Ushma Kapadia

Content Writer. Social Media Intelligence. Consumer Insights. Aspiring for-profit-social-entrepreneur. Coffee-fanatic. Forever learning!

[Ushma Kapadia @FunMustBeHad]

#NoteToSelf Heard in context of state of Social Media expression today - "There seem to be more people behind the lectern these days than in the audience."

Takes one back to a decade ago, when consumable content did exist on SM platforms.

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A book I read in my 30's and never stopped recommending, ever since. https://t.co/d4s59atMB3

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Trying time for residents, now stretched to over 6 years.

[Amit Vyas 🇮🇳 @vyasamit2007]

@CMOMaharashtra @narendramodi @Dev_Fadnavis @BJP4India
Critical water crisis in Riverdale Heights society, Pune! Due to corruption in PMC, we haven't received a single drop of water from last 6 years. Water mafias are also not able to deliver water now!
#PMC #PMCCorruption

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@ICICIBank_Care service request # SR049793165

1.5 months gone, account opening still not done.

What stops your team/s from giving a date by when account will be opened?

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That one day every monsoon when Bombay shuts down. Looks like it's today, this year. Where are those MilanSubway pics? #MumbaiRains

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@Wooden_street Made mistake of ordering again, from WS. Order # 891198. When can I expect delivery? Website live support does not have an answer... asking me to "wait for some time".

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@khanzubare 'We are a developing economy' is a long-wailed defence, will continue to be as long as zero accountability of elected leaders continues.

[books 📖 @bookpoets]

“the broken will always love harder than most”

[Psychodoctor @Psychodoctor06]

The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world.

There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor.

But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along.

People who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents.

Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around.

-Leo Buscaglia

..............

Everyone can contribute in some way to the life of people around them.

How have you contributed today ?

[Ushma Kapadia @FunMustBeHad]

@JDaviesPhD Telling myself "One day at a time", every single minute, every single day

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Meetings about meetings.
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!

Overmanagement.
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!

Office politics.
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!

Politics politics.
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!

Software that makes things harder.
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!

Wrapped up in red tape.
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!

Too many people involved.
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!

Decisions down from the out-of-touch.
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!

Drive-by feedback.
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!

Chat chat chat chat chat.
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!

Process that's holding me back.
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!

Co-workers who are phoning it in.
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!

Responsibility without power.
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!

Zoom gloom.
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!

Calendar Tetris.
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!

Notification overload.
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!

Debating meaningless vs. meaningless.
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!

JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!
JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!

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@AiyyoShraddha

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

When life gets you down and you feel unloved and worthless, just remember you’ll be dead one day.
Have a great weekend.

[Natasha Malpani 👁 @natashamalpani]

huge appreciation for the work @BlumeVentures and @ElevCap is doing to understand how the indian consumer is (rapidly!) evolving in real-time in terms of behavior, preferences and willingness to pay

we need multiple lenses- economic, sectoral, demographic + psychographic- to solve for the many indias unfolding

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@EasyDrySystems Having come across the brand on my now, I'm now ALSO doing all the follow up required to get it installed. Disappointing experience with a 10+ year old company. And fingers crossed in fear, hoping I never need after-sales service from your team. #CustomerSupport

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@spuriousmallu Had the same experience across SG and ME. Always wondered why... maybe I'm too native to figure (shrug).

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

– Charles Bukowski

[Samuel C W Hart @samuelcwhart]

As the only one in my friendship group who's single and without kids, I know what it's like to feel lonely.

I live alone and I'm a seasoned lone traveller, solitary cafe go-er and solo diner.

Here's 10 things I remind myself to do on those days when I'm feeling isolated.

🧵

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

At twenty, you don’t get the life you deserve, you are just the product of the environment you were lucky or unlucky to have.

Then, as you get older, and enter your thirties, forties, and beyond, you notice how much agency you actually had on your life.

Maybe you moved abroad, learned another language, another culture, another mindset, and became an entirely different person.

Maybe you decided you had nothing to lose, and invested all your meager savings into the bet of a lifetime, and it worked out.

Maybe you changed all your habits, and realized that you could be much healthier, smarter, stronger than you thought, if you simply maintain a better diet, a better training, a better sleep, a better routine.

Maybe you fell in love, and realized that a great marriage was about so much more than physical attraction and intellectual compatibility: if you find yourself walking alongside with a kind, thoughtful, honest person who loves you back, you actually won the lottery.

Maybe you met some great people during your journey, shared with them parts of your journey, overcame difficult challenges together, finally understood the real meaning of “friendship,” and that some people are worth trusting and making sacrifices for.

Maybe you also had health issues, lost a few precious people that you loved, understood the fragility of life and the pain that comes with truly loving someone else, but also finally gained enough wisdom to appreciate the simple things in life, that are free and in abundance.

It’s a long journey. The best and the worst things will happen to you. You can choose to act like a victim, or you can choose to respect yourself and be more resilient, mentally stronger, overall better. In the end, you will look back, you will connect the dots, and it will all make sense, that you got exactly what you deserved.

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@iyerrony

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@mumbaiheritage So much energy spent in unnecessary, token changes. Go change what is crying for change since decades, first. If at all, start renaming after putting the suburb right.