Vipul Garg

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[Naval @naval]

On Scott Adams.

A man finds, to his astonishment, that he exists. After the elation of childhood wears off, he asks, who am I, why am I here, how does this work? These are hard questions, so after a brief struggle, he selects a readymade answer and goes about the motions of life.

Scott Adams was not such a man. He was a live player, ever curious, intent on figuring out this simulation that he found himself in. From first principles, Scott unraveled, understood, and ultimately controlled his own reality. He hacked himself with affirmations, others with persuasion, the world with simultaneous sips. He explained people as moist robots, two movies happening on one screen, his world as Gods’ debris. He carved a personal mission to “be useful,” and made us all better writers, public speakers, and persuaders. He preached the footwear theory of motivation, the Adams Law of slow-moving disasters, the skill stack, systems over goals, and of course, the Dilbert Principle.

Besides cartooning, philosophizing, and teaching, Scott rose to the occasion and displayed, “the one virtue that cannot be faked” - courage. Scott had the courage to speak honestly as he saw it - about Trump, about his nation, and about his time, even though it cost him friends, audience, money, and his ticket to polite society. Scott had true courage, the kind that makes you unpopular, the kind that is always and everywhere in short supply,

At the end, as any hacker of reality, Scott covered all of his bases - he left as a Buddhist, a Christian, and a player in the Simulation.

Scott, we didn’t get enough time with you, but you were a mentor and a marvel. You were useful and you were courageous. You were incompressible and indivisible. One of a kind, and generous with your drawing, writing, and speaking. Unlike your squealing critics in the chattering class, you will be read generations from now.

On this earth there are many long-lived hells but no lasting heaven. Each heaven must be created and nurtured, ex-nihilo, from mind and from mud. Scott, you created a small heaven for us all, and to a larger heaven you go.

A man finds, to his astonishment, that he no longer exists. He asks why, what it was for, and how will the new reality work? When the rest of us get there, we’ll find Scott, ever useful, ready to explain, having figured it all out.

Notes:
• First line paraphrasing Schopenhauer.
• Courage quote via Taleb.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

This isn’t AI.

Get a cup of coffee, sit down, exhale and read these plaques Trump has added to Presidential portraits in the White House Walk of Fame.

[Lisa @lisavsworld]

I once sent a package to the US but forgot the zipcode. Japan got it to the US... and the US sent it all the way back to Japan despite having all of the other information. The Japanese post office was offended on my behalf that it was returned. It would have been their policy to find the postal code and make sure the package was delivered. It was then I had to introduce them to the blight on the American spirit that affects many people today called, "Any excuse not to do something."

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

I use premium and AI features of Screener. Read every single exchange filing. Go through all annual reports, investor presentations and transcripts of conference calls. Google alerts for every single company I hold or track. So you get all the news about those companies. Using advanced paid version of Grok.

Subscribe to all business newspapers, magazines including The Ken and Morning Context. Right from Moneylife to Moneycontrol Pro to Valueresearch Advisor, subscriber of many paid services.

Regularly read Valuepickr. Read extensively about investing legends, private investors who made it big and so on.

You may think all these as daunting. If you've time, interest and money - you'll really enjoy the process.

Investing cannot be a hobby. It needs serious work. Even then success is not guaranteed. Getting rich is extremely difficult. It is not easy as it is made out to be, by providing examples of some outliers.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

The late Piyush Pandey was a creative genius, of course…

But Piyush stood taller than others because his genius was fuelled by his heart.

At Mahindra, we will never forget him because of this ad he created for us and for getting his sister, Ila, to lend it her voice.

All at virtually no cost.

Because he believed in the cause.

He may be gone, but his heart still speaks through his work.

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

They all had under 24 hours to write and release these days. Ogilvy's own ad is the best, of course. It makes even strangers (to Piyush) feel like they got to know him a little. Piyush may have sold a lot of great products, but the truth was that he himself was a great 'product' that one could write a lot about. And Ogilvy lavishes the writing less on his craft (which was universally known) and more about the man himself (that only people who interacted or worked with him would know).

The ads by Cadbury's and Fevicol are by Ogilvy too, I presume, as the brands' ad agency. The Fevicol ad, in particular, is Lord Ganesha going around Lord Shiva and Lord Parvathi where the Ogilvy ad would be the equivalent of Lord Murugan going around the world.

Amul, of course, has a lot of experience in coming up with ads in under 24 hours on topical events. Crisp and beautifully framed!

#advertising #creativity

[Vipul Garg @vipulgarg9]

"Most complexity is unnecessary, but we manage it instead of removing it because deletion requires courage that addition doesn't."

A gem from Tiny Thoughts by @shaneparrish @farnamstreet blog

https://t.co/XnefCWr0Lj

[Vipul Garg @vipulgarg9]

@sonnovagunner I'm guessing it was the PR team

[Anurag Singh @anuragsingh22_]

A news that made months of hardwork worthwhile 👇🏾

One of our clients, an Indian entity of a global fund, won the best swag award beating their counterparts across 25 locations 🌏

[Vipul Garg @vipulgarg9]

Twitter fam,

A humble, sincere boy who's just graduated from NIT is looking for some work while he waits for a joining date from his campus placement (big 4, analyst).

He is looking for paid gigs/projects/internships.

I can share his CV. Please RT, that'll help. Thanks!

[Vipul Garg @vipulgarg9]

@ravihanda Insightful. Thanks for sharing, sir 👍

[Vipul Garg @vipulgarg9]

@ak_8085 🙌🙌

[Vipul Garg @vipulgarg9]

@SandeepMall What kind of lab are you working on, Sandeep?

[Vishal Khandelwal @safalniveshak]

Mid-life musings and the #happiness curve 😊

[Sandhya Ramesh @sandygrains]

Across India, there’s a new kind of tourism that’s seeing a boom- astrotourism. Amateur astronomers, citizens building telescopes, hobbyists, and private companies are organizing dark sky tourism with nightly sky watching and fun daytime experiences. https://t.co/aycmKXAuV3

[Dipika Menon @menondipika]

Hey folks of #twitter & #twitterindia, need to validate my idea/thesis and pitch deck. Looking for people who can please please please help review and give honest, constructive feedback.
#startup

[David Perell @david_perell]

Seinfeld: "Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with. And that's marriage, kids, work, exercise... not eating the food you want to eat. Find the torture you're comfortable with, and you'll do well."

[Vipul Garg @vipulgarg9]

@ak_8085

[Rahul Mathur @Rahul_J_Mathur]

This poster was pinned by Jony Ive (designer behind iPod & iPhone, iPad). Might be worth putting in your office too?

[George Mack @george__mack]

Steve Jobs' email to himself 13 months before he died

Couldn't sleep after I read it

via @TrungTPhan