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Dickie Bush 🚢
@dickiebush 4 years, 6 months ago 689 views

What is the best book you read in 2021?

Will compile every response and rank them by number of recommendations!

Going out to everyone subscribed to my newsletter:

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Dickie Bush 🚢
@dickiebush

These 7 deep work playlists will help you get more done in an hour than most people get done in a month —

(For Spotify, YouTube, AND Apple Music):

These playlists have helped me write every morning for 700 days in a row.

And they cover 7 different genres (so there's something for everyone):

• LoFi
• Piano
• Upbeat focus
• Melodic house
• Ambient space
• Static brown noise
• Movie soundtracks

Let's dive in:

Like the relaxing beats of a coffee shop?

LoFi is your best bet.

Apple Music: https://t.co/yOTrYwyhR0

Spotify: https://t.co/BdnAOCvD7J

YouTube:

Enjoy a peaceful piano for reading and writing?

These are my go-to.

Apple Music: https://t.co/3i1r7fWEMD

Spotify: https://t.co/3i1r7fWEMD

YouTube:

Like the ambient vibe that feels like you're floating through space?

I got you.

Apple Music: https://t.co/MnZILlhyLM

Spotify: https://t.co/UhsJ5lyYIv

YouTube:

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Dickie Bush 📊
@dickiebush

Building an audience, simplified.

• Share a ton of ideas.
• Find the ones that resonate.
• Find a way to repeat those in 100 different ways.

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Dickie Bush 🚢
@dickiebush

Community-driven businesses are the future.

This was one of many takeaways from yesterday's Builders Build with @gregisenberg.

Here are 7 can't-miss lessons on audiences, communities, courses, and the future of business:

People confuse audiences with communities.

An audience is simply a group of people who:

• Follow you
• Listen to you

Building an audience is much easier than building a *community*with that audience.

And to do that, you can use the community test 👇🏼

There are five elements of every strong community:

• Togetherness
• Rituals
• Identity
• Belonging
• Engagement

When building a community, think TRIBE.

And to start, focus on creating rituals and fostering engagement.

There are two types of community products:

• Community-focused products
• Community-enhanced products

Community-focused products are when the product *itself* is the community.

If the community disappears, the product disappears.

This is how most people think of community.

But community-enhanced products are the real gamechanger.

This is when purchasing a product automatically gives you a sense of identity and belonging.

The most successful products will be community-enhanced.

Community-focused: @Clubhouse

Community-enhanced: @lululemon

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Dickie Bush 🚢
@dickiebush

To master the creative process, give yourself permission to create junk.

This is one of the many things I learned diving into everything @jamesclear has published on creativity and building a writing habit.

Here's a thread of his best articles, tweets, and podcast appearances:

1/ Reasons @JamesClear writes

• Write for yourself
• Write to learn more
• Write to build a business
• Write to clarify your thoughts

But most importantly, writing is leadership at scale.

And it will carry your ideas further than

2/ Five steps to mastering the creative process

1) Give yourself permission to create junk
2) Create on a schedule
3) Finishing something
4) Stop judging your own work
5) Hold yourself accountable

I can't overstate the value of this resource 👇🏼

3/ How to overcome others (and yourself) judging your writing

• The first obstacle: overcoming your own judgment
• But once you start publishing, you will meet external judgment.

His advice comes from Mario Andretti:

Focus on the road, not the

4/ Three tips for getting started as a writer:

1) Publish on a schedule
2) Share your writing publicly
3) Write about what fascinates

3 tips for getting started as a writer

1. Publish on a schedule. Consistency develops ability.

2. Share your writing publicly. Writing is a magnet. It attracts like-minded people.

3. Write about what fascinates you. You don't need to be an expert. Curiosity leads to expertise.
— James Clear (@JamesClear) March 20, 2019

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Dickie Bush 🚢
@dickiebush

How to write a good tweet:

• Start with a subject line
• Then, it's all about cadence
• Provide concise value in bullet-points
• And be mindful of aesthetics to keep it easy to read

Then, finish with a punchy sentence or call to action.

Now go write some tweets.

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7 Books that Changed My Life:

- Winning
- Atomic Habits
- The Behavior Gap
- The Millionaire Mind
- How to Become a Rainmaker
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

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Hasan Toor ✪
@hasantoxr

Harvard University is offering free online courses.

No application or fee required.

Here are 10 FREE courses you don't want to miss:

1. Introduction to Computer Science

An introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.

Check here 👇

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This course takes you deeply into the design and implementation of web apps with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Django, React, and Bootstrap.

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A gentle introduction to programming that prepares you for subsequent courses in coding.

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4. Introduction to Programming with Python

An introduction to programming using Python, a popular language for general-purpose programming, data science, web programming, and more.

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Aadit Sheth
@aaditsh

If you use it right, your Twitter account is worth more than your degree.

But 98.8% suck at it.

Here are 9 unique ways to turn Twitter into a crazy valuable asset:

Highly Curate Your Following

99% of users follow real-time news on Twitter.

That's okay. But you won't make Twitter an asset then.

To make it an asset, build a high-signal information diet.

You'll see it as a whole new opportunity.

Let me show you...

Use Twitter Lists

I find way too much news, drama and irrelevant ideas on the Twitter timeline.

I use Twitter lists to cut the noise and amplify the signal.

Bonus: Lists aren't affected by the algorithm.

Here's a video to get started on Lists:

Use Advanced Search

Scrape the internet to find what you want:

"(from:aaditsh) min_faves:1000 marketing"

Tweets with "marketing" from @aaditsh with more than 1000 likes.

Another favorite:

"(from:aaditsh) until:2021-09-01 since:2021-05-01"

Between May and September.

Mute Trolls

Trust me. They're not worth your time.

Click on a profile that annoys you.

Click "more" → "mute profile".

You won't "block" them but their content will become hidden on your timeline.

It's so peaceful.

Sahil Bloom
@SahilBloom

I recently found out I'm going to be a father.

Here are the principles I want to teach my child to live by:

Be Interested

Talent is overrated—interest is not.

Interested people are prone to giving their deep attention to something to discover more about it.

They ask questions, listen, & observe. They open up to the world around them.

Being interested is a key to a fulfilling life.

Different is Beautiful

Growing up, I feared being different—I desperately wanted to fit in.

I made bad decisions grounded in insecurity.

I only realized later: being different is your edge—your ultimate competitive advantage.

No one can compete with you, at being you.

Work Hard

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you have to work hard.

Don't believe the hype. Hard work isn't the sexy, flashy Instagram posts saying "rise & grind”—it's the ugly, painful effort in the dark, when no one is watching.

If you want something, go get it.

Show Up in the Darkest Hour

It's easy to be there for people to celebrate their wins.

It takes character to show up for them in their darkest hour.

People never forget who supported them when the chips were down.

Be the friend who is always there—in good times and bad.

It is said that King of Kittur Mallasarja was once moving around in the neighbouring kingdoms to find support to fight Tipu Sultan. It is then, when he came across Chennamma and he immediately got attracted to her sheer confidence and bravery.

Rani Chennamma and King Mallasarja had a son together who died very soon after the death of King Mallasarja in 1816. As the Queen of Kittur, Rani Chennamma immediately adopted Shivalingappa as her son and declared him the heir to the throne of Kittur.

This did not go well with the British East India Company who was enforcing the Doctrine of Lapse those days, according to which the adopted children of the Indian rulers were not allowed to become their heirs and if the native rulers did not have children of their own, their...

Pran Katariya
@KatariyaPran

The Straddle is my favorite trade these days. But more often than not, one needs to adjust to make a good return from it. There are many ways to do this depending on your view, psychology and imagination. Will discuss a few that I use

The Straddle is a delta neutral strategy and it is important to keep deltas in check during the course of the Trade and not let them run away from you. Of course Volatility is the elephant in the room- but not going there as that will require a separate discussion

The first and most common method is to go 'inverted.' That is to say to shift the untested side to generate additional Premium and increase the runway to Breakeven. So if you start with a Straddle at 700 and price goes to 740, you can move the PE up to say 720.

How much should you move the untested side? While again this is a matter of skill, experience and artistry, the rule of thumb is to cut deltas by half. Remember, prices will move and you have to allow sufficient room for them to fluctuate

The second method is to shift the entire Straddle in the direction of the move. So if you have a 700 Straddle and Price goes to 740, you can shift the Straddle to 720. If you time this right, it can generally be done at virtually no cost or minimal cost.

Noah Smith
@Noahpinion

Krugman is, of course, right about this. BUT, note that universities can do a lot to revitalize declining and rural regions.

One thing I've been noticing about responses to today's column is that many people still don't get how strong the forces behind regional divergence are, and how hard to reverse 1/ https://t.co/Ft2aH1NcQt
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 20, 2018

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