I use Twitter as a commonplace note: https://t.co/vPr6DeA0d4 CTO In Sales • Homeschooling dad Building @siteaudittools & @thoughttonote
How can you be prepared? 1. Have Paracetamol handy. You will likely start with a fever or cold that feels like flu/common cold. 2. Get a Pulse Oximeter to measure oxygen level in your blood. This helps in early detection of severe cases & is especially useful if you have (11/n)
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If a decision is reversible, make it as soon as possible. If a decision is irreversible, make it as late as possible. When the stakes are low, inaction hurts you. When the stakes are high, speed can kill you.
Whenever you're at a crossroads and are wondering what to do next, here's how to think. (a short thread on horizon based thinking)
I've been thinking about goals differently recently. More like "intrinsically valuable visions." Thread on how I use @RoamResearch to track visions/activities/projects/intentions (kind of like @Complice but I needed stepping stones between goals and intentions). #roamcult
People over-estimate the benefits of learning by consuming things. People under-estimate the benefits of learning by making things.
Learn in public too! Sharing your work is the best way to speed up your feedback loops, which will help you learn faster and improve your plan based on the feedback you receive. If your work is interesting, you will eventually attract experts in your field of curiosity.
This video will help you to understand the fundamentals of Adani Green in detail.
Today is the birth anniversary of #Chatrapati #ShahuMaharaj THREAD: List of some progressive measures introduced by him (from his Wikipedia entry) 1. He removed Brahmins from the post of Royal Religious advisers when they refused to perform religious rites for non-Brahmins 1/n
Let’s talk about High Agency: an attitude I’ve seen in every successful product manager & leader I’ve known. Some ppl are born/raised with High Agency. It can also be developed later in life. High agency is a prerequisite for making a profound impact in one's life & work 1/20
MARKET SEGMENTATION 101 Segmentation is often misunderstood or misused, which is a shame because it’s a vital ingredient in any good marketing strategy. I’m going to show you how to properly segment any market. Marketing Strategy Thread 1/n
There is much to Indian history than Akbar, Ashoka and Allauddin Khilji. Scores of Indian rulers have writ our history in the blood drawn from their swords. Most of them unknown outside their native states. Here is a tweet thread to list out some UNKNOWN Indian rulers.
English is a combination of two languages. 1) Anglo-Saxon influences, which came from Germany. 2) Latin speech influences, which came from Italy. Saxon words are shorter and simpler than Latin ones. Here's the takeaway: If you want to write clearly, use more Saxon words.
parent: if all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it too? machine learning model: yes
There are a few ways to expand Product Market Fit: 1. Same product, adjacent market. 2. Same market, adjacent product. 3. New product + New Market (however this is rarely the right move)
A THREAD on insightful timeless ideas shared by @naval during 2011-13: 1/ To everyone saying that college is about connections and soft stuff - sure, but there are ways to do that without $200K and 4 years.
During today’s @HouseJudiciary hearing, I asked Prof. Donald Ayer what would happen to our democracy if we don’t hold AG Barr accountable. His response: When the @TheJusticeDept becomes untrustworthy, people lose trust in the law, and the law doesn’t exist.
“The things that matter most can't be copied: You can copy goals, you cant copy discipline. You can copy ideas, you can’t copy execution. You can copy answers, you can’t copy understanding. You can copy thinking, you can’t copy thinking for yourself.” @ShaneAParrish
How to cold outreach in 2020: 1. Start a newsletter in your industry 2. Email everyone in your industry / potential customers letting them know they can contact you anytime to add news/announcements (help them / provide value FIRST) 3. Build meaningful relationships ✌️
Teaching storytelling to kids via Instapaper
Two mantras I learned from Stewart Brand tonight. One, paraphrasing Buckminster Fuller: “You have about 10 minutes to act on an idea before it recedes back into dreamland.” So write down all your ideas immediately.
Today, India has shrunk, in physical size, but more importantly, in moral courage.
It takes consistency of a high order to place your own political interests high above the interests of your nation even when an enemy intrudes into your land.
"The war will end, and leaders will shake hands, That old woman will keep waiting for her martyred son, And those children will keep waiting for their hero father, I don't know who sold our homeland, but I saw who paid the price..." - Mahmoud Darwish
Writing is a proof of work • Even if no one is reading your writing, it's still valuable • Shows potential employers that you care about a subject • Shows people on the internet that you researched a topic
@zackkanter Have you checked out "Small unit leadership"? It's old and absolutely not tech related (which I like). Taught me a lot about rudimentary leadership skills.
Find an intersection to write about • Patrick's intersection was marketing and engineering • He was a better marketer than most engineers • He was a better engineer than most marketers
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” - The Alchemist
A real business plan is not concerned with getting everything "right" today...but instead it's about being LESS WRONG tomorrow.
@not_so_old_monk Halo! the unroll you asked for: @jeremygiffon: A thread of incomplete theses I believe to be true as of of 06/15: If you have only vocational ends in… Talk to you soon. 🤖
@nateliason 1. Backup 2. Factory Reset 3. Restore from backup
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How to choose technology for your business growth? Technology is a great lever. You can launch a new product or reach new markets by leveraging technology. 1/6
Cool tools promotion thread. (Stuff I use and like, mostly dev/cli/linux stuff): pup is jq for HTML. Pipe your HTML and parser/filter it on the terminal. If you do a lot of web scraping - this is very nifty.
What’s your favorite mental model / framework for self development? Mine: say/do ratio (google it)
The Specific Knowledge Barbell: 1. 50% is learning from timeless materials 2. 50% is learning from resources that were made in the last 90 days (Blogs, Tutorials + Friends in the know) If it's not Lindy OR on the cutting edge, it's probably more damaging studying it.
How to Tweet about Your Newsletter - Celebrate Every Milestone: 3 months, 6 months, etc. 10 issues, 20 issues, etc. 100 subscribers, 500 subscribers, etc. - Write about your sources: What do you read? What do you consume? - Summarize your newsletter each week in a thread.
Less than fifteen years ago, Facebook was a college social network and Twitter was people sharing their breakfast. Now the issue of who can write what to their databases and when is a question of international importance. The most powerful people in the world have root access.
How you did in this pandemic, as a country, a village, a business, a group, or an individual, whether emotionally, economically, or morally, is an indication of how robust you are and how fit you will be for the next decades.
"Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you." - @naval
One problem with saying that we should only listen to experts is that new ideas often come from outsiders. Where an idea came from is one predictor of its validity, but no more than that. And in some fields it's a rather bad predictor.
Grow your audience on open platforms. Then, build relationships on owned ones. Open platforms: • Twitter • Facebook • LinkedIn Owned platforms: • Email • Podcasts • Personal websites Don’t let an open platform control your entire audience.
@AndreyGodsonn Valuation of a company's shares begins with the premise that value is defined as the sum of the cash flows the asset is expected to produce, discounted for the time value of money and the uncertainty of receiving those cash flows.
What are the best publicly available data sources you regularly check to understand the economic health of your industry, geography, or customers?
Life requires you to be a competent public speaker: • Job interviews • Asking for a raise • Happy hours • Conferences • Sales presentations Get as much practice as you can, and when the stakes are low
The last 3 crises have reinforced just how useless much of what we all are taught in school really is, when it comes to dealing with real-life uncertainties. Here is my thought experiment on 101 courses I would love to see included in school curriculums of future generations.👇🏽
Highest signal sales advice I've ever seen
Below is a thread about the future of remote work after the COVID-19 pandemic is over. I predict that remote will go through a trough of sorrow due to hybrid not working out, and most companies will return to being office based. But many all remote companies will see success.