Sitting with Kunal Shah at a coffee shop in Delhi. In a world of IIT IIM Founders he stands out as a philosophy graduate from Wilson College in Mumbai. I asked him why he studied philosophy - is it that his marks in Class 12 only gave him admission in that subject or was it out of interest in philosophy. He told me it was neither. His family had gone bankrupt and he had to work as a delivery boy and a data entry operator full time. And philosophy was the only subject where the classes were from 8am to 10am. Salute
Life is very simple.
Go to the gym and get jacked.
Build a business and become rich.
Travel the world and enjoy freedom.
Everything else is simply a distraction.
How to protect yourself against automation:
Become a polymath.
Cultivate knowledge and a skillset across multiple fields.
You become irreplaceable by following your curiosities, curating information, and filtering your learnings through your unique life experiences.
I asked 7 levels of engineers (Entry-Level to Distinguished) to share their most important skill.
New Grad (L3):
➤ Learn from existing patterns to solve common problems.
Mid-Level Engineer (L4):
➤ Efficient log analysis to identify and debug issues.
Senior Engineer (L5):
➤ Align project expectations and ensure projects benefit both the company and your growth.
Staff Engineer (L6):
➤ Level up your team and ensure they internalize feedback to become independent.
Senior Staff Engineer (L7):
➤ Instead of just doing eng work, spend time identifying, executing, and measuring impact.
Principal Engineer (L8):
➤ Effective technical communication to delegate tasks effectively and collaborate with others.
Distinguished Engineer (L9):
➤ Combine strong business acumen with technical expertise to lead large, impactful projects.
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Copywriting is the best money-making skill you can learn.
But you don’t need to buy an expensive course to master it.
Try these 7 free ones:
(The 1st is my favorite)
The most successful people I know go from Idea to action immediately.
They can think of something in the morning and have the foundation built by night.
The speed of implementation will empower your progress.
Don’t let thoughts marinate. Cook with them straight away.
Building an audience isn’t enough.
An audience only offers you opportunity.
But to be able to monetize your audience.
You need to learn these skills:
• Sales.
• Funnel building.
• Email marketing.
• Offer creation.
Be a full-stack creator.
Want to escape the MATRIX?
• Start writing online
• Learn high-income skill
• Learn sales and marketing
• Understand human psychology
Stick to it for 1 year.
You'll never have to work a job you hate again.
A lot of very smart people work in strange ways / with a lot of quirks (e.g. contemplating for hours and appearing to do nothing, while then suddenly having 100x output burst).
This usually makes them not a great fit for traditional corporate world, where you often have to fake being busy & work around fixed structures.
The great thing about small teams working in a flexible structure with high autonomy is that you get to witness these quirks manifest into greatness, time and time again.
Many genuinely productive people are misunderstood because their perceived methods many not ‘look’ like hard work from the outside.
Organizations that are able to attract these people at scale & are able to create a culture in which they can flourish, have immense potential for innovation / technological breakthroughs (think OpenAI, SpaceX, ...)
Even if you earn Rs.1 lakh every month, it would take around 15 years for your savings to become a corpus of Rs.1 crore. Despite being mocked at, that's why keep repeating the first crore is most difficult. If you want to get rich, improve your earnings capacity.
If startup founders have $0 for marketing, here’s what they should do:
1. Google “Getkoala com database”
2. Filter companies based on industry and revenue
3. Download up to 10,000 company profiles for free
4. Reach out to C-level executives from those companies and softly pitch their products or services
#buildinpublic
Developers quit their 9 - 5 jobs to pursue self-employment, only to discover that they need to be good at not just code but also in blog, SEO, tweet, newsletters, cold email, marketing etc… & it’s a 24 x 7 Job now & at last, dealing with FOMO of MRR/ARR screenshots on Twitter!
ఒక పురుషుడు ఒక రోజుకి 7 నుంచి 15కోట్ల శుక్రకణాల్ని ఉత్పత్తి చేస్తాడు. ఒక స్త్రీ నెలకి ఒక అండాన్ని ఉత్పత్తి చేస్తుంది. గర్భనిరోధక పద్ధతుల్లో ఖచ్చితత్వం ముఖ్యం, ఏడు కోట్ల యోధుల్ని ఆపేకంటే ఒక్క గుడ్డుని పిల్ల కాకుండా ఆపడం సులువు. ఇది లింగవివక్ష కాదు, పరిశోధనలో వెసులుబాటు అంతే.
Here is a no BS guide to improving your life:-
[1] Work on your skills.
[2] Make more money.
[3] Exercise. And, improve your health
[4] Relax often. Take breaks.
[5] Don't believe in the BS of working 70 hours/week, unless it is on your own venture.
[6] Think critically. And, believe in yourself.
[7] Let people criticise. You don't need to respond to every criticism. Most criticism is useless.
[8] If you die, except for your family, no one will remember you post 48 hours.
[9] So live for yourself and your family.
[10] Create a lot of free time through your investments, ventures, work etc. So that you can live a life.
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Tuesday released its election manifesto for Telangana:
➡️Free Smartphones and Washing Machines for women workers and farmers.
➡️10 lakh jobs for youth in the next 5 years and 55% of these jobs will be provided to women.
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