nikhil

Currently building Trails, previously co-founded Topic (acquired by Raptive) and TINT (acquired by @filestack).

[nikhil @Aitharaju]

@emilshour @andyfieb Excited, looking forward to the great content you have to share!

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Mindset Shift: Learning by doing.

The traditional model: Learn—>Do.

The better way: Do—>Learn—>Do.

You’ll always learn more in the trenches than from any classroom, book, or course.

People with a bias for action will always have a competitive advantage.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

How to Win (without talent or luck):

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Adopt a Process Orientation

Prioritize process, not outcomes.

When you prioritize process, you become flexible in where you are headed—you focus on the inputs and stop worrying about the outputs.

Just keep laying one brick at a time—forward progress is all that matters.

[James Sowers 📦 @jamesrsowers]

#Tweet100

Marketing Tip:

Instead of just focusing on churning out new content, schedule time to go back and update old content. It's often faster and easier to get an existing piece to climb the rankings compared to getting a new article to rank.

Here's some proof:

[Wise Chimp @wise_chimp]

10. "Fast, lift, sprint, stretch, and meditate. Build, sell, write, create, invest, and own. Read, reflect, love, seek truth, and ignore society. Make these habits. Say no to everything else. Avoid debt, jail, addiction, disgrace, shortcuts, and media. Relax. Victory is assured."

[Ysa Gonzales @ysagonzales_]

Just wanted to share: Topic's People Also Ask tool is such an amazing alternative to Answer the Public.

It goes beyond the focus keyword to find related questions and uses google's "People Also Ask" data to generate results. The best part? It's free!

https://t.co/ZIF70rzlc0

[nikhil @Aitharaju]

@marievonboran Thanks for trying it out. The tool works really well for popular topics, as you go niche it can definitely go off rails. It also doesn’t work well with the latest trending topics since the training data is not up to date.

[Ascendant Power @AscendantPower]

One of the single greatest life improvements occurs when you start pricing everything in terms of the things that are actually valuable to you.

Time, freedom, joy, etc.

Not fiat currency.

[nikhil @Aitharaju]

Thanks to @ryochiba

[Shaun | The Financing Guy @ShaunTiwari]

Fantastic landing page video explaining the benefits of @usetopic - SEO optimizer.

Based on that I'll give them a try.

Should help w/our SEO and inbound marketing campaigns.

VIDEOS are powerful. Use them.

https://t.co/0tGhmvO0v3

[nikhil @Aitharaju]

Ever wondered how long should your blog post be?

We just released a free tool to predict the perfect length for your next post.

Try it for free → https://t.co/1QOur4OpUh

[nikhil @Aitharaju]

@digitalquokka Really cool space! I started going back to Wework for the same reason lol.

[nikhil @Aitharaju]

@BimalRebba @joinClubhouse Probably, however, some of the conversations are really good. Background music and expressions aren't super important or relevant imo.

[nikhil @Aitharaju]

Love your writing!

[nikhil @Aitharaju]

Really well written post on escaping the rat race! https://t.co/uh6Fqii2Ng @iam__prashanth

[10-K Diver @10kdiver]

1/

Get a cup of coffee.

In this thread, I'll help you understand Markov Chains.

In life, and in investing, we often come across situations where luck/chance plays a major role.

And Markov Chains are often a great way to model and analyze such situations.

[David Perell @david_perell]

If there’s anything I’ve learned as a bootstrapped entrepreneur it’s that 99% of the time, you should choose simplicity over optimization.

Optimization can be dangerous because you get the benefits up-front and pay the costs later.

Then, the complexity spirals out of control.

[nikhil @Aitharaju]

@jamesrsowers @Ashread_ Thanks James for the shout out. @Ashread_ happy to help in case you want to give Topic a try :)

[nikhil @Aitharaju]

@inboundy On the flip side, don’t you think it could be helpful for companies to prevent fake account creation on their platforms?

[nikhil @Aitharaju]

Going forward we will be prioritizing simplicity over complexity. User experience over product expansion.

[nikhil @Aitharaju]

Do you fall into the trap of building more features? More features can have diminishing returns or even negative returns. Improving an existing feature or removing unused features can benefit your customers a lot more than you imagine.

[nikhil @Aitharaju]

After having multiple conversations with our users, it was clear to us that having a broader feature set is going to slow us down and make our product less simple to use.