Aparna

Curating tweets to unfold my curiosity.

Learning to write👇

[Aparna @aparnata_]

True courage is being completely comfortable in one's own skin.

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

When it comes to making successful products in the real world, your MBA training is often holding you back. A problematic curriculum, an obsession with case-studies, and class participation grades are the key culprits.

A 5-minute breakdown on this topic: https://t.co/9TWnxhBwJs

[David Haber @dhaber]

In the past, many vertical software companies were started by domain experts who added technical capacity later.

Now it’s the inverse. AI-native startups are led by technical founders who hire for context early.

AI delivers differentiation. Context drives defensibility.

[Lee Robinson @leerob]

things I believe:

- shipping fast beats the best strategy
- speed is a superpower
- create a bias toward shipping
- small teams ship faster
- ai-native teams will move 10x faster than those not willing to change
- landings > launches (i.e. product adoption > shipping code)
- listen, build, ship, tell the customer, then repeat forever
- you have no career ceiling
- grit > talent
- there’s no substitute for putting in the hours
- get 1% better every day
- be ruthlessly truth seeking
- the truth can be painful
- you can just change your mind if wrong
- have strong opinions, loosely held
- maximize your exposure hours
- “anecdata” > data
- seek the collective truth, not just one opinion
- communication is the job
- clear writing is clear thinking
- everyone (yes, you) needs to become a better writer
- leaders step up to provide clarity when absent
- be the person taking notes, even if it’s just for yourself
- mismatched expectations lead to sadness
- anticipate objections before hitting send, then address them
- education is the best form of developer marketing
- be authentic and own your failures
- never use the word “webinar” ever again
- being helpful compounds
- leadership means owning outcomes beyond the org chart
- influence > titles
- leaders have to do the work themselves *and* delegate
- you can write your own playbook
- study what worked for others, then take your own path
- work can also be your hobby
- this doesn’t mean you can’t have other hobbies
- passion + boundaries > mythical “work-life balance”
- your best work comes from following your curiosity
- demos > memos
- you could have built a prototype in @v0 during the meeting
- only ship things you’re excited about yourself
- hiring is what separates good leaders from great
- there are two hiring answers: hell yes or no
- growth potential > current skill
- hire people you can learn from
- hire people you would someday be happy working for
- favorite interview question: what work are you most proud of?
- always try to assume good intent
- lead with empathy
- they might just be having a bad day
- criticism is good feedback if you listen unemotionally

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

You can’t outsource drive. You can only design for it.

I used to think you could teach hard work.

That if you said the right thing or set the right goal, people would suddenly start pushing themselves. But I’ve never seen it work that way. Not once.

What I have seen is this: the people who work hardest don’t need convincing. They don’t need speeches. They just need the right environment.

And that’s the part nobody tells you. Hard work isn’t a personality trait. It’s energy management. It’s not about discipline or hustling or some deep moral virtue, it’s about what your system reinforces.

I’ve worked with people who looked lazy on one team and became unstoppable on another. Same person. Different environment.

So here’s my rant: we waste too much time trying to motivate people when we should be asking what are we rewarding? what are we tolerating? what energy are we shaping?

Yes, some people just don’t want to work hard. You can’t convince someone who doesn’t want it.

But most people do want to do great work they’re just stuck in systems that deaden effort.

Want hard work? Design for it. Create a culture where ownership is real, feedback is fast, and the cost of apathy is visible.

Make the truth travel fast. Make the mission real. Make the work matter.

That’s the only way I’ve seen it happen.

You don’t light the fire. You remove everything that stops it from catching.

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

For ever ♾️

#rolandgarros @RafaelNadal

[Rafa Nadal @RafaelNadal]

Merci la France 🇫🇷, merci Paris!

😘 @rolandgarros

[Aparna @aparnata_]

Culture is a memory of why decisions were made.

[Aparna @aparnata_]

The future of enterprise tech is being re-architected around AI, but it's not what you read in flashy AI announcements.

Here's my analysis of YC's W25 batch which reveals where the real innovation is happening.
https://t.co/vQ3xaafiGs

[Aparna @aparnata_]

2022 & 2023: AI has great potential.
2024: Yes, AI has great potential, but at what cost?

Here's a summary of the recent findings around this topic.
https://t.co/P9v8DX5136

[Tennis TV @TennisTV]

There's just Sumit about Nagal on clay 🧱

History for @nagalsumit as he becomes the first-ever male Indian singles player to win a Masters 1000 match on clay!

#RolexMonteCarloMasters

[Brian Feroldi @BrianFeroldi]

RIP Charlie Munger

I'll always remember him for this talk he gave on the Psychology of Human Misjudgement.

If you have an hour, it's well worth the time:

[Aparna @aparnata_]

ChatGPT plugin was realeased just a few days back.
If you are exploring ways to leverage GPT-4 for your SaaS business, here are few simple ways you can get started:
https://t.co/mOL49ulpve

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

It never gets old 🏆

#RolandGarros | @RafaelNadal

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

A legendary moment.

@RafaelNadal 🏆🇪🇸 #AO2022

[Aparna @aparnata_]

5 of 5 stars to Ways of Seeing by John Berger https://t.co/Tiv8ka90tZ

[Naveen .H @naavh]

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[ashwini asokan @LadyAshBorg]

Thought I’d take a few mins to share some ‘small autonomous teams win’ analogy to startups who can treat teams as small units who can be helped, prepared ahead of the madness coming up. This is not the peak. The peak is yet to come. So prepare. HR, Ops, Founding teams 👇🏽<thread>

[Aparna @aparnata_]

@moulidorai @naavh Related reading: https://t.co/RwwZk8M4at

[Aparna @aparnata_]

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[Aparna @aparnata_]

Something I observed in Zoho over the years..

- R&D over S&M
- Nurturing intellectual capital instead of acquiring it
- Investing in communities
- Compounding over growth hacking

Article source: https://t.co/Af5DyrVl3U