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The advice is not just for business executives. It's something that wise politicians also do. South Korea, Taiwan, and the state of Kerala closely examined the trend as COVID was emerging and took preventive steps to safeguard their citizens.
He continued to follow this practice. In his 2016 annual letters, he says this: > The outside world can push you into Day 2 if you won’t or can’t embrace powerful trends quickly. If you fight them, you’re probably fighting the future. Embrace them and you have a tailwind.
@lelucale @YellowVisuals Vision: where to go Strategy: path to get there Tactic: vehicle to get there
@SathyaHQ @YellowVisuals Good luck Sathya. I have started to write one thread per day. Let me see how long I can create.
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So if you want to have good family bond: • Have early family routines • Continue family rituals • Let love cover many flaws • Let adults be adults
Life is not one big thing. It is the sum of many small things.
4. Let adults be adults At family reunions and on family Whatsapp groups, we act silly and childish. Other times, no one tries to control others. Let adults be adults. In a family, giving each other space is crucial. Unnecessary pressure fractures the family-bond.
3. Love covers many flaws My brother-in-law often says in Tamil - குற்றம் பார்க்கில் சுற்றம் இல்லை, which can be loosely translated as "love covers many flaws". This has become the unwritten rule binding our families together. Look over flaws for family.
2. Continual family rituals Even after leaving home and starting our own families, we still met at least once a year to spend time together. Our kids play Roblox together. We tease each other and share silly insider jokes regularly on WhatsApp.
1. Early family routines As kids, we had family prayer time & dinner together almost daily. Daily routines bonded us as a family. We traveled at least twice a year as a family. We helped each other and bonding more.
Here are some points that have strengthened our bonds well past our childhood. • Early family routines • Continual family rituals • Love covers many flaws • Let adults be adults
Now, there have been no major turning points in my life without my sister's involvement. • She picked the flat I bought & negotiated everything. • She looked for the perfect match for me & arranged everything • She hosted first 1st son & wife until they moved with me
I didn't really get along with my younger sister until I was a teenager. I was mean to her. At home, I wanted to be the boss at home. My love for her grew as I saw the world and grew up.
@Abhishek_Rai Run with a hare and hunt with the hound. That’s the problem with the “intellectuals”. They can’t make up their mind. If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor - Tutu
@chetansha_ Very true.
If I were 25 years old now, I would invest my money now so that it can compound. Buying a flat could wait. What is your experience in investing & real esate purchase?
Value investing became a gateway to all the wonderful things I learned in life. It opened doors to understanding mental models, psychology, structured thinking, communication, and a desire to learn constantly. These topics have been a great help in my career development.
For the flat, I locked money in lump sum & made heavy EMIs. With investing, I started with ₹1,000. I invested some months, but many months I didn't. I increased the investment amount, as my revenue increased. Yet returns were same. Those are only financial returns.
@chicrevolt @CodingLeon Don’t compare your 6th day with someone else’s 600th day.
@Bsunter @CodingLeon Valid point. Most often devs jump from one to the other shining stars. Billion $s are made with php, html, & css.
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3. Handle toughest cases Delegation doesn’t mean abdication. Leaders should still handle the toughest of the cases. When done well it does two wonderful things: • Lead by example • Know the state of the firm first-hand
2. Delegate When leaders coach well, they can prepare the next layer of leaders, who in turn can train other layers of leaders. The next tier of leaders has to be set up for success if delegation has to work.
1. Teach Leaders should teach. Each interaction with the team is an opportunity to teach. They teach implicitly by the way they decide, communicate, and handle the team, even if they choose not to. Also, group members mimic those in authority. Better to be explicit.
Jethro lays out a template for any leader to avoid burnout: • teach them • delegate to a capable team and • handle the toughest cases
While the Jews were traveling to their land, Jethro, Moses' father-in-law visited them and observed Moses at work. After observing, Jethro, says: The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone. You'll wear yourself out. That sounds so relevant, doesn't it?
As I was meditating, I found a reference to burnout in the second book of the Bible - Exodus. According to the Biblical narrative, about two million Jews escaped Egyptian slavery and traveled to Israel via the Red Sea. Moses led them on this journey.
@malpani Until abt 1980s Sri Lanka & Pakistan had higher GDP than India. If India has gone on the same path as it followed, it would have failed. Nokia CEO once said, weeping, we did everything right and still failed.
@malpani Isn’t that equally hard? Are there any ideas / frameworks / checklists / models you would use to identify these “failures”?
@amitranjan What data does SSO share with the requesting apps? Will my data reside on all those servers?
@atti_cus @SushilAaron What can you expect from those who were silent when Srinivas, who helped them get oxygen cylinders during covid, was kicked and dragged?
There are no exact answers to these and many other questions. In order to succeed in life, it is better to be approximately correct rather than precisely wrong.
Consider other everyday questions. • How much money should I set aside for groceries? • How much will it cost to renovate my house? • If I work hard, will I become the president of this company?
A good example of approximation is flying. There are many instruments help the pilot fly with precision. But arrival times are approximations. This is why it is called an Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA).
I expect the system to work with precision when I call you on your mobile. For example, if I dial 9976812345, I would like to reach that exact number. Neither xx344 nor xx346.
@_alexbrogan @aaditsh I think each has its time and maturity. Yesterday I posted this:
@sujits2310 @aaditsh "Cloud & Dirt; nothing inbetween" as Gary V says. Long term vision and set what milestones you'll achieve in next 90 days.
@psankar > இளவயதிலேயே உழைப்பு பழகி விட்டால், வெற்றிக்கு வாய்ப்பு அதிகம். I agree with this point. You increase the chances of success. But what we forget is the chance events that play in our life and what we do with those chance events.
@psankar I agree that the eg I quoted was outlier. But on an average the low scorers are not bad. What mattered was what they did after UG. Many of them somehow landed in US / Canada (job or higher studies). From thereon most of them hv done well. Low scorers in India still struggle
@ProsaicView I have heard this often. I have not lived in any other country so don't know. How does this work in a large country like US, China, or even Germany? All compliance is central? Singapore or UK doesn't compare to the complexity of India.
@psankar Not true in my case; though those who got great marks are earning a lot (most of them are in the US), there are others too. One got just pass marks but got a job in series of telco companies. Now in Jio earning more than a crore putting him in top 1%
@rishabh_grg Good luck RG.
The answer isn't either/or. Both methods have their time. What do you think?
Imagine Nehru saying, "Within this century, we'll go to Mars for the lowest cost" When poverty, illiteracy, and partition plagued the country. It would've been stupid. He was smart. He placed his faith on the process. Good process will lead to good outcomes. And it did
As he laid those foundations, he was unsure what specific goals he was aiming for. He wanted, "fullness of life to every citizen" In the following decades, his "systems thinking" worked. India went to Mars with the least-expensive budget ever.
His speech outlined a solution: "to create social, economic and political institutions which will ensure justice and fullness of life to every man and woman" He laid the foundations for those institutions - IITs, IIMs, statistical institutions, dams...
In his popular speech, "Tryst with Destiny", he said: The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us.. The freedom was a step, not a goal. Not a destination. Not a place to rest.
