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How to accelerate your career, save 60 hrs/week, and lead better.

🧵 My 10 favorite tweets of the week (that you may have missed):

 How to save 60 hrs/week of work (by @theryanking):
https://t.co/VWr5PJxSZk
Why kids should play more video games (by @anafabrega11):
https://t.co/TSO3Ubm0dn
A 4-step writing process (by @JustinSaaS):
https://t.co/C2WboVGMpd
26 incredible internet finds (by @stephsmithio)
https://t.co/BZqPW71UWF
A 4-step process for cold emails (by @extrafrankie):
https://t.co/spvn2owfgX
Fifteen conventions to break (by @SahilBloom):
https://t.co/C40RngtIgG
How to accelerate your career (by @heykahn)
https://t.co/otKa6suDdf
30 questions to ask when hiring (by @lukesophinos):
https://t.co/z7Z5fGvrU1
How to be a better leader (by @dklineii):
https://t.co/rfIYGmYUeT
10 things to tell your children today (by @wdmorrisjr):
https://t.co/KsdiHwp5bg
Hope you discovered something new (because that's the point!)

If you did, share it with a friend.

Hop back up to retweet the first tweet: https://t.co/OkzVvbEoG2
By the way, follow me @aaditsh for more of my writing.

You can find past threads here: https://t.co/sir8bWNDrs

More from Aadit Sheth

Aadit Sheth
Aadit Sheth
@aaditsh
Most people suck at being interesting via DMs.

The thing is - it takes a lot of time and effort to do it right.

Here are 9 frameworks to stand out from the crowd:

Pre-game:

Start on the timeline:

1. Turn on notifications for your favorite tweeters.

2. Reply with something insightful in under 10 minutes.

You will enter their radar.

Then, follow up on a specific tweet or idea via DM.


Don't make "connections", make friends:

Remember: Twitter is different.

You don't have an audience-consumer relationship like LinkedIn or TikTok.

On Twitter, it's a friend-friend relationship.

Write a catchy first line:

By the design of Twitter DMs, you don't have much real estate.

In "message requests", you only see the name of the person + the first few words.

Crazy part: I get 30 of these DMs per day.

Make sure the first line is eye-catching.

Crucial.

Be specific as f*ck:

General compliments and feedback are useless.

To stand out, ask this question to yourself:

What do you *actually* like about them or their work?

High specificity means you're genuine.

Being genuine will get you more friends.
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Aadit Sheth
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.
LEARNING
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Aadit Sheth
Aadit Sheth
@aaditsh
Elon Musk is a big believer in First Principles Thinking.

Not just Musk — Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and Feynman too.

Here's what it is, how to use it, and become better at it:

What it is:

Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on First Principles Thinking:

It means "boiling things down to the most fundamental truths and then reasoning up from there."

A first principle is a basic truth that cannot be broken down any further.

God — this reminds me of high school chemistry when we first learnt about Atoms.

But that's what they're like! The basic foundations.

Here are 2 techniques to use First Principles Thinking:

1. The Five Whys

This is simple. Keep asking why.

Already asked why? Ask again.

Continuously ask why things are the way they are.

It'll help you discover the root causes of problems (hence helping you solve them).

You know what — Children are great at this...

Children question everything.

They keep asking why (almost to the point that it gets annoying).

Their curiosity enables them to think from first principles.

As we get older, we lose this child-like curiosity to keep asking why.
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Aadit S \u2604
Aadit S ☄
@aadtshth
Today, I turn 19 years old.

My best quality?

→ I learn the best from the best.

🧵 These 19 people have taught me 19 different things.

Time for a thread👇👇👇


Quick note:

I realize that all the superstars mentioned in this thread are not one-dimensional. No one is.

This is a compilation of how I am implementing these qualities and insights from their lives, to my life.

And I hope I help you do so too!

1/ Be courageous like @brandonthezhang

Brandon himself is quite young but he never let age keep him back.

One opportunity, to the next → Starting with @visualizevalue to building his personal brand and launching his podcast 🚀

Age is indeed just a number for him.

2/ Be generous like @jamierusso

Jamie is definitely one of the kindest souls I have encountered on Twitter.

He is a prime example of how being nice and always willing to help out (regardless of size of account), helps in the long run.

Congratulations on your book 💙

3/ Steal like @AlexLlullTW

Twitter is a game.

And I haven't seen anyone talk about it more openly than Alex.

Tips, tricks, and also the formats — he shares it all. I love it when he's open about "stealing" formats from other people. That's how everyone in the community grows.
LIFE
Aadit Sheth
Aadit Sheth
@aaditsh
Lie: School sets you up for the real world.

If you want to win at life, you need to learn to figure it out.

How to figure anything out:

Accept that you don't know it all:

First, normalize not knowing everything. It's okay.

The ones that know a lot continue to ask questions.

Speak less. Ask more.

Curiosity wins:

Be ready to be a student again. Know that it never stops — lifelong learning.

The universe appreciates genuine curiosity.

Friends, the internet & communities will give you what you want if show genuine interest.

Be positive-sum — want others to win:

The more you give, the more you get.

If people around you are winning, you will win (at some point).

Surround yourself with winners and help them win big.

Use Youtube:

The greatest search engine of all time

You can literally learn anything for free if you:

• Are curious enough
• Show up every day

Here are some of the best places to
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So, about 5 years ago, we got on facebook. Why? Well, facebook has a big audience and they like to consume on facebook. So, we started posting comics there, even though we got paid nothing and facebook made money off the free content.

Why? Because back then, once in a while, you would say "also hey, I sell books" or "hey, I'm going to be signing at this event" and your facebook followers would actually see it.

Effectively, the implicit old arrangement was "facebook lets me reach readers efficiently, and I supply facebook with free content they run ads on."

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Yesterday Kubica was at Orlen's headquarters and met with Polish Prime Minister. #F1
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What Happened To Bhakt Prahlad after Hiranyakashipu Vadh
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Prahlada became the mighty king of the Asuras after Shri Narsimha killed Hiranyakashipu. Prahlada was even more powerful than his father, Hiranyakashipu ever was. He enjoyed the love and respect of his subjects.


By virtue of his good behaviour, Prahlada conquered the three worlds easily and Indra ran away from the Heavens. Indra then deceived Prahlada into giving him the power of his behaviour and Prahlada lost control of the three worlds.


Asuras grew angry at the Devas for taking advantage of their King's virtuous behaviour and invaded the heavens. The Devas, afraid of the Asuras, enlisted the help of human Kings such as Yayati, Raji and Kakutstha and defeated them.

Prahlada attacked the gods and defeated Indra in battle, forcing the King of the Gods to run for his life. Indra sought help of Lord Vishnu. Infused with his power, Indra defeated Prahlada. The latter understood that Vishnu was helping Indra in battle and he withdrew his forces.


Prahlada first gave his kingdom to Andhaka, but the latter was defeated by Shiva. So Prahlada gave it to his son Virochana and undertook a Tirtha Yatra.
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Tweeting Historians
Tweeting Historians
@Tweetistorian
@ChenHuailun here. I'm adding a supplementary thread before today's scheduled one to expand on the origins and early history of the Church of the East (aka the Nestorian Church) ~ahc #jingjiao 1/


The Church of the East traces its origins to the christological position of the School of Antioch, which held that the human and divine and human essences (ουσία) of Christ were united in a single prosopon (πρόσωπον). ~ahc #jingjiao 2/


This ran against the position of the School of Alexandria, which held that the two essences of Christ were united in a single hypostasis (ὑπόστασις). In general terms, hypostasis is more inherent than prosopon. ~ahc #jingjiao 3/


One implication of the Antiochene rejection of the hypostatic union is that Mary could not accurately be called the Theotokos, or God-bearer. Instead, she is the Christotokos, the Christ-bearer. ~ahc #jingjiao 4/


These Christological debates were further complicated by Syriac terms such as 'kyana' (ܟܝܢܐ), associated with 'ousia' but later translated to 'hypostasis' by Syrian Orthodox; and 'qnoma ' (ܩܢܘܡܐ), sometimes contentiously translated as 'hypostasis' or 'person.' ~ahc #jingjiao 5/
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