Joseph Jude

"What if the proper function of intellect and philosophy is not the denial of the will but the coordination of desires into a united and harmonious will?"

Envy is a really stupid sin because it's the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. - Charlie Munger It is not easy to escape envy though.

If a book doesn’t change your mindset you have wasted your money in buying it and time in reading it. Well I have invested both time and money in reading the Bible. Here are some ways in which it shaped me. One day will expand on each points.

Oh is this why @SathyaHQ is obsessed with yellow too? @YellowVisuals

Indian govt should foster more Adanis, not more of one Adani. Well said @cvkrishnan

There is definitely a need for tools like @logseq & @workflowy where you can think and go deeper on a single bullet point. But as the number of items grow both tools become unusable.

Tried @logseq again on Mac with abt 1000 files (obsidian repo). Too slow to be usable

So across the world the scene is the same. Parents send kids to school thinking they have delegated educating the kid to teachers. Schools send homework delegating education back to parents. Happily play this ping-pong or homeschool the kids.

Ability to correct mistake come from: - lack of awareness of our biases - Low frequency of feedback - Depending too much on hindsight rather than on foresight

We make two kinds of mistakes and #valueinvesting rips the band-aid off and exposed both of them.

Not all wives make fine party presidents. Think of Janaki MGR & Lallu’s wife. Sonia wasn’t a dummy. She traveled across the country, campaigned, negotiated, and took on cheap, lowly attacks. If there has to be a woman role-model, I would point to her.

Best teachers know why a student makes a mistake. They don’t dismiss the student’s effort, attitude. They don’t get angry. They know each student struggles at different aspects.

Value investing teaches you the difference between value and price. #investing

Should you stop reading books if they don’t change you? 1. Reading books is the best avenue to have a dialogue with brightest minds. 2. If your mindset is not changing possible you are reading fluffy books or more tactical books (“how to”) 👇

As a father I know this: kids mimic what you do, not what you say. Office is not much different. After all we are all still kids in some corner.

If books you read didn’t change your mindset you have wasted your money in buying them and your time in reading them

Value investing is a portal into everything you need for a better career.

in the future, one of the milestones by which you measure your financial success will be not just now many zeroes you can add to your net worth, but whether you can structure your affairs in a way that enables you to realize full individual autonomy and independence. #booknotes

Now that I've read the lecture (pdf here: ) I think Vembu is the epitome of the concepts Rajan is making in his lecture. First certain key points from the lecture

Here is a great example of "Application Modernization": @smashingmag retained Wordpress for its CMS but uses Jamstack for front-end. Everything is hosted on @Netlify It is a fine example of embracing the cloud technology without much disturbance to business.

I find @bigthink ‘s writing on the book (power of positive thinking) shallow. It debates the author not the book nor it’s ideas nor it’s impact on people (positive or negative) May be a title of “Contradictory preacher of positive psychology” would be right for the content.

A fine thread by @amangoeliitb what govt expects from us and what we expect from govt. Is it too much to expect basic working facilities from govt when they take so much from us?

Solid 7P framework for shining copy

Why I use @sketchapp & @ScreenFlow and related tools. Buy once and use it forever. Bad for companies may be. Great for users.

Don’t opt for homeschooling as @malpani says. Yes, you are making a decision, thinking independently. But that independent thinking will rub to all other areas and kids too. Your kids will end up questioning and disrupting all social norms 😳 It is happening in my family 😱

There are ton of business applications running on legacy hardwares in private data centers. They could be moved to cloud and embrace new tech capabilities. They can also get new business features. Some thoughts on application modernization 👇

There was a time I used to wear suits everyday. Now I don’t. 👇 could be a reason

This is the need of the hour. We need many programs like this across India. 👏@CP_PANCHKULA

Hey @mijustin : Reading through this again, watching these clips and wondering from a parent pov: How do you expose your kids towards these things - speak publicly etc, now that you don't go to church.

We don’t need better meetings; we need better tools for collaboration so that we don’t need as many meetings

One common thread behind many success stories (but doesn’t get discussed explicitly) is: certain accumulation of privilege Could be coz of birth, college, geography, previous ventures etc.

In India, it goes like this: "We become engineers and then wonder what we want to be in life" ;-) Parenting seems to be same across the world

What is MACH architecture & where is it useful? MACH stands for • Microservices • API-first • Cloud-native • Headless

Nehru built educational institutions, not communal fire. It is a pity those who enjoy the fruits blame the sower.

There is a wrong way to assemble THE best car. Lessons from there are applicable to companies and marriages.

If you chase shiny objects all the time, you can't make any meaningful impact in the world.

I don’t know why companies don’t hire from schools and train them in their in-house “colleges”. Will benefit them, kids, and parents …

I am a CTO at work & home. I like it. 😂 Chief Technology Officer & Chief Teaching Officer Come to think of it, there are lot of overlaps between these roles.

The beauty is here on earth. Not in the space. My trip to the space was suppose to be a celebration. Rather it felt like a funeral. Preserve what we have.

You need to know very little to get ahead in life. It is not the how much you know, but how well you know. What you need to know (comes from my experience): • Multi-disciplinary learning • Structured thinking • Structured communication

It is amusing to know even Augustus Caesar longed to retire from work & spend his time in leisure. Our deepest needs have not changed for thousands of years

Finally people are waking up to the horror of TrueCaller

As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. @tferriss (Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week)

TIL: Dropbox can’t sync files with emoji (🥜🌹) in file names. So if you have digital gardens and want to have these emojis in filenames, bad luck

When I grew up I wanted to write fan letters to actors and leaders I admired. In this generation, it is youtubers. Here my 10 year old son writes a fan letter to @Mrwhosetheboss

Do we have less time in this earth or do we waste much of it?

I talked to @naveensamala about role of CTO I broke it down into: Chief: leadership & guidance Technology: all things about technology (choosing tech, governance, audit etc) Officer: get work done If you are in engineering, hope this talk is useful.

Too many bad experiences of embracing Google products (rss reader, G+...) and as you get a hang of it, they are abandoned. LPA - "launch, promote, abandon" seems to be the practice at Google as discussed here 👇

In this interview with @KaranThapar_TTP, @ShashiTharoor lays out a vision and action plan for India & hers youth. Hope he succeeds in becoming INC president.

Hey @airvistara please pass on our thanks to Rishabh in Chandigarh airport. He took responsibility to track us when my forgetful son left an iPad in the flight.