Joseph Jude

Building a sustainable company: raising money doesn't make you sustainable. Understanding how to make more than you spend does.

Ignoring the hype: I find this one hard myself. Every day, one of your competitors is in the news or goes viral on Twitter. Don't pay attention. Your Twitter followers don't pay the bills. If someone *really* wants something you've built, they'll pay you for it.

I dialed the customer care number and the executive on the other side told me to contact next week as they were busy celebrating "customer delight week" @wadhwapradeep @deydreaming @bhuvneshchawla @vandyysandyy @madversity @Vani_Author @NarvijayYadav @kritimakhija @avinash @bdutt

Don’t take a piece of advice until you understand how the opposite advice is just as valid

@jjude Geek Heresy by Kentaro Toyama.

Our highlight reels coerce a culture of dishonesty where no one can be authentically unkempt. Please don’t be seduced by bite-sized daydreams of impossible photos. Don’t be fooled by me either. Real joy is carved from unseen tears, long uncertain nights, and crazy hard work. 6/6

@jjude I get a lot of feedback and comments on my docs. Impossible with the other two

I had an AI (GPT3) generate 10 "thought experiments" (based on classic ones as input), and asked @WhiteBoardG to sketch them.

@jjude Rich dad and poor dad. It was a revelation for me.

@jjude Here are a list of books that impacted me:

@jjude Great Mental Models Vol.1 by @ShaneAParrish

4/ Those who proclaim loudest that what they do is right are the first to assert when things go awry that they were not allowed to do enough of it. It is always insufficiency they blame, never error or incompetence. - Dee Hock

If you are a developer and would like a high level guide to automated testing that’s a ~10 minute read, check out (via @dynomantle):

It's not *who* one is defending that is the problem. It is what you are defending him or her *for*.

Even more nuggets of wisdom from the writing of @deewhock (the founder of Visa) Consider reading slowly, saving, and re-reading later 1/10👇🏾

Any idea what software/app does @AliAbdaal use to create videos like these? @uberstuber & @ImArifV would you know?

6/7 The strongest gospel witness is a loving family and a loving local church, in which there is transparency, accountability, and a constant redemptive process of truth-telling and grace. That is far more powerful than preaching, and it is a lot harder to fake. #RaviZacharias

I love ugly websites. People get hung up on design. For 80% of companies, it doesn't really matter IMO. If it works, it works. And ugly can work. Some of the world's biggest companies have awful websites. My Favorite: Berkshire Hathaway

1/ There's a communications technique called "Public Narrative". Created by a Harvard prof, it has influenced leading politicians (Obama) and business people (Bezos). Once you learn it, you see it everywhere...like in Vlad Tenev's GameStop speech. Let me explain 🧵

@jjude The Lifestyle Investor by Justin Donald

A follower asks if these post are newly written, or derived elsewhere. For 40 years I have kept a daily journal. Each day I wrote four short observations then in mind. Some tweets are currently composed. Others are from the journal and edited for suitability. All are original.

.@fortelabs told me this is what made it all click for him, so sharing it here. Simple is sophisticated, folks.

just deployed the 4th release of FeedLetter this month, fixing a lambda/db issue and adding a new widget layout to paste into the email - requested by an early supporter #buildinpublic

@jjude It felt over-simplified and had an underlying pattern of ignoring your environment and how your actions affect others. Also, the examples of succesful stoics were also well glazed with many examples of people with unmentioned concerning histories.

I couldn’t heal because I kept pretending I wasn’t hurt.

Essentially, a policy is easy to do if you can adjust an existing database easily, and almost impossible to do if you can't. This of course plays into the debate over the £20 UC uplift - proposed solutions essentially divide into computer says yes and computer says no.

To build a brand you must ⬇️ ⬇️ 1) nail your messaging hierarchy 2) stand for something 3) create a storytelling drumbeat marketing program 4) ditch your perfectionist founder syndrome outlook 5) deploy content across all mediums obsessively 6) evangelize every single day

Among the more egregious sins of our educational system is insistence that the best way to learn is from text books, rather then experience, in cloisters, rather than in nature, and from instruction, rather than converse with the wise.

@jjude I love the evolution of this concept! Thanks for sharing. This makes so much sense. Did a little @visualizevalue on @jackbutcher's image to reflect this.

On making optimal decisions, knowing when to expect the average outcome in life, and when not to. My latest:

Want to build a great community? Reflections from @ginab of @MightyNetworks mini-course today 1. Build a community around something interesting or important to members 2. Deliver specific transformation over time 3. Only need 30 members to start 🧵

Idea + Idea = Idea Idea + Execution = Experiment Idea + Execution + Consistency = Growth 🌱

I noticed Ravi would raise an incredibly interesting question, bring in Philosophy 101, then describe a time he stumped someone in an argument (or stumped a person seeking faith), and tie it up with a sentimental eloquent illustration. He did this over & over. The thing is, 3/

Are you ready for the show? Great post here.

The totalitarian instinct is to assert "Everyone should believe in what I passionately believe in" and this instinct can arise in politics, religion, sports, technology(!) ... A useful antidote to this instinct is classic book: The Road to Serfdom.

If you are building an e-commerce company in 2021, you are doing it wrong. Startups are evolving and are getting more layered. Wave #1: Enable transactions ↳ eCommerce Wave #2: Building 2 Sided Networks ↳ Platforms Wave #3: Building Layered Experiences.

A masterclass on film making and perfect timing: James Burke had only once chance to film this scene, and the result is possibly the best timed shot in television history.

It's a slow, snowy afternoon. How about a 🧵 on "rationalists" & "rationalism"? I want to talk about what real rationalism might look like & what people devoted to rationalism might actually behave like--and how that differs from what you often see from self-styled rationalists.

The Ravi Zacharias scandal has a lot of people wrestling today with the complex, pervasive, and viral nature of human sin. If ever there was one, this is a delightful little book on depravity.

God, grant me the notes to document the things I cannot change; productivity to change the things I can; and mindfulness to know the difference

Assumptions of everyone having a cell phone number because every one in your social circle have 2 numbers, is how policy creation works. And then when coded into an app, creates these issues.

Here are the best threads I've ever read on Twitter. A collection on: - Marketing - Life & purpose - Startups - Entrepreneurship - Passion I'll be adding to this list as I discover more from amazing creators I see on this app every day. You need to read these ASAP 👇

Asian Maslow.

The single most fundamental error of the last three decades is to try and design an idealised future state rather than working the evolutionary potential of the here and now, the adjacent possibles - it is impossible to gain consensus in the former, easier in the latter

If you sit down in front of a screen without a clear intention, you will get side-tracked. First answer: What do I need to do? Then use technology. It should be the tool, not the master.

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THREAD: I've thought a lot about what it means to be wealthy. But putting a "number" on it is a one-way ticket to the rat race. Instead, here are 10 indicators of wealth (which have nothing to do with money):

@fortelabs ^ That specific link above was to their note on "moonlighting" within their handbook Here's their other policies: (they have a quirky one: "Until the End of the Internet")

Network Effects 101 The concept of network effects is a powerful mental model through which to evaluate businesses, startups, money, human societies, and nature. But what are “network effects” and how do they work? Here's Network Effects 101!