The most unethical life is to be a mere part of the system, when you can change it.
4/ In skiing, and life in general, it is not the best ones who succeed. It is the best ones of those who survive.
Silicon valley people in 2015 - India is moving to license raaj by banning Freebasics. Same people in 2020 - Wow, hundreds of millions of Indians consume 10gb data a month just for a couple of dollars.
Everyone is attending 'On Line Classes Now!' @rohini_sgh @nistula @dhanyarajendran @JhaSanjay
If you're creating with someone else in mind, you'll burn out. Look at the most successful authors. They're fascinated by the ideas they explore. The byproduct is great writing. This selfishness creates an authenticity. And this authenticity attracts an audience.
What would absolutely be on your list of "Top talks/videos all designers should watch?" and why?
Via Gallup: The percentage of Americans who rated their mental health as ‘excellent’ fell for everyone except those who’d gone to a religious service in the last week.
Plugging a little playlist I made
How to become an idea machine: (thread)
Intellectual honesty without love leads to cold, uncaring arrogance. Love without intellectual honesty gravitates toward the unhelpfully safe and bland. With both life becomes a beautiful adventure of discovery and delight. With neither it's self-centered drudgery.
@madversity Reliance, Kotak, Bajaj Finance, Bharti, M&M, Dr Reddy, Sun Pharma, Tech Mahindra, Wipro, Titan, IndusInd, Divis Lab, Bajaj Finserv, Tata Steel, Bajaj Auto, Cipla, Eicher, Adani ports, Hindalco, Tata Motors, JSW, Shree Cement, UPL.
Real financial planning is a process, not an event.
If you’re a Startup trying to compete with a Megacorp—the 800-pound Gorilla in the space—you need to understand the tax inherent to being a Gorilla And then you need to make that tax work against the Gorilla—with your product's positioning & features A thread on Gorilla taxes👇🏾
When I was a student I thought professors are people who know lots of stuff. Then they went and made me a professor. After getting over my terror of not knowing stuff, I realized I had it all wrong. Here are a bunch of things that are far more important than how much you know.
Tool: object used to extend the ability of an individual to modify features of the surrounding environment Tools are the simplest form of leverage, and the right place to start the next level of the “Leverage as a mental model” topic.
I think a lot about machine learning. I think a lot about life. Sometimes, the signals cross. Here are 7 lessons from machine learning applied to life. A thread 👇
How to get lucky? via Instapaper
Aryans originated in Arctic Zone which was near present day Bihar and Orissa. Arctic Zone emigrated to its current position and left the Hindus in Hindusthan 😂😂 From M. S. Golwalkar’s book ‘We or Our Nationhood defined’
Hope the @DMKITwing can recognise the ammunition this is.
@jjude I was a little upmarket with QuickBASIC.
I've built several SAAS and side-projects those last 5 years 🛠 Not all succeed, but I learned a lot 🤓 Today I'm not sharing great life lessons and business tips. Today I'm sharing ten practical tips that will help you save time and money on your #IndieHackers journey. 👇
@alexhughsam @NickMilo Ok, here's an attempt. To me, note-taking tends to be a passive transcription, highlighting, or even re-phrasing of concepts you read about. On the other hand, note-making is an active and creative process, where you develop your own nuanced thoughts about what you learned.
Most valuable lesson I learned about teamwork: Make your leader right. Yes, during discussions about possible courses of action, boldly express contrary points of view. But once the leader has made a decision, you have one to make too: Can you commit to making them right?
Pythagoras invented this drinking cup as a practical joke. Filling the cup beyond the central column causes it to drain completely.
@gregisenberg I agree with you on this: > Everything stretched to the extremes; either extremely censored (i.e: Twitter) or non-censored (i.e: Parler). Extremely free (i.e: subsidized by ads, like FB) or extremely paid (i.e: OnlyFans). Extremely asynchronous or extremely synchronous.
Thomas Green (1927-2006), philosopher of education, said the best question for teachers to ask students in their final course evaluation is: "What did you used to put up with that you won't put up with anymore now that you've taken this course?"
The owner of @10kdiver does not have a formal education in finance. Which is why those tweet storms contain two lessons and not one. One is the subject matter being taught. The second one (which I think is equally important) is learning what power of concentration can do.
@jjude @domm @atsameerjain @netsolutions Its our great priviledge that you @jjude are a part of the team @netsolutions. Cheers to many more years of exciting work together!
Let's talk delivery options for online learning There are 4 main types to consider 1️⃣Pre-recorded video or audio 2️⃣Written words & diagrams 3️⃣Live video 4️⃣Curation 🔽A quick thread 🔽
The education landscape will change more in the next 5 years than in has in the past 50. Live, cohort-based online courses will lead the way because in addition to knowledge, they give students friendship. Proud to be an advisor and investor in this rocket ship of a company.
Here’s the difference between amateurs and professionals. 👇👇👇
2. A newsletter for everyone will be ignored by everyone.
Please feel free to share my flashcard.
whats your best work life hack?
A friend who just started a company texted me last night and asked: "What's the best piece of advice you have for me? What do you wish someone told you when you were running these companies?" Here's what I answered
@ghohpe here are some of other api books i have at the ready ... RESTful Web APIs (@RWABook, @leonardr) The Design of Web APIs (@apihandyman) Continuous API Mgmt (@CAMBook) RESTful API Design (@mattbiehl) A Practical Approach to API Design (@launchany, @CaseySoftware)
Growth and comfort cannot co-exist - Ginni Rometty
I write about this topic in my book as well. If you're interested in Zero to Sold, you can find it here:
I think about all the friends I've made in life since I was 25. They all come from: -Boxing -Chess -Military -Writing The lesson is that making friends as an adult is the product of activities. If you're lonely, you have to put yourself out there so people can find you.
As you know, English is not my first language. If that's your case too, here's my stack to write better: @wordhippo to find better synonyms @Linguee to see examples from official documents @LudwigGuru to search for words in context I don't use @Grammarly but heard good things!
How the 1950s saw the 2020s.
MEITY, NIC & NeGD, in response to @OfficialSauravD RTI say they have no info on who created Aarogya Setu. In this thread, I'll connect some dots: 1.Much of this info is in public domain. Then why no official documents? To protect those who built it? Or (1/n)
This thread is 🥇 (and fun to think through from a #SaaS mindset)
A nice benefit of being an entrepreneur is your brain bets rewired to almost always think “ok, but how could this be better” rather than just complaining about stuff.
Peter Thiel’s list of 7 questions to evaluate startups - 1) Tech 2) Timing 3) Monopoly 4) Team 5) Distribution 6) Moat 7) Secret Tesla is successful because @elonmusk nailed all 7/7 🤯
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Underrated Book Recommendations Thread Will recommend books meeting these conditions - Less than 500 reviews on Amazon - NOT from a bestselling author - I've personally benefited from it Will include what you'll get out of the book. Usually business books but expanding scope
A Thread on Term Insurance 🧵👇
Become the type of person that does things every day. Find keystone daily habits. Do them every day for a year. - 500 words every day. - One gallon of water every day. - Eight hours of sleep every day. - Ten minutes of silence every day. - One moment of gratitude every day.
