your friend.

This video by @Bazzaruto is making me aware the future of online courses is like an RPG game: Customer: Hero Customer problem: Villain Course creator: Guide Course content: A transformation journey hero goes through to arrive at the promised land

Here’s Naval Ravikant, Sahil and Ben Thompson discussing “Creator Economy” Full conversation on Clubhouse(26th March 2021) @naval

I agree Bezos would be greedy if he kept all this money and never donated any of it to charities. But that's not what the politicians are saying. They're saying it's greedy even to have made it. And if so, he definitely compounded his sins by starting AWS.

"People who excel tend to obsess over the details. People who struggle also tend to obsess over the details. The difference is what details they focus on. Minutiae vs polish. Most things don’t matter—but when it does, you want to get the details right." –@JamesClear

Which bootstrapped business has impressed you most during the pandemic?

@DruRly

@JamesClear There is always a third door (h/t @AlexBanayan)

The biggest pro and con of having a large following: Pro: It opens doors you didn't even know existed. Opportunities grow exponentially. Con: You become a target for disdain, regardless of what you say. But as long as you have thick skin, the pro vastly outweighs the con.

Skip the blueberries and buy amla instead, and several more useful insights in @saffrontrail’s excellent new book on why superfoods are all around you, and you don’t need to go looking for expensive fancy things on western listicles.

The point of being open-minded is to allow enough ideas in that you can form your own.

"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome." -Charlie Munger

Find your trampoline.

Your lack of planning is not my emergency.

Disney Imagineering has provided the creative energy that has driven Disney since 1952. Combining IMAGINation + enginEERING they “create experiences that entertain, inform and inspire people through the power of unparalleled storytelling". I’ve been studying their process.. 🏰

3rd Eco: Info economy Limit of progress: Knowledge Workers Dominant institution: The Bank From revolutions Intellectual rev: Pragmatism Social Rev: Financial Power shifted from Banker to individual Emerged a Social Invention: 🏢The Corp to overcome limit of Knowledge Worker

To outperform, you need serious competitive advantages. But contrary to what you have been told, most of them don't require talent. 10 competitive advantages that you can start developing today:

Tweets you can use while replying to AndhBhakts. Thread. 1. Secularism.