Joseph Jude

“Shaving the yak” = doing something that is only slightly related to what you are doing, just because you think it is important to the original task. Tell me, do you shave yaks? #productivity

What is storytelling in a business context? How can you use stories to build credibility? How can you use stories in critical conversations such as interviews and leadership talks? Watch this video to know more: #storytelling #video #marketing

To argue with a king, you need to use king's language Do you know your audience, and the language (jargons, metaphors...) they speak?

Every language has its fine points and flaws. So if you want to carve a better worldview, learn another language: #career

If you want to last longer in a field, focus on fundamental principles governing it 🧵

Jeff Bezos wrote a shareholder letter with Amazon annual report since 1997. They are a treasure trove of principles used to build Amazon. Watch me discuss five lessons I learned reading those annual letters Don't forget to subscribe to the channel

Dear Software Engineer, please speak up! Software Engineering is a team sport and communication is of the utmost importance. Thanks for writing this @v1bhormahajan:

Truth comes in sentences. Bullshit comes in paragraphs. With wide-spread content marketing ☝️is so true

How Accountable Teams Drive Performance in Challenging Times

We shud do this in India. It will pull people to vaccinate. Will popularise folk dance and art.

Hey @FeedHive_io, is there a bookmarklet or browser extension so I can share the web-page that I'm reading from the browser window itself?

Don’t know what’s happening with gmail spam filters. Emails from my contacts and replies in a thread are ending up in #spam. And spam emails are ending up in inbox. Anyone else facing this issue?

The future belongs to the "dot connectors" - connecting ideas via @marshallk

Spotify CEO says live audio content is the next ‘Stories’ – TechCrunch

This is an wonderful example of Public Private partnership. Hopefully this spreads to other state governments too.

“Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you’re born to stand out.” — Oliver James When you understand this, your eyes open to new possibilities

Software is indeed eating the healthcare world, in an unwanted, wrong sense. India vaccinated her population earlier successfully without these tech. This is the arrogance of tech folks solving real-world problems

Hv been trying to book an appointment for vaccination. No OTP from #cowin app; No center with Vaccine appointment.

This man gives hope to so many in the worst man-made hopeless situation.

In 30 min, I am going to host the 12th Gravitas WINS show. In today's show, we are going to discuss, "12 Weeks Year." Join if you can at 7 pm IST. Details here:

From today’s reading of ⁦@BibleinOneYr⁩ by ⁦@nickygumbel⁩ Light wind darkness are opposite but not equal. A little candle can lit a room full of darkness and not dimmed by it. Be a candle.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug - MARK TWAIN How do you choose the right word? Is it a matter of memory? Do you read through a dictionary? Sorry... The right word there is "thesaurus"

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.

Amidst widespread COVID scare, trying to find few things that can give me semblance of normality. One such thing is jogging. Started last week with 4K. Slowly improved to 6.5k now.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. - GIORGOS SEFERIS I'm what I'm because of the wide variety of influence I had. Tech masters, IAS officiers, movie directors ...Who is influencing you?

We all aspire to have work-life balance. Jack Welch said, there is no work life balance. There is work life choices and they have consequences. If we can't have work life balance, why don't we have intentional imbalance:

Hey @craigburgess, I listened to “Is there anything called work life balance” - As you say, there is no magic in the middle. I have a slight twist to the idea: Knowing we can’t hv a balance, why don’t we have intentional imbalance

Hey @craigburgess, the link to your site in the podcast is wrong. It links to https://getdoingthings.test/ rather than .com I listen on overcast: . Look at the website link. You may want to correct it.

During the morning jogging, listened to @craigburgess @arvidkahl, & @jamierusso. Here are three takeaways: • Brand is what you do • Be consistent • Don’t chase others Fun session. Enjoyed it. Listen here: Details: 👇

Higher Education Is Failing Our Kids #FridayForward via @robert_glazer

Last year covid was distant. This year it is much real. I lost a friend to covid. At least 10 friends are infected and isolated. Anyone I talk to has an infected relative. There is darkness all around. It hurts. Hurts mentally and psychologically. Hard to focus.

Contex > Content Beware of Cloning Best Practices:

I believe in luck. I hope by the end of this thread you too will share my belief. Before we talk about luck, let us talk about insurance. I am sure you have some insurance. May be car insurance or home insurance or life insurance. There are so many insurances now-a-days. 👇

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 🧵

Luck is just flip-side of risk. Do you agree? If so, we can manage luck as we manage risk. Isn't it? Listen to today's episode:

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"Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day." - Abraham Maslow

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” —John Quincy Adams

“Every artist was first an amateur.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Remember this whenever you launch something. Never compare your 6th day with someone else's 600th day

Have you paused to think what your ideal job would be? Only when you define it, you'll strive to get it. 🧵

10 types of burn-out. Identify what you suffer from:

Writing tools I learned from The Economist #writing

“Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.” — Nido Qubein

Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS | The Record by Recorded Future

What is a great conversation? A conversation is great, if: - you say things you never knew you knew - you hear words that find a place in you that you thought you lost - it brings you to a different plane - it continues to sing in your mind John O'Donohue

“You will be the same person in five years as you are today, except for the people you meet and the books you read.” — John Wooden I have increased my luck factor by books I read and people I met.

Your probability of success is proportional to the number of people that want you to succeed - @dharmesh How to reach such people and keep that number high? That is where networking comes in. My knowledge of networking comes primarily from "Networking like a Pro" book 🧵

“If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I’ve gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.” — Tom Peters If you read one good book a year that changes your mental model, you'll grow more than most.

When you start to study a field, it seems like you have to memorize a zillion things. You don’t. What you need is to identify the core principles that govern the field. The million things you thought you had to memorize are combinations of the core principles. - John Reed

"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees." — Arthur Schopenhauer I look for patterns which are happening in small portion in different geographies, domains and think how it will affect me