1/ How @nateliason used a "Process Mindset" to 10X his productivity and built a business that generates over $100K MRR.

Let's look at the 4 step framework he used to build his personal leverage. ↓ 2/ What is personal leverage?

Leverage is the idea of amplifying your input to produce a large output.

Personal leverage is the idea of extending your ability to do things by recruiting external agents, tools, and technologies.

1/ How Amazon wins bigly through a portfolio of small bets.

(Thread) ↓ 2/ The secret sauce that allows Amazon to stay innovative can be explained by a mental model called Optionality.

Nassim Taleb popularized this term in his book Antifragile where he talks about things that gain from disorder.

1/ @Jamesclear's chat with @polina_marinova was filled with so many good ideas about creativity, building habits, and content creation.

Here are some key ideas which I found valuable.

↓ 2/ On building a 1 million email list and content creation:

• Make sure that your ideas are useful enough for people to trade their valuable time.

• It takes years of skills to learn how to find good and useful ideas and learning how to express them in an interesting way.

1/ @david_perell's YouTube channel is a gold mine of valuable content for creators.

I struck gold when I discovered this Masterclass in Audience Building from @Apompliano himself.

Here are my key takeaways: 👇🏼 If don’t know Pomp already, he is an investor and a crypto educator and evangelist.

He writes a daily newsletter that has over 100K readers from the investing and business community. He also hosts a popular business podcast called the Pomp show.

Key Takeaways from Zero to $50k: How to Grow and Monetize an Email Newsletter.

Tips from @Codie_Sanchez for growing your newsletter during her chat with @nloper on the Side Hustle Show.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/419… How to get started in the newsletter space.

1/ A few months ago, I went down a rabbit hole of resources to learn how to use Twitter. And, I found @David_perell's "How to Crush it on Twitter" course.

I took the course and he didn't disappoint me. Here are my key takeaways from "How to Crush it on Twitter". (A Thread 🧵) 2/ David uses a lot of analogies to explain Twitter: Coffee Shop, School, Conference, Networking place, Newspaper etc.

He views it as an amazing place to get instant feedback on your ideas. He himself used Twitter to validate the idea for his Write of Passage course.

1/ Are you still thinking about whether you need to start a blog?

I put together a list of resources that might give you the final push to go write that first article. (A Thread)🧵 2/ @randallkanna's advice on starting a tech blog.

https://twitter.com/RandallKanna/status/1294770853826027520

"An infinite player does not begin working for the purpose of filling up a period of time with work, but for the purpose
of filling work with time.

Work is not an infinite player's way of passing time, but of engendering possibility." - James P Carse, Finite and Infinite Games. "Work is not a way of arriving at a desired present and securing it against an unpredictable future, but of moving toward a future which itself has a future."

1/ 1500 followers! So grateful for all you wonderful people.

I started posting on Twitter in late June 2020 and never expected I would reach 1000 followers in 3 months.

Here's a thread 🧵 on what I learned during this journey. 2/ The medium is the message.

Twitter incentivizes people that inform, entertain, educate, and inspire others.

Keep adding value through your own tweets and by engaging in other conversations.

1/ A Thread on Anything You Want by @sivers. Things I noted/learned from the book (~40)

One Liner- A book where Derek shares his journey of building a successful company (CD Baby) by breaking the normal conventions of business.
amazon.com/Anything-You-W… 2/ "When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws. This is your utopia."

No one sets the laws for the business that you have created. It's up to you to create a world that you are proud of.

The 10 millennium saga of human architecture in three lines by @benorlin 1. “Outside” is a bad place to live. It can get very cold, there’s nowhere to keep your stuff, and sometimes bears show up. That’s why humans invented “inside.”

20 powerful quotes from Osho about Life.

(A Thread 🧵) 1. Life begins where fear ends.

1/ In 1920, the Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov created a montage with unnarrated images. A corpse in a coffin, an attractive woman, and a bowl of soup.

He then added an image of a man next to each of those pictures. 2/ He showed these images to an audience and asked them to describe what they saw. When shown with the soup, they said that the actor's face looked hungry. When the corpse was shown, the actor's face turned sad.

What the Buddha meant when he said, "Desire is Suffering"

(Thread 🧵) Just as we need to create order outside, we have a deep desire for inner order and harmony.

Everything in the universe tends to chaos, including our minds.

However, we are seeking order and serenity.

https://twitter.com/Deepuasok/status/1288220525395836937?s=20

Drawing is a way of seeing. It's a tool to pay attention to the things we overlook in daily life. If you want to see nature better, try drawing the scenery on a piece of paper.

It will force you to pay attention to the smallest details. It will "open" your eyes to see the things that you missed in plain sight.

Twitter is a peer-peer university. Great story of peer-peer personal finance advice.

https://twitter.com/khurramnaik/status/1303492805168422912

Imitation is a tool to see through the eyes of the master, follow the trail of his thoughts and mimic the motion of his hands. If you want to become a great writer, copy the style of great writers.

If you want to become a great artist, copy the art of great artists.

If you want to become a great sculptor, copy the work of great sculptors.

A story is the perfect combination of logic, imagery and emotion. A story needs to have some sense of logical and sequential progression.

It's my birthday today. 32 years on planet earth. So I decided to write down a list of 32 lessons from 32 years of life.

(A Thread 🧵) 1. Your childhood doesn't define you. Your childhood was determined by people and circumstances around you. Don't believe that you are the sum total of your childhood. You can rewrite your story any moment you want.

Just sent out this week's Visual Wisdom Newsletter to 245 subscribers.

What's in store for this week (Thread 🧵) 👇🏼

visualwisdom.substack.com/p/visual-wisdo… The closer the goals appear to us, the more energy we are willing to expend. This is called the Goal Gradient Effect.

Billy Mill's 1964 Olympic Gold medal victory is a living example of this effect.

Came up with a framework for breaking down and building up concepts from a single source: AESOP

@fortelabs’s CODE is still great for capturing multiple sources.

I wanted a framework to work through a single source.

A- Analyze

E- Extract

S- Summarize

O- Organize

P- Present Step 1- Analyze the text for the overall landscape of concepts.