I made almost all of the mistakes I've mentioned further in the thread
A guide for ambitious teenagers who want to grow
This thread contains guidance related to:
• Twitter Networking
• Avoiding Naive bBlunders
• Growing on Twitter
• And anything I could tell advise you like an elder brother
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I made almost all of the mistakes I've mentioned further in the thread
Be patient when you reach out people (especially the ones with more than 1k followers) on Twitter
You may not get reply for couple of days. This happens cuz the person has many DMs pending and is left with no bandwidth to reply
So don't be like "???" or "will you reply???"
Be more generous in the approach. Follow up more politely with sentences like "looking forward to your reply"
Whenever you send a Cold DM, keep the message short and precise.
@palakzat and @SumneshSalodkar guided me in the right direction with this
Do not add anything irrelevant in the message, especially while asking for help. Ask yourself whether the sentence serves any purpose in the communication or not
Also, while cold DMing important or busy people, do not start with "Hey" or something like that
Instead, introduce yourself in 1-2 lines and in the next 2-3, explain the reason/favour/purpose of your message
Avoid reaching out to important/busy (I don't have a better word for them) people without a solid purpose. Don't just randomly text them
Again, this comes from @palakzat
If you want to grow on Twitter as someone who's interested in startups, tech or anything related to productivity and ambitions, strictly avoid shitposting.
You can build an audience only when keep giving out value, consistently
Thanks for the lesson @join2manish sir
Avoid DMing anyone on WhatsApp until and unless you've joined their WhatsApp newsletter
https://t.co/EoYEWJp3cY
For young tweeps
— Atharva Kharbade (@athrvakhrbde) October 26, 2020
I've been doing cold outreach since long, & after I dropped out, getting guidance became my priority
So one time, as usual, I made a list of YC startups from LinkedIn. And I got the WhatsApp no. of the co-founder which my friend found on her LinkedIn
1/4 https://t.co/50zPps6ffg
Audience >>> Followers
Don't run after followers, they're just vanity metrics. Build an audience, it'll surely pay off
Learned this from @ankitkr0 and @nipunnyy
Never ask others anything that you can easily find on Google. May it be during a conversation, or if you don't understand a term in tweet. Don't just comment right away, "What's X?"
Make this a habit, always Google what you don't understand, right away
Do your homework
Before you hop on a call with someone who's important for you, do a solid research about him/her first
I learned this from @nikhiljoisr
Always have a profile picture of yours. Means, your face should be in the DP
Learned this from @shlokafc
Have a neat and precise bio. Don't add anything that doesn't depict what you do or what you tweet about
Advise from @nipunnyy
Never message busy/important people asking "What are your thoughts on..."
As mentioned previously, message only with a purpose
Learned this from @warikoo
I personally never ever sent my thread to anyone and asked them to retweet it. Not a single time.
So I'd reccomend you to not do this either.
The logic behind this is, your content must me so damn good and value packed, that people can't resist resharing it
Avoid scammy self help gurus and courses.
The world is big enough to not follow these things and still have pinnacle quality content and people for you to follow
Prioritize health (physical and mental)
Compromising health for short term sprints will do nothing but harm in long term
Life is long enough to not hurry at the cost of your health
Don't fall prey to things on Twitter. For example, you don't need a fancy "productivity setup" to pull of great things.
I used this dumper laptop for years. I did EDM production, graphic design, 3D design, etc. on it. Only when I started earning, I upgraded
Don't spend your parent's money for buying expensive things that have cheaper alternatives.
Like, don't buy a ₹7k keyboard with your parent's money. Rather save that money, invest it somewhere.
Maximize on free resources. If something like @nntaleb's ebook is for free, doesn't mean that it doesn't provide value.
There are plenty of free resources for almost everything. Take advantage of that
I've intentionally added many terms in the thread that most of the teenagers won't understand.
If you didn't Google them right away, this is the signal to begin with it asap or else I'll be nonplussed to see you not apply the advice
I have a detailed article coming with @internclick, on internships. So stay tuned for that. It covers everything you need to know related to internships
And a thread on how to write threads is coming soon too.
More from Atharva Kharbade
It's been 2.5 years now since I'm on antidepressants and many people closely related to me still believe that depression is something that's "just in the head"
Our society needs to seriously rethink of mental health. Our society needs to be educated
3 years ago, during my JEE prep, when I went into clinical depression, no one could diagnose me of it. I had every symptom of it.
I literally got no help. This is not about me, I'm telling this from a general 3rd person view.
Any help that I got was wearing a ring made of horseshoe of a black horse of a specific breed. All the blame was slapped on 'Shani'
I was being taken to orphanages and slum areas so that I could see that my ailments are nothing in front of theirs.
Loads of toxic positivity
I lived in a PG hostel. I used to go to institute. Used to meet numerous people everyday. But not a single person could diagnose me of any medical condition. Not their fault, even I didn't what I'd been going through
Our society needs to seriously rethink of mental health. Our society needs to be educated
3 years ago, during my JEE prep, when I went into clinical depression, no one could diagnose me of it. I had every symptom of it.
I literally got no help. This is not about me, I'm telling this from a general 3rd person view.
Any help that I got was wearing a ring made of horseshoe of a black horse of a specific breed. All the blame was slapped on 'Shani'
I was being taken to orphanages and slum areas so that I could see that my ailments are nothing in front of theirs.
Loads of toxic positivity
Yes, \U0001d5fd\U0001d5fc\U0001d600\U0001d5f6\U0001d601\U0001d5f6\U0001d603\U0001d5f6\U0001d601\U0001d606 can be \U0001d601\U0001d5fc\U0001d605\U0001d5f6\U0001d5f0
— Atharva Kharbade (@athrvakhrbde) September 25, 2020
Before you let your ignorance kick in and make you laugh out loud, try seeing life with a new perspective
No BS
A thread...
Read this if you use sentences like "Good vibes only" or "Just be positive and stay happy"
I lived in a PG hostel. I used to go to institute. Used to meet numerous people everyday. But not a single person could diagnose me of any medical condition. Not their fault, even I didn't what I'd been going through
This is the story of a guy named Alex, who made $1 million in just 5 months by selling pixels of his website's homepage, when he was broke
16 years later, now he's the CEO of a company worth more than $2 billion
Thread ↓
1/
Year 2005
Alex has no money in his bank account, and just after 1 month his classes at a three-year university are gonna begin.
Being really determined to avoid student debt, he pulls an all nighter to brainstorm on a question, "How can I become a millionaire"
2/
Twenty minutes later, he had his answer: Sell one million pixels of advertising space on a website for $1 each.
"I thought, 'This is one of those crazy, quirky ideas, but it just might work.I've got nothing to lose.' " says Alex.
3/
Tew already had some experience with website design, so with a paltry $100, he quickly bought a domain name and some basic web hosting services and had his website, https://t.co/APDYhSjFTQ, up and running in two days.
4/
The concept was simple: Businesses could buy 10x10 or larger blocks of advertising space for a $1 per pixel and place their logos and links on his site.
16 years later, now he's the CEO of a company worth more than $2 billion
Thread ↓
1/
Year 2005
Alex has no money in his bank account, and just after 1 month his classes at a three-year university are gonna begin.
Being really determined to avoid student debt, he pulls an all nighter to brainstorm on a question, "How can I become a millionaire"
2/
Twenty minutes later, he had his answer: Sell one million pixels of advertising space on a website for $1 each.
"I thought, 'This is one of those crazy, quirky ideas, but it just might work.I've got nothing to lose.' " says Alex.
3/
Tew already had some experience with website design, so with a paltry $100, he quickly bought a domain name and some basic web hosting services and had his website, https://t.co/APDYhSjFTQ, up and running in two days.
4/
The concept was simple: Businesses could buy 10x10 or larger blocks of advertising space for a $1 per pixel and place their logos and links on his site.
More from Twitter
📱 Over the past 2-3 years, I screenshotted a ton of random tweets about social/product that made me think
Here they are, in chronological order, w highlights from @nikitabier, @BrianNorgard, @rsg, @Mazzeo, @prestonattebery, + many more
(sry for weird twtr cropping + threading)
h/t @Mazzeo
h/t @Mazzeo
h/t @Mazzeo
h/t @Mazzeo
Here they are, in chronological order, w highlights from @nikitabier, @BrianNorgard, @rsg, @Mazzeo, @prestonattebery, + many more
(sry for weird twtr cropping + threading)
literally have a folder of dozens of my fav screenshotted tweets on consumer social product stuff...and @nikitabier is well represented
— Adam O'Kane \U0001f4ad (@adamokane) February 13, 2021
h/t @Mazzeo
h/t @Mazzeo
h/t @Mazzeo
h/t @Mazzeo
So regarding to my "bombshell"...it's perhaps a bit less dramatic than many presumed, yet it still troubles me a lot, to the point that I wondered whether I should stop posting on certain things
You see, I realized in the last few months that, by translating information and news related to one of the fastest growing spaceflight powers of the world...I inadvertently became a spreader of PRC propaganda.
And with me exactly 180 degrees away from them, I feel scared.
It actually started a few years ago - it's not hard to meet Chinese Twitter users interested in spaceflight, either those living overseas or find a way to climb over the wall. Not surprisingly, many of these S/F enthusiasts are interested in their own military too.
This steadily grew with my followers' count until the flagship Chinese spaceflight missions of 2020 (Chang'e 5 especially but also many others) brought in dozens of them liking/re-tweeting my info tweets sometimes, and similar no. of such followers every month.
I do casually check these new followers/users sometimes. To my horror, far too many of them routinely insults, attacks, mocks others who they see as "anti-China" or spread potential mis-information, even blatant attacks, that started off w/ their state media/spokesperson.
I'm going to make a bomb shell statement here around the turn of the year, something so risky that I face prospects of the Twitter account being attacked or even banned.
— Cosmic Penguin (@Cosmic_Penguin) December 31, 2020
It's about my very uneasy Twitter experience over the past 2-6 months, the worst I could ever remember.
You see, I realized in the last few months that, by translating information and news related to one of the fastest growing spaceflight powers of the world...I inadvertently became a spreader of PRC propaganda.
And with me exactly 180 degrees away from them, I feel scared.
It actually started a few years ago - it's not hard to meet Chinese Twitter users interested in spaceflight, either those living overseas or find a way to climb over the wall. Not surprisingly, many of these S/F enthusiasts are interested in their own military too.
This steadily grew with my followers' count until the flagship Chinese spaceflight missions of 2020 (Chang'e 5 especially but also many others) brought in dozens of them liking/re-tweeting my info tweets sometimes, and similar no. of such followers every month.
I do casually check these new followers/users sometimes. To my horror, far too many of them routinely insults, attacks, mocks others who they see as "anti-China" or spread potential mis-information, even blatant attacks, that started off w/ their state media/spokesperson.
Here are some of the best threads I've ever read on Twitter,
All related to
- Startups
- Entrepreneurship
- Indiehacker
- Wealth
- Health
- Life nd philosophy
I'll keep updating them regularly
Read below 👇
1. Getting reach without being luck, best tweet ever by
2. On meditation by
3. On college and eduction by
4. "Deep Year" concept by
All related to
- Startups
- Entrepreneurship
- Indiehacker
- Wealth
- Health
- Life nd philosophy
I'll keep updating them regularly
Read below 👇
1. Getting reach without being luck, best tweet ever by
How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):
— Naval (@naval) May 31, 2018
2. On meditation by
Meditation - The Art of Doing Nothing:
— Naval (@naval) May 16, 2020
3. On college and eduction by
I\u2019ve gotten a lot of bad advice in my career and I see even more of it here on Twitter.
— Nick Huber (@sweatystartup) January 3, 2021
Time for a stiff drink and some truth you probably dont want to hear.
\U0001f447\U0001f447
4. "Deep Year" concept by
Obsessed with this idea:
— Jordan O'Connor (@jdnoc) July 28, 2020
Pick a niche I'm interested in.
Write/study daily about the topic.
Write 100 articles in a year.
Get SEO traffic.
Build email list.
Ask them what they want and build it.
Sell products (physical or digital).
Start fresh with a new niche next year.
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2. The heritability of IQ *increases* from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the effect of the shared environment largely fades away. In other words, when it comes to IQ, nature becomes more important as we get older, nurture less. https://t.co/UqtS1lpw3n
3. IQ scores have been increasing for the last century or so, a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. https://t.co/sCZvCst3hw (N ≈ 4 million)
(Note that the Flynn effect shows that IQ isn't 100% genetic; it doesn't show that it's 100% environmental.)
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For example, though far from perfect, IQ is the single-best predictor of job performance we have – much better than Emotional Intelligence, the Big Five, Grit, etc. https://t.co/rKUgKDAAVx https://t.co/DWbVI8QSU3
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1. IQ is one of the most heritable psychological traits – that is, individual differences in IQ are strongly associated with individual differences in genes (at least in fairly typical modern environments). https://t.co/3XxzW9bxLE
2. The heritability of IQ *increases* from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the effect of the shared environment largely fades away. In other words, when it comes to IQ, nature becomes more important as we get older, nurture less. https://t.co/UqtS1lpw3n
3. IQ scores have been increasing for the last century or so, a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. https://t.co/sCZvCst3hw (N ≈ 4 million)
(Note that the Flynn effect shows that IQ isn't 100% genetic; it doesn't show that it's 100% environmental.)
4. IQ predicts many important real world outcomes.
For example, though far from perfect, IQ is the single-best predictor of job performance we have – much better than Emotional Intelligence, the Big Five, Grit, etc. https://t.co/rKUgKDAAVx https://t.co/DWbVI8QSU3
5. Higher IQ is associated with a lower risk of death from most causes, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, most forms of cancer, homicide, suicide, and accident. https://t.co/PJjGNyeQRA (N = 728,160)
