Bought a Mac from @Apple. Invoiced Mar 28, delivered & activated Apr 1. @AppleSupport completely refused to start my warranty from the delivery date. Their administrative team blatantly stated that internal company policy overrides the Consumer Protection Act 2019! 🤯
Hear me out…
Two years back I joined X because I was tired….
Tired of jobs being posted on LinkedIn and within 1 hour of that, 100s of people had already applied. Everyone on LinkedIn was fake, trying to show how they were well-rounded and highly skilled. I barely made any REAL connections there.
Tired of tech influencers on Instagram saying, “COMMENT HI AND I WILL SEND YOU THIS IN YOUR DM,” just to increase their reach. I kept following them, commenting on their reels, getting the material in my DMs, and never really looking at it.
Then there was the cold email era where you send out 1000s of cold emails to recruiters, startup founders, and people in tech to either get a job or get some assistance for your startup. But let’s be honest, out of those 1000 emails, only 10–15 people (max) would reply.
But then there was X, where everyone is just being themselves. Even the most skilled people in your domain feel reachable here. Yes, there are a lot of shitposters, but there are also people who are really, really working hard and building something.
Hence, @shrav_10 and I are creating an X Chat for everyone interested in STARTUPS or TECH, where there will be only REAL tech talk.
We all can post important resources, job openings, and literally even collaborate and discuss startup ideas.
If you’re willing to actually GROW and NETWORK with the right kind of people here on X, then comment/quote/repost anything on this post and I’ll add you to the group chat.
Like I said, the right guidance and network can change your life forever!
Drishtibution book recommendations:
> the alchemist: story about following your dreams
> the let them theory by mel robbins
> 48 laws of power
> mastery: how the greats actually got great; deliberate practice; the long game
> tuesdays with morrie: a small book about what matters at the end
> the secret: law-of-attraction
> bhagvad gita
> animal farm
> the elements of style: how to be better writer with taste
> hacking growth: for the growth-experiment engine behind breakout startups
> unseen: zomato story
> can't hurt me by david goggins
> meditations: marcus aurelius' journal
> on the shortness of life: seneca's stoic essay arguing we're not given a short life, we waste a long one
> behave: sapolsky on why humans do what they do, from neurons to culture
> the creative act by rick rubin
One of my college professors used to say "anything worth doing is worth doing poorly." I didn't understand that for years because I didn't do anything poorly, I couldn't do anything poorly, I had to Do Everything Perfectly.
But brushing your teeth for 30 seconds is better than not brushing them at all when that 2 minutes seems exhausting. Doing ten minutes of yoga is better than 10 minutes of sitting when 30 minutes of cardio sounds impossible.
Changing my clothes is good when a whole shower is impossible. Standing on the porch for a few minutes is worth it after being in the house for three straight days because I don't have the energy to go anywhere.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly... because doing it poorly is better than not doing it.
Your entire life will change when you realize that nobody is thinking about you. I often wonder how many extraordinary people waste their entire lives fearing the judgement of people who were never even thinking about them in the first place. Fearing a spotlight that was never even on. Performing for an audience that was never even there. Because the truth is that you aren't afraid of failure. Not really. You're afraid of other people seeing you fail. You're afraid of what other people will think of you if you fail. But nobody is thinking about you. Everybody is too busy thinking about themselves. So, that thing you've always wanted to do? Go do it.
Bought a Mac from @Apple. Invoiced Mar 28, delivered & activated Apr 1. @AppleSupport completely refused to start my warranty from the delivery date. Their administrative team blatantly stated that internal company policy overrides the Consumer Protection Act 2019! 🤯