Shamitha Raj

Tell me why.

[Shamitha Raj @shamitharaj]

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[Joakim 🌹🇳🇴🇪🇺 @joakial_]

New ad by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products.

[Shamitha Raj @shamitharaj]

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[Shamitha Raj @shamitharaj]

Completely agree!

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Call me a Luddite, I couldn’t care less. Technology is eating the world.

[Shamitha Raj @shamitharaj]

This is 100% accurate!

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

This. ⬇️

[Nimish Dubey @nimishdubey]

One of the greatest bhajans in the history of Indian cinema.
Composed by a Muslim.
Sung by a Muslim.
To music set by a Muslim.

The wonder that was India.

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

Odyssey is in news, so here's something about Achilles that I discovered only recently. Prior to reading Stephen Fry's 4-book series on Greek mythology (Mythos, Heroes, Troy, Odyssey), my limited awareness of Achilles was related to
'Achilles Heel'. After reading the books, I realized that Achilles was one of the greatest and mightiest warriors in Greek mythology and played a pivotal role in the Trojan War.

But, it turns out that his mother, the divine sea nymph Thetis, presented him with two choices:
1. A short, glorious life: Fight in the Trojan War, achieve immortal fame and undying glory (kleos), but die young.
2. A long, anonymous life: Return home to Phthia, live to an old age in peace and obscurity, and eventually be forgotten.

He knowingly chooses the first.

Later in Odyssey, Odysseus meets Achilles in the Underworld (where Achilles' soul resides after his death). While Achilles does not explicitly say, "I chose wrongly" or reflect on those two alternatives, he does utter one of the most famous lines in Greek literature: "Do not try to comfort me about death... I would rather be a hired servant to a poor man on earth than rule over all the dead in the Underworld".

This is a profound shift in perspective. The greatest warrior, who sacrificed a long life for a shorter life and eternal glory, now says that peaceful, obscure life is preferable to the greatest death.

To be sure, Achilles does not renounce glory. His fame has endured exactly as promised. Nor does he explicitly regret choosing a short life. But his choice and eventual regret does offer a valuable lesson that continues from my post yesterday, on the meaning of ordinariness and contentment.

Achilles spent his life rejecting the ordinary in pursuit of immortality. In death, he discovers that the ordinary was the only thing truly worth having. Our civilization consistently mistakes the extraordinary for the meaningful. But recovering the ability to see wonder in the ordinary is what we missed. Homer seems to arrive at the same place. After celebrating the greatest hero who ever lived, he lets that very hero admit that a nameless laborer with another sunrise is richer than the most celebrated man in history who has none.

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

Life of human is cheaper than the life of a cow in India

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

"Why does our top performer get the worst reviews?" the boss asked.

I was reviewing their annual performance data.

"Show me," I said.

She pulled up the ratings.
Diana: 2.8 out of 5.
Below average on "collaboration."
Low marks for "team player."

"What's her actual performance?" I asked.

"Exceeded every target.
Landed our biggest client.
Trained three new hires."

"So why the low scores?"

"Her peer reviews are dragging her down."

I scanned the comments.
"Too direct."
"Challenges ideas too much."
"Not supportive enough."

"Let me talk to Diana," I said.

"I used to give honest feedback," Diana told me.
"Said our pricing model was broken.
Got dinged for 'negativity.'"

"What happened with the pricing?"

"They finally fixed it six months later.
After we lost two major accounts."

"What else?"

"I questioned why we needed
eleven approvals for a simple contract change.
Manager said I wasn't being collaborative."

"Are you still giving feedback?"

"No. I learned my lesson.
Now I smile. Nod. Say everything's great.
My reviews are improving."

"But nothing's actually improving?"

"We're making the same mistakes.
Just with better vibes." She chuckled.

I went back to the boss.

"Your review system doesn't measure performance," I said.
"It measures compliance."

"That's not true."

"When was the last time someone
got promoted for challenging bad ideas?"

Silence.

"When did someone get rewarded for preventing a mistake?"

More silence.

"You've trained your best people to stay quiet.
And your mediocre people to stay nice."

A few months later, they redesigned the system.

Added a category: "Constructive Challenge."
Points for identifying problems early.
Rewards for preventing costly mistakes.

Diana got promoted.

"What changed?" I asked the boss.

"We stopped confusing agreement with alignment.
Stopped mistaking silence for harmony."

"And?"

"Turns out our 'difficult' people
were our most valuable.
They actually cared enough to speak up."

Here's the truth about performance reviews:

Most companies don't reward performance.
They reward performance theater.

The person who says the meeting was great
beats the person who says it wasted an hour.

The person who agrees with bad ideas
beats the person who prevents disasters.

You think you're measuring contribution.
You're measuring conformity.

And your best people?
They've already figured out the game.

They're just deciding whether to play it
or find somewhere that values truth over comfort.

[Vijay Shekhar Sharma @vijayshekhar]

This is probably the single best context about India in the new world, you will hear from a business point of view.

[Shamitha Raj @shamitharaj]

Couldn't agree more. Have seen it happening multiple times, repeatedly.

[Woke Eminent @WokePandemic]

This is why incompetent people get promoted ?

What do you think..

[Engineer Faisal @PyeparFaisal]

The Indian police came up with this campaign to curb excessive honking in Mumbai 😂

[Mastercard Africa @MastercardSSA]

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[Mastercard Africa @MastercardSSA]

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[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Naval Ravikant on the importance of hiring high-agency people

Naval defines agency as:

“People who just solve problems without even being asked to solve the problem—they identify the problem, they go solve it, they don’t even necessarily have to update you every step of the way, they’re not asking silly questions, and they’re just coming up with solutions.”

He believes this is important because “building a startup is an infinite set of problems that are being thrown at you.” And there comes a day where you can’t even look at every problem your company is facing—let alone solve every one of them.

He cites the Vinod Khosla aphorism:

"The team you build is the company you build, not the plan you make.”

And your ability to solve problems is based entirely on how many problem-solvers you have at your company. As Naval puts it:

“If you have somebody who takes 10% of your time and management to solve problems, you can only have 10 of those people working with you. But if somebody takes 5%, you can have 20 of those people.”

When building Airchat and AngelList, he thought of each team as a Navy Seal team:

“Everyone is just really good at what they do. They know their job. They do it. They don’t complain. They’re not egotistical about it. And if they have to constantly be corrected, led around by the nose, you have to clean up after them, or you question their judgement, it’s not going to work out.”

Video source: @AngelList (2023)

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Tom was the first to lose his career to Al

[Shamitha Raj @shamitharaj]

#truestory

[Work Chronicles @_workchronicles]

No promotion for you

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Wild times in the 90s when you’d leave the house for 8-10 hours and be completely unreachable (and have a few quarters to make any emergency calls).

[Shamitha Raj @shamitharaj]

@deepansh01 Thanks friend 😁 and back at you!

[Shamitha Raj @shamitharaj]

Hahahaha.... So true....love this @Straying_mind !!!

[Raghuveer @Straying_mind]

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