Just reached halfway through the book Don’t Shut Up, by @prvkhvr and @Muditspeaks.

Here are some of the best tweet-worthy lines.

Use them as a trailer while deciding whether or not to buy the book, and which parts to read first. /1/ On Making friends:

The more common missions you find, the more common enemies you promise to tackle, the more immediate paths you have in common, the deeper friendships you’ll make.

Just turned 23 today, and there was no way I wasn't going to write a thread.

Messy college graduation, messy "situationships", messy podcast, messy career growth and even messier book recommendations, here are 23 lessons I've learned in the last year.

Enjoy... 1) Self-awareness
If you live in a garbage dump for 10 days, you’ll call it a garbage dump.

If you live in it for 10 years, you’ll start calling it ‘Home’.

Just because you're not aware of something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Seek awareness and take responsibility to heal

So when I heard of the 21-day challenge, by @abhinavxarora, I wasn't sure what to expect.

One thing that definitely increase over the span of the challenge was my ability to express the thought behind an advertisement or marketing copy.

Here's a list of all the 21 threads... Day 1: @Razorpay featuring @twitellectual

https://twitter.com/raunak246/status/1527208779200462848

Time for the finale today, Day 21 of @abhinavxarora's 21-day ad challenge.

It's been one hell of a ride. Honestly, I didn't think I would stick with it thill the end, but here we are.

Today we're breaking down @ParleFamily... 1) Cultural context:

While everybody celebrates Republic day, its significance is forgotten by most.

Similarly, while everyone knows that Parle-G has been an age-old brand since the 1930s, its relevance is overlooked by most.

Both needed a walk down memory lane.

Are you willing to lose me to love me?

//A thread on Love and Loss Once you get over the cuteness, cuddliness and chemistry of puppy love, you get the opportunity to understand what real love requires, and that’s the ability to deal with loss.

So, I just turned 22 today, and Oh my God it feels like a lifetime since I entered my 20s.

After one failed startup, one break-up, one new podcast, half a dozen mentors and countless books, here's a thread on 22 things I've learned.

Enjoy: //On Insecurity:

Having insecurities is like taking a dump. No matter how pretty, rich or famous we are, we all experience it, and it's normal. It becomes a problem when you throw it on others.
Be secure enough to know that your insecurities are your problem, not someone else's.

Book for today: The 4-hour workweek

Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Well thankfully, @tferriss has shared all the tools and tactics required.

Each page has words that will both test your assumptions and give you better alternatives on career and work. 1) “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”

Book for the day: Range

You think being a master of one is better?

.@DavidEpstein might disagree with you.
Learn how to dance at the edges of several disciplines, and flirt through your professional life it’s a high-school prom.
Also, it's a recommended book by @prvkhvr. @DavidEpstein @prvkhvr 1) “If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly.”

Takeaways from the podcast with @warikoo and @sid_warrier :

1) In a world of uncertainty, long term plans are not realistic. What matters is, are you self aware enough to understand the reasons for your choices, and honest enough to act on them when you make the decision. 2) Discipline is a transferrable and contagious skill. Your body is the first asset you invest in, and building discipline to take care of your body is uniquely linked to building the discipline of investing

Today's book: Lean startup by @ericries

If you’re sure that you want to build a business, you better learn how to do it the right way.

Eric Ries breaks down the crisp and clear way of lean development, that mitigates the risk of building a great product that NOBODY EVER WANTED 1)“We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.”

Book of the day: The Content Trap by @bharat_n_anand

Dare to challenge all that you know about content and digital ecosystems?
Learn what actually makes the product world go round, as opposed to the superficial stories we hear about disruption. 1) "This simple idea—that the right decision is often closely tied to its context—has profound implications for management."

Book for today: Hooked by @nireyal

What makes some apps so bloody addictive, and others pretty redundant? Ready to get HOOKED to reading? Buy this book and unravel the mysteries of what VCs call “oxygen products”. 1) "Users who continually find value in a product are more likely to tell their friends about it"

Today's book: Zero To One

What happens when business expertise meets a philosopher’s wisdom? You get @peterthiel's best-selling book. Highly recommended for anyone looking to disrupt an industry in the 21st Century. 1) "Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius."

Takeaways from the session on #HumanBeyondResources with @kunalb11 and @YourStoryCo:

1) User empathy is tough to learn, and it makes sense to invest in talent who have chosen a path that requires them to understand what gets applause, like part-time creators, artists, etc. 2) Don't use people to solve your problems. Instead, solve problems for your people and they'll solve the organization's problems. Your team is the ultimate long term elixir for your business. Take care of them, and they'll take of your company.

Today's book snippets:
How to win at the sport of business

Business Maverick @mcuban decided to pour his business acumen for all of you guys. Don’t let the length fool you. It’s enough to make you win any market. 1) "In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once"

Today's book: Hard thing about hard things.

@bhorowitz doesn’t pull any punches. This is book will teach you what MBA schools simply can’t. #LearnwhatittakestobeaCEO 1) "Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything."

Takeaways from the podcast with @shl with @BeerBicepsGuy on #TheRanveerShow podcast:

1) Tech entrepreneurs are first and foremost builders, and what's interesting about software is that you don't need a degree to validate your ability. Use code to solve problems. 2) Money is a validation of value. If people pay for your product, it's definitely valuable. People will part with their money only if you are adding substantial value in some way or the other.

Top takeaways from the Introduction to Psychology course from Yale courses on YouTube:

Studying psychology is particularly complicated since it requires you to define the level at which you're trying to analyse the behaviour. Hence, it's broadly classified into 5 domains: 1) Neuroscience: Brain and body dynamics

2) Developmental Psychology: Growth stages

3) Cognitive psychology: Thought, attention and the whole shebang

4) Social Psychology: "The Self" and the external world

5) Clinical Psychology: Diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses.

Top aphorisms from Bed of Procrustes, by @nntaleb
(Part 2/2):

13) The fool generalizes the particular, the nerd particularizes the general, some do both, and the wise do neither. 14) Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.

Just completed reading Bed of Procrustes, by @nntaleb.
Here are my most thought-provoking aphorisms from the entire collection:
(Part 1/2)

1) The test of originality of an idea is not the absence of one single predecessor, but the presence of multiple but incompatible ones. 2) Your brain is the most intelligent when you don't instruct it what to do -something people who take showers discover on occasion.

Takeaways from Trifecta of Reality with @sid_warrier, @VarunMayya and @prvkhvr:

1) Content without context "feels" good but has no real benefit to neither the creator nor the consumer. This is where features like reels lobotomise educational/intellectual creators. 2) Platforms can loosely be split into content-focused, like Youtube, where the dopamine comes from the content, or the scroll-focussed, like Instagram, where dopamine comes from swiping through the feed of content variety.