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Jan 25 • 111 tweets • 23 min read
Twitter is free university.

But even 100k-impression tweets aren't seen by 99.95% in a day

Imagine what's shared & missed in a YEAR

Here are 100 of the most useful & educational resources shared on Twitter in the past 365 days:
I curated & organized these resources into sections:

1️⃣ Content & Recommendations
2️⃣ Writing & Creativity
3️⃣ Business & Entrepreneurship
4️⃣ Web3, Crypto & NFTs
5️⃣ Money, Tax & Investing
6️⃣ Life & Wisdom
7️⃣ Practical & Misc.

Let's get to it!
SECTION 1️⃣: CONTENT & RECOMMENDATIONS
YouTube video recommendations:
YouTube video recommendations:
10/10 book recommendations:
Short book recommendations:
Heart-breaking books:
Books on writing:
1,000 free books:
Podcast episode recommendations:
10/10 movie recommendations:
Video game recommendations:
SECTION 2️⃣: WRITING & CREATIVITY
How writing works:
How creativity works:
School and creativity:
Following your bliss:
What it looks like when you what you make:
Persuasion:
Storytelling:
Principles of effective storytelling:
Rules for storytelling:
Resources to learn the art and science of storytelling:
Hollywood's writing framework:
Daily writing routine:
Advice for writers:
Laws of online writing:
Framework for newsletter design:
SECTION 3️⃣: BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Methodically Building Leverage:
Career advice:
Practical career lessons:
Founder cheat sheet:
Raising venture capital:
Entrepreneurial resources:
Startup tools:
Amazon shareholder letters:
Contrarian observations about humans:
Masterclass in copywriting:
Ogilvy's copywriting process:
Marketing mental models:
Marketing tools:
Marketing savvy:
Psychological concepts for marketers:
Examples and tips to master business writing:
How to join the creator economy:
Sales and marketing hacks:
Content promotion:
Consumer business metrics:
Blueprint to increase landing page conversation rate:
Cross-industry innovations:
Design resources for startups:
SECTION 4️⃣: WEB3, CRYPTO & NFTs
Web3 reading list:
Web3 reading and resources:
Web3 gaming:
Crypto-related book recommendations:
Understanding Bitcoin:
Where to invest $10M in Web3, NFTs, or cryptocurrency:
Principles of Web3:
Metaverse theory:
NFT glossary:
NFT growth:
NFT creation:
Ethereum 101:
Vitalik talks with people he follows:
SECTION 5️⃣: MONEY, TAX & INVESTING
Lies about money:
Your Lifetime Effective Tax Rate:
Tax strategies:
SECTION 6️⃣: LIFE & WISDOM
How to get lucky (without being rich):
21 questions to reflect on:
The most powerful ideas in life:
Learning and changing your mind:
Life-changing tweets:
Advice for everyone:
Questions to ask yourself when your confidence is low:
Time in perspective:
Useful Razors and Rules:
Wise threads:
Things you probably don't need in your life:
Using time wisely:
How not to worry about obstacles:
Three dimensions of the good life:
SECTION 7️⃣: PRACTICAL & MISC.
Educational people on Twitter:
Chrome extensions:
Viral tweet takeaways:
Chrome hotkeys:
How to use Twitter:
Gmail hacks:
Web developer websites:
What your Mac can do:
Doubling your Gmail productivity:
Free beautiful fonts:
Leveraging Reddit:
Using Twitter DMs:
Modeling our current world:
Twitter tips:
Thumbnail art optimization:
Beautiful resume:
Resources for young kids to learn programming and engineering:
Outlier accomplishments in U.S. sports history:
On that note, Simone Biles in extreme slow motion
The ultimate test of your knowledge:
Create yourself, continuously:
Finally, the meaning of life:
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Jan 27
In 2017, ARK Invest began publishing a Big Ideas report to enlighten investors on the impact of breakthrough technologies.

Yesterday ARK released Big Ideas 2022, highlighting ARK's most provocative research conclusions for the coming year.

Here’s a distillation of what it says:
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The ultimate career hack:

Writing well without getting stuck

Here's a theory of creativity that will instantly make you a better writer:
When people say, “writing is thinking,” 99% don’t mean it literally.

They mean it figuratively: writing *clarifies* thinking by helping put ideas in order.

But they were right the first time: writing doesn’t clarify thinking; writing IS thinking.
Writing and conscious thinking are one and the same thing.

When you write, you’re not “putting your thoughts in writing” or “conveying your ideas.”

Your thoughts are the writing itself.
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Jan 19
If you do these 3 things daily:

1. Read about ideas you love
2. Take notes from your reading in your own words
3. Create pointers from your notes to your reading

You can't help but write. Eventually, your notes will relate to themes – and writing will take care of itself.
When you read actively every day and put ideas into your own words, you’ll never be at a loss for ideas.
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Then they systematically harvest the best thoughts they find in those sources.

Their goal is to take mental ownership of everything they read.
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Jan 18
In an age of leverage, B gets paid 10,000x more than A
The classic formulation:

“Being at the extreme in your art is very important in the age of leverage.” -@naval

My interpretation is there's confusion these days.

People conflate being at the extreme with being on the frontier.

Naval never does that. Here's how we puts it.
Being marginally better means getting outsized rewards (by orders of magnitude).

That means combining your skills and pushing as far to the extreme as possible.

That also implies loving what you do so much you can persevere.
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Jan 17
NEW THREAD SERIES

"The Rules They Live By"

1️⃣ READ the philosophy of a thoughtful person in 2 min

2️⃣ LEARN a contrarian belief

3️⃣ TAKE a simple idea seriously

Thoughtful Person #1: @jackbutcher 👇
One person's take (mine) on the distilled philosophy of Jack Butcher, in two min:
Memes exert force in the world and drive human progress.

But many people *still* underestimate their power and significance.
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Jan 15
I’m thinking about writing a thread on the personal philosophies of thoughtful people.

I’d state a simple idea each person takes seriously. A belief important to them but underappreciated by others.

I’d also invite them to comment. Would anyone be interested in this?
I'd love to jump-start something like this, and it would be even better if people shared their philosophies themselves.

70 years ago, Edward R. Murrow invited people to share their beliefs in three minutes or less.

The invitation became the radio series, “This I Believe.”
The program stressed “individual belief over dogma" and it became a cultural phenomenon.

People shared their beliefs simply and sincerely, which stimulated more people to do so, and so on.
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