I use Twitter as a commonplace note: https://t.co/vPr6DeA0d4 CTO In Sales • Homeschooling dad Building @siteaudittools & @thoughttonote
I wrote three different obituaries: • One from my wife's perspective • One from my child's view • One for my professional life Then I went about living to earn that obituaries.
In Psalms 90, Moses prays, "Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." Remembering your death gets you a heart of wisdom.
Steve Jobs said it best: Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. 🌟
There are examples: Alfred Nobel was called "merchant of death" in his mistaken obituary. Stung by this, he established the Nobel Prizes. Sometimes, seeing our end helps us change our path.
It is not easy writing it. I dismissed the idea when I first read the book in my late 20s. Later I wrote it. I published it too: If you want to have a potent life, write your obituary.
"Writing your obituary" is an exercise from the popular "7 habits" book by Steven Covey. He asks you to visualize your own funeral. What do you want your wife to say about you? What do you want your daughter to say about you? What do you want your friend to say about you?
@Shadabshs I have seen it improving. Been using these for months now. Still I think it will only get you to 70%. My point is: these models will help increase demand for quality programmers
@rajeshsawhney @PMOIndia Apparently not a crazy idea. Norway seems to follow something similar during Christmas
Remember: It's not just about money. Freedom, family time, and working on your terms are the real rewards. It is a life-style business: a business that supports the life that you want. Read my short guide here: 6/6
Want to attract work? Focus on these three pillars: 1. Create content (blogs, talks, even books!) 2. Build a tight network (15-50 key people) 3. Develop social proof (testimonials > degrees) 5/6
Working solo doesn't mean working more. I only work 3 days a week, earning through: • Primary consulting • Coaching programs • Due diligence for VCs • Speaking engagements 4/6
The key? Mindset shifts: • Abundance mentality - your income isn't fixed anymore • Reality is negotiable - know what you want • See clients as peers, not superiors 3/6
First, believe it's possible. When I started, there were no role models in Indian IT consulting. Everyone said it wouldn't work. But I persisted, took calculated risks, and proved them wrong. 2/6
@Optimist_HB @atomberg_tech @arindam___paul @volklub This is what I bought: We are happy with it. Of course your choice will depend on size of room etc. @arindam___paul : Is there a buying guide? If not may be you should consider creating one
Compare these with what cursor IDE wrote. Usable directly. I think for a foreseeable future I will stick to cursor / windsurf.
Next tried gpt4all + llama 3.2 1B instruct model. This was better. At least it picked content from the blog post. But it wasn't impressive.
Next tried msty with tinylama It goes to tell me how to repurpose into an instagram story while I didn't talk anything about instagram at all. Even when I tried nudging it back, it didn't. Kept talking about instagram
Here is msty with Gemma model I attached the markdown file; asked it to create a twitter thread out of it. I think it just read the word "obituary" and went rambling ...
Been publishing yearly reviews since 2011. You can read all of them here: 11/11
Looking back at 2024: It wasn't about dramatic changes, but about steady progress. Resilience. Growth. Momentum. That's how you build a life worth living. 10/11
Key Takeaway: Focus on building snowballs, not pulling slot machine levers. Small, consistent actions > one-off big bets 9/11
The WINS Flywheel in Action: Work → Income → Network → Skills Each element feeds into the next, creating unstoppable momentum. 8/11
Financial Freedom 📈 • Dividend income now covers annual expenses • Working 3 days/week by choice • Living proof: "Wealth is discretionary time" 7/11
Faith & Community 🙏 • 5 years of weekly prayer meetings on Zoom • Leading church meditations • Building deeper community The power of consistent spiritual practice can't be understated. 6/11
Here is one app that younger son created to scratch his itch: mp4 to mp3 converter. You can checkout the app here: 5/11
Homeschooling Wins 📚 • Was featured in Indian Express (July 1st) • Elder son passed Class 10 NIOS exams • Kids learning JavaScript & building real apps • Elder son passed guitar grade 2 with distinction 4/11
Personal Growth Through Loss 💔 Lost my mother in March. Mourning isn't something to "get over" - it's a new reality to accept. 3/11
Professional Milestones: • Hit 102 episodes of Gravitas WINS Radio 🎙️ • Launched 2 apps: - Site Audit Tools for website security - ThoughtToNote for voice-to-text • Migrated blog to 11ty for simplicity 2/11
Remember: Be ambitious in your BEING and DOING. Your HAVING will become inevitable. You can read more here: 6/6
The real magic happens when you align all three: BE → drives your → DO → which creates your → HAVE Without alignment, you'll always find excuses or face internal resistance. 5/6
Examples of powerful BE goals: • To build wealth → Be frugal & think long-term • To build networks → Be generous & consistent • To achieve fitness → Be health-conscious & disciplined 4/6
But the most powerful (and often ignored) are "BE" goals - your core identity. Because here's the truth: Your actions will always align with who you believe you are. 3/6
All "have" goals should be accompanied by "do" goals: • Jog 3 km at least 3 days a week • Invest at least 10k per month • Have at least one 1-1 with manager These are trackable, adjustable, and keep you accountable. 2/6
Most of our goals look like: - Get promoted - Buy a car - Save 1 lakhs - Lose 5 kg of wt There is a problem with these goals. They are "have" goals. This is what everyone sets. These "have" goals are not enough. 1/6
@1pulkitsaini > competition is for losers work when one is at the frontier Well said. Thanks for sharing.
@prla @samsheffer Absolutely Paulo.
@dipaksharma27 @dhume I am only answering to the point that did GoI hire experts. They did. There are provision to hire for longer term too. Ex: IT folks can be brought in via NISG. I know folks who worked for 5 - 6 years. More than that you get into rut of govt thinking. So they leave on their own
@dipaksharma27 @dhume Modi and BJP demeaned Nandan and Ranjan. That didn't stop UPA to hire experts. Opposition parties (whoever) will oppose. The trouble is at least to some extent, UPA & MMS looked for expertise. They didn't look for yes men (and women). Not sure of now.
@dipaksharma27 @dhume I was a consultant in MCA overseeing LLP e-gov development before 2014. There were many more individuals like me there who were hired for their expertise. Don't forget MMS himself was an outsider. So it is not that experts were not hired in India.
@rishabh_grg Why would you think that? I still refer to your ladder post. I have it in my obsidian vault. You are way matured than most others for the age group. When you read something amazing in the past, tell yourself: "Damn! I was so smart; can't wait to see what I'll create now"
@aakash_rewari Thanks. Pity though
@arindam___paul Can you be ambitious and yet feel fulfilled? I wrote about it here: The answer I found: be ambitious in being and doing but content in having
@keepkwizing @samm_duc Let's learn together
@johnpauldickson I did exactly this with I even generated the image.
@_zenman If I'm DocuSign's CXO, I will double down on investment, be niche, and will find means to stay put. Google is known to shutdown their products. I will run a campaign on that fact alone.
@MikaMika198388 @CherylWroteIt Which one would you recommend?
@SathyaHQ @ShaneAParrish Been doing annual reviews for a decade: sometimes they are unstructured: Often it is structured:
@SathyaHQ @ShaneAParrish You can't do annual review in isolation. For meaningful review, it should be abt what you planned to do and how the year went by with respect to that. Otherwise it is just a list of things happened.
damn; it has to be "spot" not spit 🙈
@SathyaHQ Mostly Indians wud be on the side of the brits
