Best books abt the pandemic: By @TimHarford
What apps do you use on ios to track activities like walking? #fitness
@the_sample_umm @obryant666 looked the roadmap doc you shared. > Let publishers see feedback comments from subscribers. is something I would like to see done. It would be a great addition
Flywheels are difficult to pull first. Once momentum builds up, it gets you a breakthrough. In this episode, I explain Amazon's flywheel and how you can use it to build a flywheel for your personal and professional life:
If you strongly believe your content could improve people's lives but you don't improve distribution of that content, then you are doing a dis-service to those people. Hard hitting @TheCoolestCool with @FerraroOnAir:
I'm happy to release my podcast interview with an accomplished story-teller, Jayaram (an author, columnist for Business World, and a podcaster) - "Secrets of master storyteller":
When people with "skin in the game" are not appreciated, they don't become indifferent, they move to where they are appreciated. This is the top reason, why small biz suffer Small biz owners struggle to find "skin in the game" ppl When they find, they don't appreciate them enuf
Started reading "Wanting" by @lukeburgis. Just on "Note to readers" and I am highlighting paras after paras
Wondering if we don’t try to impress the neighbors, we will neither starve nor borrow. At least that’s my lesson learned by observing my parents.
@doist is not an obvious place for serendipitous conversations, water cooler chats, or quick pics of pets and things that Slack has nailed. It feels like a platform for PhD folks that are a little too serious hmm…not a choice for corporate or community communication
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” –Charles Darwin
@thesayansapui came to know abt you and tool from the twitter spaces that @SejalSud hosted. Expy looks really cool. Going to check it out. Best wishes
Listening to other creators abt this "Creator Exonomy" space by @SejalSud & @join2manish
As we move into creator economy, will we see "Minipolies"? I didn't know the term until reading @arvidkahl's post: Are you building your minipoly?
Leaders need to show three things: • clarity about purpose • honesty about values • focus on metrics
Amortize your efforts among the areas where there are 85% overlap - @EmmySobieski I have been thinking about this quote often since Emmy talked to me for @GravitasWINS podcast: 👇 I show how you can amortize your efforst on content marketing
Many times I don't know what to tweet. So I collected templates / patterns of tweets and I experiemented with them. Here are 15 different tweet templates: 👇
Don’t let lies strangle you of your destiny. You can beat the giants:
"Any time a person stands upon convictions, he will upset others who choose to sit upon conveniences." - Orrin Woodward
Do this 👇. You'll learn everything you want to know
Interesting take on podcast growth: > A leading indicator seems to be "how often is the podcast being recommended on social media, in group chats, and in private messages?" But isn't that the indicator for any online creation - blog posts etc @mijustin?
Earlier: • send an email • call to say we sent email Now: • create a basecamp thread • basecamp sends email to all project members • forward that email with some specific msg • ping on slack to remind to discuss that msg Somethings never change 😱
What is the future of jobs? I already see trends shaping the future of jobs. In Hollywood, Startups, and even in Governments. Listen to this episode and find out how you can prepare for such a future.
Why I always feel indebted to @sastrytumuluri & Dr. PV Rao. They cheered me, supported me before even I believed in myself.
"People who excel tend to obsess over the details. People who struggle also tend to obsess over the details. The difference is what details they focus on. Minutiae vs polish. Most things don’t matter—but when it does, you want to get the details right." –@JamesClear
What kind of problems should you work? Here is guidance from @businessbarista: Work on biggest problem you can work on and the urgent problem for your target market This has broader application: 👇
Do you have a framework to learn? In this video, I go in detail to the learning framework that I follow - consume, produce, and engage. Watch it: Reply back with your insights & questions
Legacy Application Modernization Strategy: A Step-by-Step Guide
At one time @buffer used to be the talk of the town. Their speed of development, transparency in building their company, and their product growth using content experiments. Seems to me they hv stalled and given that space to indie-products like @FeedHive_io & @hypefury
Why is Excalidraw so fucking good?
Iterating for months is hard. When I say hard • mentally hard to keep going without feedback from your market • mentally hard when there is no or little support • becomes physically hard soon after Been lucky to hv support this years for @GravitasWins shows on Thursdays
Your future is as strong as the decisions you make today. Yet, many of us don't learn about making decisions. Here are some of the things I've learned about decision making through many mistakes in life. 🧵
Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind - Roy T. Bennett Thanks @singhtechnical for sharing this quote with me
No, Microsoft Loop won’t kill Notion. Quite the opposite, really. | by Tejas Gawande | Nov, 2021 | Medium
Should you specialise or build range of skills? When I started my career 25 years back, I didn't have a clear answer. I experiemented. I guess I found an answer. I'm going to let Jack Ma and @sivers give that answer 🧵
Another amazing episode from @AriLamm at @gfaitheffort Religion keeps people from committing crime. That’s what the study shows.
If you're a small and unknown brand, marketplaces offer you audience. I already have an audience - Alexander Lacik, Pandora @Reuters Marketplaces have to make a compromise for all their clients. I don't have to compromise.
Of all the problems mentioned around current system, what interests me is: • micro-payments to creators without lot of addon fees
I am listening to "How Bitcoin fixes education" Can't figure out why every soln proposed can't be done without bitcoin. • small, niche schools • payments to teachers appropriate to their skills • feedback loop for schools All can be done today
Excellence is the next five minutes. - Tom Peters
All twitter spaces seems to be abt Omicron or NFT
Faith is to believe what we do not see. The reward of faith is to see what we believe - St Augustine You've to start before you see it. You unfold life as you move forward.
What skill will be in demand as we grow into remote work more and more? What skill should you develop, if you want to stay in your hometown but work for big companies? If you thought "coding" you are wrong. It would be #writing 🧵
"Don't think about winning the SEC Championship. Don't think about the national championship. Think about what you needed to do in this drill, on this play, in this moment. That's the process: Let's think about what we can do today, the task at hand." —Coach Nick Saban
How to structure your mentor meetings:
Life is a process of becoming... What matters in life is not the destination or the path or even the company. What are you becoming?
Truth becomes hard if it is not softened by love; love becomes soft if it is not strengthened by truth. - John Stott
People always favor your actions over your words. You Get What You Tolerate, by @William3Willis
