Learnings in life - Year 2020 Week 36

Yes I missed publishing it for 2 weeks, but now I am doing this today. This is a relly long one though.

The latest news from my side is that we realeased the first-look teaser video for UNMASK - India’s first transparent mask. Do have a look & let me know what you think.

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On with the learnings….

1. See that reaction! It is from a series called connected in Netflix. Have to watch it just for that reaction.

   Ramki @ramkid

   Watch Latif Nasser present Connected on Netflix. Science has rarely been made more accessible and engaging. Just see that face. You'll have the same reaction too. I promise.

   

   Now see that reaction in kids. We are all kids at heart. Kids bring so much joy into our lives. Just their reactions all the new things they experience is breath-taking. What I would pay for such innocence. This! This is what art does. It fills you from within.

   Lisa Fleisher @lisafleisher

   Things always seem terrible around here, but yesterday my daughter saw her first waterfall and I got to watch her face.

   

2. Cloudflare service went down during in selected locations an international tournament, which lead to 2 Indians losing important matches. How do you prepare, control & handle such issues? There is definitely a cloudflare issue but shouldn’t chess.com have backups? & what if both the backups use the same underlying infra? How deep can you plan for?

   International Chess Federation @FIDE_chess

   In the second round of #ChessOlympiad final match India vs Russia, two Indian players Nihal Sarin and Divya Deshmukh lost connection to their games and forfeited on time. India filed an official appeal, the issue is now being investigated.

3. We often wonder when selecting a candidate or practically anything in this world, if we have chosen right. Often the problem starts with setting of expectations in terms of quality, services, costs, etc…. Here is a scientific solution to this problem.

   Shivam Agarwal @AGARvalaAgarwal

   This is a borderline paradox. If you select too early you have no idea of what a good baseline to judge was and probably haven't even met the best option. If you wait too long, you risk the chance of already having passed on the best option.

   The solution is ~37%. Spend 37% of time to set the baseline & then select the first one that crosses this baseline.

   Shivam Agarwal @AGARvalaAgarwal

   Spend ~37% of the time you intended to devote for your task to set the comparison baseline and then select the first option that clears that baseline

   Shivam Agarwal @AGARvalaAgarwal

   If you have 20 candidates lined up for the role you want to fill, select the first candidate, after initial 7, who supersedes all the previous ones. If you had one month to hunt for the apartment, explore for 11 days without committing and then select the best one after 11 days.

   Is this over engineering?

   Shivam Agarwal @AGARvalaAgarwal

   @prajwalsheno It does present an interesting case for itself but as with all theories there are some obvious things which this doesn't consider What if you realllly like the 2nd candidate out of 20? Would you wait till 7? Wouldn't selecting him make so much more sense? Saving time &resources

   The way I would tackle this is that I won’t necessarily reject everybody in the initial 37% but once that threshold is crossed, I would realign my expectations to check if they are too high.

4. Came across this nice hack to check who is using automated messages on LinkedIn. Just start your name with an emoji.

   Kelly Vaughn 🐞 @kvlly

   I saw a post on LinkedIn that recommended adding an emoji at the beginning of your name because you could see who was using some sort of automation tool to send out connection requests. I can now confirm it works.

   

   

   Even more interesting is this. Start your name with a function call & see what is getting blown :D. Now I understand how hackers breakin…

   Faruk Brbovic @darkgaro

   @kvlly Nice - but probably not long before they build a better parser :( We could also try different characters around the name I am going to try starting a new trend and something super geeky Writing my name as a function call Faruk().brbovic()

5. People are building 3D worlds. Many letters earlier I remember somebody made a really awesome library with all books in the world. I am really amazed at whats happening in different silos of the world that most people aren’t aware of. The day VR tech becomes practical (this Ready Player One), minecraft will really explode.

   See this video of so realistic 3D world & see the number of subscribers to it. Mind blown! If we are here already, where would we be in 10 years??? & how far are we from creating a perfect simulation?

   Now see this. This is how kids learn so much stuff. What I & my friends learnt from Age-of-Empires & Caesar kind of games, I think Minecraft is replacing that.

   Sy Brand @TartanLlama

   My kid is fixing a bit of floor in Minecraft using TNT blocks because "it's what I had and I'll just not blow it up". I think this is what our industry calls technical debt.

   See this, here the guy accidentally fires his whole place.

6. Now see this digital toy experience. There are so many practical use cases for this. Think how fast the world is progressing & just wonder what happens when all these pieces come together.

   Robbie Tilton @robbietilton

   I've been working on a new digital toy concept. A lot more to come with this one... #ios #design #madewithunity

   

7. One end is the 3D world, on other is people wanting Audio to really blow up. Though distribution mediums for Audio are changing, what has really changed from tech/product point of view? Here is Hemant talking about Audio being the next big thing.

8. Top 25 media franchises of all time. Damn! I know nothing about most of them. I don’t relate to most of it. Make me wonder how limited my world view is.

   Zoe Scaman @zoescaman

   The top 25 highest-grossing media franchises of all time - bet you wouldn't have guessed Pokemon, Hello Kitty & Winnie The Pooh Most show an incredible ability to adapt & reinvent to maintain cultural relevance (see: Hello Kitty getting into esports) & merch is their no.1 $$$

   

9. So micro-tuning/optimising of body is definitely a thing of future. There are already signs in people going for Plastic-surgery-enhancement & Lipid-suction, etc… Athletes, Actors & probably top influential people already do this. How long before this trickles down? And how long before be become a cyborg?

   Sundeep Peechu @speechu

   Fairly convinced frequent blood tests and micro tuning of the body is going to be a thing. It’s very expensive now ($thousands/quarter) so only folks with high stress and means do it, mostly CEOs. But the results seem undeniable and technology will eventually deflate the cost.

10. One thing I have almost no idea of is the Passion economy. And it has so many niches that I don’t think anybody can sanely follow this.

    Here take a peak into a day of Sam Parr, a modern world influencer/porn-star? It’s crazy the way this happening.

    Sam Parr ⚪️ @theSamParr

    Here's the day in the life of Aella, OnlyFans content creator (nudes pics/videos) who makes $100,000 a month off. She has 3,200 subscribers and is the top op 0.04% of creators in terms of monthly revenue generated. Crazy fascinating:

    

    Its really amazing how OnlyFans created a niche out of a over-crowded industry.

    Lex @TheLexTimes

    @YadKonrad @ShaanVP @Pornhub They've tried this, and it has failed compared to OnlyFans. OnlyFans has gone mainstream and isn't as stigmatized as PH. It doesn't feel like SW like PH. OF's greatest success was winning the culture war, not the business war.

    stars.avn.comAVN StarsAVN Stars is the world’s fastest growing social media platform for the adult entertainment industry. Follow porn stars, clip artists and content creator profiles for free. See exclusive photos, stream hardcore clips, posts, and live shows from the hottest AVN Stars.

    On the other hand is Danish Sait, who has created a market for himself with simple videos & amazing creativity.

    The Startup Guy™ @vijayanands

    Talking about the passion economy, Someone said, such stuff doesn't happen here in India. Not True. Take the case of @DanishSait - he is a case study on leveraging a talent, building an audience, leveraging creativity (and coming up with characters) and building a following.

    The Startup Guy™ @vijayanands

    The anti dote to bollywood, nepotism and bleargh, isnt more complaining and uncles screaminy on TV, but building and enabling tools that help creatives build an audience on their own.

11. Entrepreneurs, do this. Have a buddy with whom you can discuss anything & everything. It doesn’t have to lonely.

    It is difficult for other people to understand this journey, so get another entrepreneur buddy.

    Anil Thontepu @tnpanil

    @neerajmnt and I block one hour every week to share what we went through personally when building business together. This helped us share the emotions that we had when we took a decision. We do this monthly with the core team too and the results have been amazing.

    

    Priyanka Sehgal @priyankasehgal7

    Entrepreneurship is lonely.

12. There is a period of SLOG in every high achievers life, not just a startup. Its not flashy & glamorous. You have to live through it. A nice thread on what all happens at a startup, read-on to know how those super-star founders got there.

    buggeroaf (BO) @buggeroaf

    Keep plugging away at the product improvements. Ship code weekly. Talk to customers regularly. Set up mini progress targets and CRUSH THEM. e.g. "Add 1 new customer this week" "Write 1 blog post this week" "Create 1 marketing automation this week" Manage your cash obsessively

13. This nice blog by Naman Sarawgi on in.com’s traffic. What a simple insight & your click through rates go through the roof. What are such insights today, hiding in plain sight?

    Also this thread on how he moved from one thing to another, almost all in the field of freelancing & how writing has opened many gates for him. Absolute gold-mine I say.

    Naman Sarawagi @NamanSr

    The (failed) PR experience from client #1 helped me launch Freecharge. We were covered every where. Every online tech/telecom blog in India, few newspapers, the biggest Indian online portal, a TV channel and a Business magazine. In first 4 months. Total cost was INR 5K+taxes.

    Naman Sarawagi @NamanSr

    .@RefrensApp is an attempt to capture all the learnings from freelancing over 14yrs. Trying to replicate all my experiences from freelancing, that created magic for me, for millions others. It will be beyond just finding your next work. It will be your network.

14. A wonderful story by Andrew Wilkinson on how he built a local community by giving people local news as a newsletter. Capial Daily is today bigger than The Times Colonist, a 100year old brand. What are the obvious cues in todays world that we are missing?

    Andrew Wilkinson @awilkinson

    Now I own the largest daily audience in the city, with no gatekeepers (direct to inbox, no FB or platform risk). I expected to burn money, but now advertisers are lining up and we’ve realizing it can not only break even, but be profitable...

15. So this lady taught tech to a aged person in her society & got paid for it. This is so crazy? Do we see a million dollar idea in here?

    Aishwarya @ashwrya7

    She paid me and said she was grateful I was taking out the time. She knows many of her friends who feel this way but are too shy to seek help. "I can't sit still beta, I need to find ways in which I can help myself." Did I mention she's 68?

16. Here is Paras Chopra on how to get great ideas. He has a simple hack. “Look for anamolies”

17. Here is Naman Sarawgi talking about triggers for using products. Are they internal / external. This is really good insight because this would determine your positioning & marketing strategy.

    Also some products, which are habit forming just need to Slog for really long to build a new habit. Also what other natural activity can you link your product to?

    Naman Sarawagi @NamanSr

    When thinking of a new product /service - always think of what is the trigger to use the product. Is it an internal trigger? - The craving for tea/coffee, or using a tooth brush. An external trigger? - Someone asked you to use it. Tax filing, paying bills etc.

18. One of the ways Pepsodent cracked this is by asking people to run their tongue across their teeths & feel the layer there. This simple trick along with asking people to brush everyday in morning created a new product category.

19. Do we need retail stores anymore?

    Have a moving shop, which doubles up as office. Great locations for awesome pictures & kill it on instagram.

    Amit Thadhani @amitsurg

    Shops are coming to our society now!

    

20. The idea of building publicly is really great. This has given rise to a new kind of passion-economy. Here’s Jack from Visualise Value talking about Social Capital & how it works. May seem really basic, but this is how it works.

21. What are the type of online-communities growing?

    Greg Isenberg @gregisenberg

    3 types of internet communities that are blowing up right now: - Rite of passage communities (i.e: going to college, first job in a new city) - Education communities with a clear beginning and end phase (i.e: learn iOS) - Communities driven by a charismatic leader What else?

22. Note-taking is important. Note-taking is like gardening. If you want to learn effective note-taking, here is a thread on people who teach it. Also do visit Saurabh Garg’s blog on the subject.

    Sanjeev NC @yenceesanjeev

    10/ Okay, not fin Wanted to point out that Roam Research is not free and actually costs 15$/year if you're paying monthly. They do offer a 30 day trial in case you want to try it out Free alternatives-Obsidian and RemNote. Both are good but I picked Roam because it just worked

23. Seriously! College education is way over-rated. It worked in a age, but not anymore. Invest in books, self-education & side-hustles.

    Λtharva Kharbade @athrvakhrbde

    If people start putting the same money and efforts into books, self education and side hustles they put into college education, their lives will be at a whole different level. And we'll also progress as a civilization.

    

    David Perell @david_perell

    Books let you download somebody’s brain for the price of a sandwich

24. Time is the most essential commodity, but its your own time. Others time is kind of non-value to you. Whatever you do, don’t sell your time to people. Sell them something which is much more.

    When doing user surverys, don’t ask what’s their pain-point, people do a very bad job at answering this. Rather obsereve where do they spend most of their time!

    Ced @ejames_c

    The most profound thing I got from The Tiny MBA was the following four boxes (tweets? ideas?) It’s so obvious in hindsight, but totally not obvious if you’re the one in the pit doing the work.

    

    

    

    

25. Here is Jack explaining the same thing as leveraged man vs non-leveraged man. Humans are tool-builders & if you build tools on & for the internet, your leverage & social-capital increase immensely.

26. How can you gain more leverage? How about taking up projects you have already completed 80%? Here is David Perell explaining how he uses the Articles already written & his note-taking system to Research better, Think better & ofcourse Write better. This is how you become a powerhouse of knowledge.

    David Perell @david_perell

    Writing should save you time. Every article is an artifact of your best thinking on a subject, which you can remix and re-use for the rest of your life. The longer the shelf life of an idea, the longer you can spend writing.

27. Jobs App for blue collar workers. I have known about this app for almost a year now but I didn’t understand the importance of this then. Such a brilliant idea (in hindsight for me.) Also how they stumbled on PMF is a story in itself. Read about Apna app getting funding here.

28. Any task you do Google Docs is worth a $100M business. Here is one example. Also the idea of WhatsApp-pay got life when the WhatsApp people found that people are sharing screenshots of payments done over WhatsApp. Also mostly the reason that Google-pay has a chat based interface.

    So hit me up what (repetitive)-task you do on Google Docs & let’s see if it can automated.

    Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke

    Any dumb task you're doing at work with a Google doc is a $100m+ business. In 2014, we started making take-home-tests / assessments for customer service candidates in Google Docs. Built a company in 2015 to do this better, not using Docs. That business now has 600k users.

29. The way we say that everbody lives in his own hell. The most difficult thing is what you don’t know how to do efficiently.

    But ya once you have acheived PMF, building gets really difficult. Probably choosing what to build & what not to build is what gets you once you reach PMF?

    Kuldeep @ku1deep

    Selling.is.easy. 🙂 it is the building that gets you.

    

    Pratiksha Dake @PratikshaDake

    Building is easy. Selling is hard.

30. “Dukaan” app which helps in cataloging & receiving orders recently got funding. Apparently its DAU’s are at ~4% of its total downloads. An app like this should have a high DAU. I am also trying to solve a similar problem, so this really hurts. what would PMF look like?

    Ravi Chandel @dpravi799

    "Dukaan has over 600K downloads with about 23,000 daily active users." DAU/Total Downloads ratio is ~4🤦‍♂️

    

    Harsh Upadhyay @upadhyay_harsh1

    Dukaan is in advanced stage to close $6-7 Mn worth seed round at a valuation of ~ $25 Mn My story @entrackr https://t.co/huNHpO5WEg

31. At the same time the trend of offline businesses going online is also catching pace. Is this one-off or going to stick? Here is Refrens app talking about how offline businesses are increasingly looking for services in the online world.

    

32. Here is founder of outdocart saying the trend is temporary.

    Nirmal Dayaramani @nirmalnd

    @anmolm_ I guess sellers and users are at the end going back to real Dukan, this is temp. Selling on WA is a fairy tale we would love to believe in, but it's not seamless enough to do it forever. We at @outdocart have 5 years of work gone into ecom, and people still need more features 🤷‍♂️

    A few weeks back I had posted some DAU figures for Dukaan app. The figures shared by the founder here paint a different story.

    

33. Harvesting farmer network has developed an app to connect farmers with buyers but still highly dependent on WhatsApp. India runs on WhatsApp.

    Harvesting Farmer Network (HFN) @HarvestingFN

    @ArunkumarV_IFS We would like to talk to some of the farmers growing this chili 🌶 and also possibly buy it - can you help connect ? Our farmer support WhatsApp number is 8284809666

34. E-commerce is really flying in Indonesia. Makes me wonder whats different between both the countries for such a stark difference?

    India already is ahead of India in volume of transactions via e-commerce.

    Rajesh Sawhney @rajeshsawhney

    E-commerce: India v/s Indonesia Despite all the hype surrounding Indian E-commerce, Indonesia e-tailing market looks poised to overtake India by the end of 2020. 🇮🇩 retail spends are 2.5x that of 🇮🇳 Forget China, now our benchmark has become Indonesia.

    

35. So India’s GDP on a annualised basis is supposed to shrink 24%. Now this figure is wrong, as it doesn’t take into account the growth since lockdown. Also the below tweet is wrong as apparently the way of measurement for each country varies considerably.

    Aloke Bajpai @alokebajpai

    Faking News Alert: The folks & media outlets circulating this graphic on social. India’s figures are Q2 YoY comparison. Others are QoQ (Q2 Vs Q1) 2020. Same scale for US was -33% Canada:-38.7% France:-18.9% Italy: 17.7%

    

    GST collections haven’t taken a big hit & I am increasingly getting cues that things would be back to normal way before than anybody envisaged.

    BJP @BJP4India

    GST collections have remained healthy during unlocking period in June, July & August. Total collection in August 2020 stood at Rs. 86,449 crore as against Rs. 98,202 crore in August 2019. The trend clearly indicates that the businesses are steadily returning back to normalcy!

    

36. I came a wonderful story of Instagram, where it had to copy feature from SnapChat because the standard set by instagram was too high & it was staring into possible oblivion. The founder tried to ward off for really long, as long as possible. This probably started a culture where instagram started copying features from others. Today instagram seems directionless… This story is part of the book “no filter” by Sarah Frier.

37. This is excellent rephrasing of a standard problem. You got to watch this.

    abhishek @abhishek_tri

    When men look at what women is wearing and go on to say ‘Well, she is asking for it’ Totally loved: you are wearing an arsenal tee, go and practice 😬 Brilliant piece of work @bbcthree

    

38. If Elon Musk can do cold outreach, anybody can. You too. Go write that email/tweet you have always wanted to.

    𝚃𝚛𝚞𝚗𝚐 𝙿𝚑𝚊𝚗 @TrungTPhan

    When @elonmusk sold Paypal (and cashed $165m), one of the first things he did was cold call a rocket expert (Jim Cantrell). Below is the text of the greatest cold outreach ever.

    

39. Now this is what great story telling looks like. Read this thread for a laugh.

    Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv

    OMG my brother in law, the gift that never stops giving, was tired of being sent to get rice every day so he decided buy in bulk, talked to the shop about it, wires got crossed, now there is a literal TRUCK FILLED WITH RICE outside the house and my sister is losing her shit lmfao

40. Here is Pradeep talking about finding Rust on Moon. Is this great news?

41. The reason Zoom rules the market in video conferencing? Its the founders obsession towards customer experience. Here is the founder getting in touch with a unhappy customer.

    Eric S. Yuan @ericsyuan

    @s_abtin @saranormous @zoom_us Hi Abtin, I am the CEO of Zoom. Our NPS score is 72 and we have tons of very happy users. If you can share me in detail, then I can write the code to fix the issue this long weekend. Cheers and have a great weekend.

42. Crazy how businesses try to dupe us. The digital pregnancy tests actually are just normal pregnancy strips with a battery. Read this thread to find how crazy it is.

    foone @Foone

    and yes, it's surprisingly hard to read. You'd think if they were sticking LEDs in the thing, they could have stuck one near the screen and given it a backlight. That'd at least help you read it.

    Then see Foone playing game on the same test device :)

    Shreemi Verma @shreemiverma

    Dharmendra comments on Bobby Deol's photos is the wholesome content I was looking for right now

    

    

    

43. A nice essay by Paul Graham on how life is Short & so you just cut all the Bull Shit from your life.

44. This is how you nail a job offer. Show real interest in the company, add value. The best founders are looking out for such people. They would do anything to get you onboard.

    Mishti (Vidushi Sharma) @m1shti

    I didn't even realize I was doing it at the time—but this is how I created my dream job at my dream company with @dksf and @highlightideas! I'm working on a guide to help people carry this out; DM me if you've done this and might want to collaborate :)

    

    

    

    Sahil @shl

    How to get a dream job at your dream company: Research the company. Use the product. Find the CEO's email online. Write a personable and specific email relaying your experience. Suggest some ideas, report a bug, or include a small UX improvement.

45. What a ride Bounce has been on. Here is a small thread from the founder himself on how they got here. Persistence!

    From Wicked Ride to MetroBikes to Bounce. If you stay at a problem long enough & keep experimenting, you will hit Gold.

    vivek @vivekanandahr

    Finally we met an angel who gave us USD 1.5 mil and it got wired in 15 days!!! Thanks to Vishal our banker and our Angel LG Chandrasekar, we built our first prototype of keyless scooter. Meanwhile we were in touch with sequoia for sometime now and they had seen us do things

    

    

    

46. Read this is to understand why coding is so damn difficult & why it is important to keep upgrading the code. This developer went to change a small thing in their hobby project which was running fine, but things kept breaking at many levels as the world had moved on since 2009 & lot of technologies had been deprecated or were unsupported. By the time the developer resolved all the issues & got the app to function, he had forgotten the purpose of it. Its a must read!

    Mislav Marohnić @mislav

    Now my server is booting ♻️ the web app is starting 🚀 SSL certificates are certificating 🔐 the database is migrating 📦 the stylesheets are cascading 💅 …but I can't remember anymore why I was doing any this in the first place

47. The above is true not just for software but also life in general. The world keeps marching at its own pace, the ones who don’t keep up are left behind.

    One of the reasons that the best jobs/work are going to remain outside the purview of established institutions & college degrees. The institutions by their very nature & structure can’t/aren’t nimble enough.

    Prashant Shah @Prashantshah267

    The end-product of education should be a free creative man, who can battle against historical circumstances and adversities of nature. - Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (2nd President of India) His birthday is celebrated as Teachers' Day. Happy Teachers' day to you all.

48. This is the thing, I want to become Rich not because it means money but because it means freedom. What’s written in this tweet is true for all the genders. In my opinion Girls have it easy coz they probably have a way-out in the name of Shaadi. The guys become un-marriageable material if they are not earning.

    Yashee @yasheesingh

    A lot of my women friends who lost jobs have had to return to hometowns, that much closer to shaadi pressure and to people trying to dictate their lives. For women, salaries are often the ONLY thing guaranting a degree of freedom. Heartbreaking to see the pandemic snatch that

49. See this tweet where a lady threatens to file false cases against Bank officials who have come to recover a loan. What makes a society be ok with this? Where is the fundamental flaw to this?

    Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj @DeepikaBhardwaj

    Bank employees go to collect loan payment. This woman threatens them with a #falserape & assault cases. Sheer misuse of beneficial laws made to protect women. Look at her audacity. She calls him MC, l*ude & more but threatens him of case instead. @DgpKarnataka Plz arrest her.

    

50. Wonderful projects. These structures move on their own like animals with just the wind. Awesome!

    Venkat Ramaswamy @VenkRamaswamy

    Could a neuroscientist understand a "beach animal"?

    

    Wonder of Science @wonderofscience

    These 'Beach Animals' were created by Theo Jansen as a fusion of art and engineering. The kinetic structures walk on their own and get all their energy from the wind. Full video: https://t.co/jj5sRxvrrh https://t.co/eofVYjTWRi

51. Raising money is not as important as what you do with that money.

    Paras Chopra @paraschopra

    A testimonial on advantages of being bootstrapped by a competitor in our industry :)

    

52. There was a time when I used to think that Simplicity for the sake it is stupidity. Now I understand, Simplicity for the sake of it, is Genius!

    pj @BeingPractical

    Product that does a many things. Product that does one thing, and does that one thing right. Which one you see and use more frequently.

    

    

53. Best advise for starups. Be honest. Be extraordinary. Be fast.

    Indus Khaitan @1ndus

    0/5 Startups die because of: - Fake Product-Market fit - Investor becomes boss - Co-Founder conflict - Becoming ordinary rather than extra-ordinary - Slow product development

54. Business Values of Nike.

    We are on the offense. All the time.

    Dangers - Knowing your Weakness.

    If we do the right things, we’ll make money damn automatic.

    Mckay Wrigley @mckaywrigley

    Nike’s 10 original business values.

    

55. This is really interesting. Getting kids to make presentations for goodies they want. This is an excellent skill building, communication & persuasion learning exercise. I don’t know if I would follow this, would take fun out & make it more professional?

    Smarter Every Day @smartereveryday

    My son giving a persuasive presentation about why he should be allowed to purchase his own dirt bike. Before our children are allowed to do something “big” they must persuade Mommy and Daddy that it will be good for the family and their own personal development. 1/5

    

56. So Google says running was invented in 1612. Well the computer has never went for a walk in the park, its just a proficient data skimming machine. Junk input = Junk output. Thinking about it, aren’t humans the same?

    Jeff Atwood @codinghorror

    Internet: working as designed

    

57. This is something that would change you for ever. Just make $1 off internet. It’s that simple.

    Jack Butcher @jackbutcher

    A tiny goal that will change your life: Make $1 on the internet.

    

58. This is a real cool product for kids, specially who are working on papers in a zoom class. This is quite a bit cumbersome due to the keyboard. How do we make it universal & friendly all-around.

    John Umekubo @jumekubo

    When your students and teachers need to project their work during Zoom sessions from home. These will go out to all our middle schoolers and their teachers. #remotelearning #documentcamera #laptop #3ddesign #design #designthinking @tinkercad

    

59. Humans are not rational beings. They are emotional beings. What kills us is not necessarily the news which sells. Its about which is more graphic & dramatic.

    Everybody is looking for some drama.

    Varun Khona @varunkhona

    What kills you isn't what makes sellable news.

    

60. How old are you? Have you ever dialled a phone number to find out the time?

    Mark Suster @msuster

    Lol. Sending this to my kids. Totally forgot about this. It was called “popcorn” and we called it all the time as kids to find out what time it was.

    

    Austin Rief ☕️ @austin_rief

    My parents just told me they used to call a number just to tell them the time and I could not be more thankful I live in 2020 now.

61. So basically levitation is possible at the right frequency. See this article where these scientists levitate a boat :)

62. Here is a GPT3 created faces from just an explanation.

    Shiv @shivkanthb

    Introducing GPT3 x GAN AI generated faces using natural language powered by GPT-3. Eg - "Generate a female face with blonde hair and green eyes" 👇 🤯

    

63. Probably your next side-project is going to be an idea from GPT3. GPT3 is the new sounding board.

    Ryan Hoover @rrhoover

    This GPT-3 powered startup idea generator might inspire your next side project (h/t @levelsio)

    

    producthunt.comIdeasAI - OpenAI-powered startup idea generator | Product HuntThis is my first app powered by OpenAI. It uses an autoregressive language model w/ deep learning to generate new product and business ideas. I hope you like it and get inspired!

64. Crazy trend going on Tamil Nadu where they wear T-shirts saying “Hindi Teriyadu, Poda!” (Don’t know Hindi, Go away!) & apparently these have been distributed by DMK political party also.

    One of the reasons we moved out of TamilNadu. To see this is really hurting.

    The Kaipullai @thekaipullai

    Hardworking TN Businessperson, who creates jobs, boosts the economy and does something good for TN : Learns Hindi, interacts with everyone and takes advantage of the huge Indian market Jobless people who contribute nothing to TN : T-shirts say saying, "Hindi Theriyadhu, Poda"

65. Isn’t it crazy the way opensource is revolutionising creating stuff with 3D printing. I am planning on installing a 3D printing in Home, if you know about them, would love to talk.

    Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 @RealSexyCyborg

    @MarineArmed @ohsummit Basically, anywhere in the world- you can download the plans for the most popular 3D printer in the world- CAD and everything, and sell it with or without changes, and call it anything you want- even Ender 3. Forever. No one can ever take that hardware away from the people.

    See how 3D printing has developed. Isn’t it crazy what collective curiosity of people can achieve.

    ragegun @_ragegun

    @MarineArmed @RealSexyCyborg @ohsummit As I recall, most 3D printers came out of the Rep Rap, which worked pretty much that way. It was a kit that could print most of it's own parts. And because it was open source, people were inspired to tinker and improve.

66. The way Bobby Deol has brought himself back is just amazing. Hats off to this guy.

    Shreemi Verma @shreemiverma

    Dharmendra comments on Bobby Deol's photos is the wholesome content I was looking for right now

    

    

    

67. Here is Visa’s advise on how to reach 10k followers on twitter.

    visa is cleaning out his notes @visakanv

    @donmexlar 1. tweet more 2. do uncommonly good replies to high-follower accounts and viral tweets 3. make your bio more pro-follower: say that you’re friendly and tell people what to talk to you about 4. if a tweet gets you followers, RT + update it (thread) periodically

68. Amazing tools available today for growth of kids. Here is a tool to teach Logic Building to kids.

    Arnav Gupta @championswimmer

    @cnha youtube.com/c/CodingBlocks… No Bill Gates ads, no bullshit. Isn't too serious either - we recommend taking it like a hobby rather than performance-monitored courseware. Check out the Python series. Logic building is what the focus is on.

    

    youtube.comCoding Blocks JuniorThe basic understanding of growth begins with a fine ability to think logically. Coding is fundamental in sharpening logical reasoning and think creatively. ...

69. This amazing story of how a doctor connects with a cobbler, saying both are in the craft of stitching. Hats off.

    Dr. Sujay Shad @drSujayShad

    Me: do you get good, regularly spaced perfect stitches when you work? He: very proudly, each time perfect. Me: with a wink and smile, ME TOO. He broke into the widest smile and all could see despite his mask. 8.

70. Amazing people from all over the world have helped me in countless ways. Pay it forward.

    Ashok Lalla @ashoklalla

    Be this person.

    

71. Tiktok makes sure to get 100views to every video. Thats their minimum engagement level to properly tag the video & get early engagement metrics. Awesome hack!

    Use technology as a leveller.

    Ada Yeo @adayeoyh

    Tiktok is the most meritocratic media network. Talked to a PM at Tiktok who said every video gets 100 views. The early engagement on those determines how quickly it accelerates to the next threshold. So every video starts off on an equal footing, and has a chance to go viral.

72. Mindblowing answers to this question of hacking non-technical systems in the real word.

    The best of which is this person travelling to Europe five times in a period of ten months. All by finding a way to win scholarships by writing essays. Beyond awesome!

73. The above story is from Abhishek Nayak & here he writes about how he cold-emailed the founder of RedBus, sold him an Idea & started on a wonderful journey.

    Abhishek Nayak @arey_abhishek

    10yrs ago I sent a cold email to @phanindrasama that changed mine and @mohanarpit's life. I graduated a few months later and started GharPay, with redBus as our first customer. Forever grateful to Phani for taking a chance on us! 🙏

    

74. Lets have a society like Star Trek. I am so happy someone is working in that direction.

    Bobak Ferdowsi @tweetsoutloud

    And not only that, but if you tweet #StarTrekUnitedGives, @StarTrekcbs will donate a dollar to organizations working toward that future of equality, social justice, and scientific advancements. So tell your stories of @StarTrek using the hashtag. Here’s mine (thread):

75. Think about this & tell. Are billionaires really bad?

    Andreas Ehn @ehn

    If you talk all of Jeff Bezos's wealth, assuming he could liquidate it, and gave it to the US government, it would spend it in 16 days. Not much would change in terms of government services, but we would no longer have Amazon, nor, probably, the next Amazon.

76. Amazing story of how a military veteran became a software developer. All you need is some good friends & freeCodeCamp.org

    Quincy Larson @ossia

    How a military veteran in Florida went from call center employee to software engineer. I just stumbled upon this story in a Reddit thread. I am really happy for this person. reddit.com/r/learnprogram…

    

    

    

    

77. I wish somebody had explained this to me. Growth is never linear. All learning will have times of Peak & Troughs.

    Visualize Value @visualizevalue

    Theory vs. practice.

    

78. The way the government is trying to widen tax net is completely not done. The first thing that govt needs to do is tax Agriculture above a threshold but in vote bank politics we know thats not going to happen.

    Sriram @Raminations

    What kind of debauchery is this? A remittance requires TDS? Why? If my son is studying abroad and I remit fees and expenses why would I pay TDS? And why that remittance be from Income at all?It could be from savings. Something is amiss. Is this govt bankrupt?

    

    Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha

    There is going to be a 5% TDS for remitting more than Rs 7lks/year for purpose of investing from Oct 1st, 2020. While this TDS can be set-off against other taxes this is another deterrent after bank charges, currency spreads, & physical remittance process https://t.co/49NlPZDuKo

79. The best investments happen, when they invest in people. Not on the business & idea. Read this memo by bvp on the same.

    I can only recollect the passionate dialogue in “Rocket Singh” movie, where he says. Business is just people & main jahan dekhoon wahan log dikhte hain, bahut complicated nahi hai.

80. Logo designing & Branding is a breath-taking world of its own. Here is where the Tesla logo is inspired from.

    Azhar Jafri @zhr_jafri

    TIL on Reddit, Tesla logo is a part of the cross section of an electric motor

    

81. A different prespective. There is no recession in hotel rooms selling at 76,000/- per night. There are segments where price doesn’t matter. A wonderful startup completely hidden from the regular world. These solutions come from working at a problem really long & tinkering around with it until it breaks & reveals the Pot of Gold.

    Ashish K. Mishra @akm1410

    Everyone will have their favourite parts from today's interview with Kapil Chopra. For me, this was revealing. @MorningContext

    

    

82. Wonderful post for Ankur on what is the right approach towards starting a startup.

    The idea is simple. Get market validation & crack the marketing first.

    Ankur Warikoo @warikoo

    Validate your startup idea in less than 14 days and less than Rs. 5,000 A thread...

83. Its not just about consuming as much as possible.

    Shlok Gupta 🐺 @shlokafc

    I needed to hear this “Consuming more information doesn’t necessarily make you more competent”

    Deeper words have never been said.

    Aditya Behere @BehereBaba

    @shlokafc The ointment of knowledge seeps better if you have the scars of experience

84. I just had a mind-blowing idea for unmaskyoursmile.in yesterday. Is this where it was subconciously inspired from?

    Humans love their own face.

    Kunal Shah @kunalb11

    1) humans love their own face 2) all products used for face are usually high on gross margin 3) masks are here to stay for a while It’s likely that masks would soon become a status product from a mere utility which happened to spectacles and become a big market.

85. The cost of not setting a culture which takes its deadlines seriously could be too great to measure. People should be self driven & work without followup.

    Vineeta Singh @runophilia

    If each employees spends an hour/day on internal followups, a 300 ppl co. roughly spends 3cr a year on this + the opportunity cost. Add cost of resultant mental stress & politics! Just instilling a work ethic around honouring of deadlines can leave people with more time to build

86. New times have new problems. How do you get a economical version of a HDMI camera connector?

    Eugene Wei @eugenewei

    I just switched to using a used mirrorless camera as my webcam. And took a shot on this HDMI-to-USB stick to connect the camera to my computer. Less than $20. And it works fine! You don't need to spend $130 on an Elgato camlink which is sold out anyway.

    

    amzn.toAmazon.com: Audio Video Capture Cards - HDMI to USB 2.0 - High Definition 1080p 30fps - Record Directly to Computer for Gaming, Streaming, …Buy Audio Video Capture Cards - HDMI to USB 2.0 - High Definition 1080p 30fps - Record Directly to Computer for Gaming, Streaming, Teaching, Video Conference or Live Broadcasting: Internal TV Tuner & Capture Cards - Amazon.com ✓ FREE DELIVERY possible on eligible purchases

87. A story from Mahabaleshwar about Mapro Foods & how they use their Mapro Park, a tourist park for effective branding & new taste testing. Indigenous I say. The solutions are often simpler than we think.

88. This pandemic has put fire under Time. Its forcing people to think new ways & device new solutions. The learning/teaching is already seeing a lot of tinkering & many different models are coming out.

    Sridhar Vembu @svembu

    1/ A few months ago, I started to informally tutor some village children because all schools were closed. Within a few days, my social-distanced open air class swelled from 3 kids to 25 and kids got unruly and I was struggling 😂 and realized how hard it is to be a teacher 🙏🙏

89. If your household income is more than Rs. 1 lakh per month, you are in the top 1% of the country. Understand your privilege.

    D.Muthukrishnan @dmuthuk

    If your household income is more than Rs.1 lakh per month, you are among the richest 1% of the country.

    

90. A text message or email can never convey the energy & emotions the way they are meant to be. Even phone calls or video calls fall short for the same matter. Distance leads to differences.

    Semil @semil

    .@benthompson on possible effects of remote/distributed work on startup/tech culture: "not being in person increases the possibility of petty grievances rising to the forefront, and reduces the likelihood of a sense of shared purpose overcoming obstacles."

91. Facebook is giving away a grant of 68k cash & 32k in ad-credits to help small businesses tackle the problems of pandemic. All you need a GST & PAN number to be eligible. Enroll yourself for the program here.

92. The marketing of the brand @fast is on point. Need to learn from this guys on creating hype & investing in customer success as a strategy.

    Fast 🚀 @fast

    We hiked up a mountain so that we could give you a free @Gillette razor. Watch so we can hook you up.

    

93. Is this the future of AR/VR with real life experience. I can already see this as a hit for the vlogger & onlyfans kind of community.

    Nicchiban @Nicchiban_

    The future is now.

    

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1. Genius UX is often simple. Painting a safe area in contextual menus is great idea. We have all faced problems with this.

   Andreas Eldh @eldh

   Fun little detail that just landed in @linear_app: When navigating in the contextual menu it’s now easier to move the mouse to sub-menus, since we paint out a little “safe area” between the cursor and the menu. (The area is highlighted in the clip.)

   

2. See what goes into designing a simple Date input user-experience. Every user should read this short piece to understand how difficult this job is.

3. Here is a good system to design the UX for your website & wireframe it.

4. HTML can do great things. Here is a simple thread on various capabilities of HTML, in no way exhaustive.

   Ankur💚JavaScript @TheAnkurTyagi

   HTML is more capable than ever before. Some Great HTML Stuff For You– and how to use them Here are the elements you should be making use of today. Thread 🧵 #100DaysOfCode

5. What is HTML without CSS? Here is some nice explanation on what various attributes of the ‘position’ property do. Read it here in this blog.

6. If you have wanted to remove background from your photos & create png’s for the same. Here is a nice tool for that.

   Florin Pop 👨🏻‍💻 @florinpop1705

   If you ever want to remove background from your photos I highly recommend remove.bg Just used it to remove myself from my room and even tho' it was pretty crowded, it did the job perfectly!

   

7. Keep searching random words on google for inspiration for your next creative project? Here is INSPO which is attempting to solve this. It would be really wonderful if they can solve this, I just hope they don’t become just another tool everyone ignores. Read about INSPO here.

   Reading the above article I also came to know about HAIKUJAM.

   HaikuJAM is a creative writing app that lets you ‘jam’ with other writers around the world. You write a line and other writers will complete it to create a three line poem. Today, HaikuJAM is used by over 1 million creators from 144 countries who have collectively published over 100 million lines, with 1 line being published every second in the app. There are over 10 million unique associations in the corpus, and this grows at over 12,000 new associations per day.

8. Learn some trick photography here to make awesome pictures & Social Media posts.

9. This is interesting, don’t sort books based on average ratings. Sort them based on % of people rating it 5 or 4, etc…. Also are the ratings consistent?

   Paras Chopra @paraschopra

   A way to discover “hidden gems” for books and movies. Don’t sort by average ratings. Avg rating 3 can be had if everyone rates 3 or if half rate 5 and half rate 1. Instead, sort by <% of people rating 5> / <% of people rating 4>. What other cuts will be interesting?

10. Here is a WhatsApp based fundraising Bootcamp. Go signup for this if you need some help with this.

11. Scholarship program from VisualizeValue. Go for it guys or refer if you know somebody.

    Jack Butcher @jackbutcher

    Setting up a scholarship program for @visualizevalue. If you know anyone who's doing this well in the online learning space, please share!

12. Intro helps companies find an alternative source of capital which is non-dilutive. Check this out if you want that.

    Jason Garcia @SirJRG

    INTRO helps companies discover and access alternative funding options easily It takes ~3 minutes to create a profile Most companies have multiple options You can start your profile here:

    

    intro.meINTROIntro educates and introduces founders to alternative sources of capital to support and scale their businesses.

13. Why don’t they teach this when learning to code!!! This is a life saver.

    When "console-logging" several variables, you can wrap them in curly brackets to better see which value belongs to which variable.

    Tomek Sułkowski @sulco

    #JavaScript tip for today: When "console-logging" several variables, you can wrap them in curly brackets to better see which value belongs to which variable. A small thing, but hey.

    

    There is also console.table Wow!

    Tomek Sułkowski @sulco

    @ggascoigne If this is not too nested, doing console.table instead of .log might do the trick for you

    

14. Create AI generated compelling Ad copy at taglines.ai

15. The Collab Lab is a awesome concept that helps early developers in learning to work in teams & network. Their new cohort is starting, apply here.

16. Remember we talked about people hacking the Name field in LinkedIn to include functions, emojis etc… The best way to make sure your code is not breakable by such instances is to have validations in place. Read here about various validations in node.js

17. I always wondered why images are in SVG, what is the use of it. I am amazed at what all is possible with SVG.

    Akash bhandwalkar @__akash__19

    SVG practice, Properties used so far - fill - stroke-dasharray - stroke-dashoffset Reference: youtube.com/watch?v=0cYdA4… @CodePen: codepen.io/__akash__19/pe… #100DaysOfCode

    

    Now that you want to learn it. Here is where you can start.

    Manaswini @thisismanaswini

    @atalpatelme Here's a helpful playlist on YouTube :

    

    youtube.comA beginners guide to SVG | Part One: The Why, What, and HowThere are a lot of good reasons that we should be using SVGs, but they can seem complicated and scary. This video, which is part one of a mini-series explori...

18. Amazing way to make animated Indian flag.

    Ekta Maurya @curlmuhi

    Day 75: I was making something else but something else happened. 😂💁 Learned a lot by making this, and I'm happy with it. 😍 I'm still stuck on my previous code.😔 #100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie #girlswhocode #DevCommunityIN @DevCommunityIN

    

19. Apparently Google has started tracking page length change, which mostly happens due to images not getting loaded properly. Here is a great thread on how to upload the images properly in a webpage.

20. Ever searched for pngs? Here is the easiest way to know which image is a png & which is not.

    Arslan Khalid @thearslankhalid

    Always set width and height on the img tag. Why? You might have noticed jumps in pages when loading. It is because the height of the image is not set explicitly and it affects UX / SEO. Google has also started measuring these shifts in a metric named Cumulative Layout Shift.

    

21. Every searched for a png online? Here is the easiest way to know which image is png & which is not.

    Prado 📚 "The Story Guy" @pradologue

    @pallavi_benawri How to know if the picture is transparent: Hold & Drag the picture around

    

    By the way remove.bg, removes background from images to make a png.

22. If you are looking for a tool to make podcasts easily. Spext App could be it.

23. Some of the best free tools for writing, Social-Media, etc…

    Pepper @Pepper_Content

    Some of the best FREE tools: Writing: Grammarly ProWritingAid Thesaurus .com Wordcounter Quip Hemmingway Editor Small Seo Tools - Plagiarism Checker Designing: Canva Crello Illustrio Easily Piktochart Pablo (1/3)

24. A nice tool to generate css code for neumorphic buttons.

    Pulkit Jasti ⚔️ @JastiPulkit

    Project 11: Neumorphism CSS Code Generator 🎨 I just love this UI design trend called as #Neumorphism, So I built a tool to simplify the process of generating #CSS code for Neumorphism UI Link to live version 👇 neumorphism-generator.netlify.app #100DaysOfCode #javascript #50JSprojects

    

25. Use relative units to keep your webpage inherently responsive.

    Adam Argyle @argyleink

    .logo { display: flex; place-items: center; gap: .5ch; font-size: 20vmin; } .logo > img { max-block-size: 1.25em; } 🤩 logo img height is 125% of a responsive font-size (20vmin) letter M.. relative units are so cool! codepen.io/argyleink/pen/…

    

26. Kawa space is opening up its platform of Space data for people to play with. This is really exciting, wish I could takeup on this.

    Kris Nair @krisnair

    Psst; We are opening up our platform to Product, Data and Tech teams. If you want to use realtime intelligence from Space for your business, DM me. We’ll provision a Dev account for you.

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The biggest news so far. Signs of life discovered on Venus. Now a really amazing journey begins.

Paras Chopra @paraschopra

Signs of life discovered on Venus' atmosphere. Scientists will be announcing it today! You can read more here: archive.is/L7MT1 Super stoked about potentially having planetary neighbours :) https://t.co/HdqWNcTyAd

AAS Press Office @AAS_Press

RAS: Media Invited to Discuss Groundbreaking Astronomy Result on September 14 https://t.co/5u8FEdN6cy