Joseph Jude

That’s because we don’t teach humanities to our kids.

Smart people don't sweat it alone. They seek help whenever needed.

Engineering is about advancing society's capability Literature is about advancing society's character

Kids love experiential learning. Not the boring sit in class and listen to lectures learning.

Everyday we read, watch, and listen to some of the greatest ideas floating around the Internet. Only thing that matters is, what are you going to do with that idea. Listen to this episode to know how I learned & acted on the idea of "skill stacking":

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.- Michelangelo

Culture = principles + enabling processes + stories celebrating desired outcomes I have seen this formula work whether it is a company or a house or a church.

Pausing is good for the heart, business, and life.

If you listen to every critic, you'll never get anywhere near your goals. But if you completely ignore critics, you'll end up in a pit blinded by your biases. Listen to this episode to know when to ignore critics and when to listen to them:

No one ever got ahead doing the bare minimum. - Netflix's first CEO was Marc Randolph

Anyone in my TL who can share some life changing story?

When we look at someone's CV, we think they figured out everything and went from one success to the other. Life is not linear. You shape life as much as life shapes you. #visualthinking

Speed is a feature; thoughts on modern web performance

What’s the best way to spend our money for maximum enjoyment and generate maximum memories?

@edofic Is the code for the project you mentioned here (gorilla with htmx) in any github/lab repo?

Smart people ask for help. Are you smart?

When I became a project manager, I asked my boss if I should take up the PMP certification. What he told me shifted the way I thought about degrees and certificates. Listen to this episode how his answer guided me in the last 15 years:

Japan is prone to massive earthquakes. Because they know earthquakes will occur, they invest in early warning systems, and minimize the impact of earthquakes. Our lives are similar. We will experience emergencies in our lives. Knowing this, we can plan to deal with them.

Gem in this thread. Suffering is inevitable in this world. But you can handle it by doing small things. Thank you @saaiyer for sharing your story.

Wow. This is great. Will Flutter really be THE cross platform development tool? @darshansharma_ & @TweetAmitM - what do you say?

Probably @Abhishek_Rai can answer this question 👇

Here is my journey from doubting homeschooling to a homeschooling dad and enjoying it. I started researching on homeschooling in 2013. At that time, I wasn't sure it could work for me.

In the last month alone I gained 100 new followers. This analytics from @TweetHunterIO tells the reason. Keep your tweets and replies high. Don't just use twitter as a megaphone. Use it as a telephone to have a conversation

We didn't have money, so we didn't have this problem. While reading thread, thought of this CK Louis interview May be it is good to remind ourselves of the journey we have had so far.

Yet, in 70s & 80s we all lived together as Indians without threat of freely spewing out threat of rape of women of a particular community. While it is good to celebrate progress in one area of the country, we also need to hold the govts accountable for the social fabric.

Here is a good framework to shape the future

How the mighty fall! Sri Lanka is not a small, incapable country. It's per capita was higher than India & Pakistan in 2018. What I would like from @SejalSud is the lessons for India.

In a complex system like a country, it is not possible to identify the root cause of anything positive or negative. Yet, this is a good thread by @SejalSud on the current problem in Sri Lanka.

The story so far in our homeschooling. Three @TEDTalks sowed the seeds for my quest for homeschooling. • Do schools kill creativity? by Ken Robinson • Kids can teach themselves by Sugata Mitra • Stop stealing our dreams by Seth Godin

Two men started building a house—one built on a rock, another on the sand. Storms and floods came. One stood, another vanished. Storms are sure to come. How are you planning to deal with them?

Be ready to embrace the unknown.

If you want to stand out from the sea of CVs, shorten your CV. Trim it to one or two pages. But load up on portfolio. Listen to this episode to learn how you can get started with creating your portfolio:

How to shape your future? I build these 4 scenarios: • projected • plausible • possible • preposterous It gives me enough material to identify skills and support needed to shape the future.

Consumption makes you a storehouse of ideas; but the producing value makes you an authority.

To plough a field, you can hire 100 chickens or 2 strong oxens. Your results will depend on whom you hire. To paraphrase what we say in software, you get what you hire.

You don't have to put others down to feel good or proud. Seems to be a new trend in India.

You are the average of the friends you hang out with. More true of kids. This one parenting decision is much more important than anything else. #parenting

Conduct low-cost, low-risk experiements before concentrating all resources into a big bet

Peter Drucker is a proponent of "making a lead decision that removes hundreds of other decisions." You can follow this principle in your life too. Listen to this episode to know examples of "lead decisions" in your daily lives:

Every Indian is taxed. But only one language promoted. Why?

I am experimenting with visual essays. Here is a thread of all my visual essays

All profitable ideas have 3 characteristics: - it has to be correct - it has to be non-obvious - you have to hold it for long Do you agree?

Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them

Very different thinking in building a product. Congrats @onurozer from a fellow @megamaker

We need wisdom and discipline in life. Wisdom is choosing to do now what you'll be happy with later on. That requires discipline

This article is just singing to choir and all in the choir patting themselves how great they are.

If a minority would have written such article it would have been an excellent take down. Now it it is just a mouthpiece of govt speaking. Plus if the article would have dealt with number of threats constantly posed against minorities, it would have been a fair article. Alas.

First bullets. Then cannonballs. CNN fired a $300 million cannonball at a streaming service & it failed to hit the target. CNN+, as it was called, shutdown just after a month of its launch. In 1985, Coke fired a cannonball. It tried changing it's 99 year taste & it failed

Know what you have to obsess over

Our mind can store enormous amount of data. But it can hold only few ideas on the top of the mind. Our mind will drift to those ideas when we take a walk or a shower. Listen to this episode to know how you can keep top thing in mind: