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.
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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
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— 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
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This is why I'm not a critic of "cancel culture." It's crucial to impose social costs for the breech of key social norms. The lesson of overreaction is that we need to recalibrate judgment to get it right next time, not that we need a lot more bad judgment in the other direction.
Obviously, people will disagree about which norms are important, about how bad it is to violate them, and thus about how severe the social cost ought to be. That's just pluralism, man, and it's good.
It's important to openly talk through these substantive differences, which is why derailing these conversations with hand-waving moral panic about "cancel culture" is obnoxious and illiberal.
Screaming "cancel culture!" when somebody pays a social costs other people have been fighting hard to get others to see as necessary is often just a way to declare, with no argument, that the sanction in question was not only unnecessary but in breach of a more important norm.
It's impossible to uphold social norms without social sanctions, so obviously anti-cancelers are going to want to impose a social cost on people they see as imposing unjustly steep social costs on others.
Every single critic of "cancel culture" just thinks the wrong people are getting canceled. pic.twitter.com/DDIVccj8zV
— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) February 2, 2021
Obviously, people will disagree about which norms are important, about how bad it is to violate them, and thus about how severe the social cost ought to be. That's just pluralism, man, and it's good.
It's important to openly talk through these substantive differences, which is why derailing these conversations with hand-waving moral panic about "cancel culture" is obnoxious and illiberal.
Screaming "cancel culture!" when somebody pays a social costs other people have been fighting hard to get others to see as necessary is often just a way to declare, with no argument, that the sanction in question was not only unnecessary but in breach of a more important norm.
It's impossible to uphold social norms without social sanctions, so obviously anti-cancelers are going to want to impose a social cost on people they see as imposing unjustly steep social costs on others.
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In the Spring of 2017, after a deep dive into the Fake News phenomena, the security team wanted to publish an update that covered what we had learned. At this point, we didn’t have any advertising content or the big IRA cluster, but we did know about the GRU model.
This report when through dozens of edits as different equities were represented. I did not have any meetings with Sheryl on the paper, but I can’t speak to whether she was in the loop with my higher-ups.
In the end, the difficult question of attribution was settled by us pointing to the DNI report instead of saying Russia or GRU directly. In my pre-briefs with members of Congress, I made it clear that we believed this action was GRU.
The story doesn\u2019t say you were told not to... it says you did so without approval and they tried to obfuscate what you found. Is that true?
— Sarah Frier (@sarahfrier) November 15, 2018
In the spring and summer of 2016, as reported by the Times, activity we traced to GRU was reported to the FBI. This was the standard model of interaction companies used for nation-state attacks against likely US targeted.
In the Spring of 2017, after a deep dive into the Fake News phenomena, the security team wanted to publish an update that covered what we had learned. At this point, we didn’t have any advertising content or the big IRA cluster, but we did know about the GRU model.
This report when through dozens of edits as different equities were represented. I did not have any meetings with Sheryl on the paper, but I can’t speak to whether she was in the loop with my higher-ups.
In the end, the difficult question of attribution was settled by us pointing to the DNI report instead of saying Russia or GRU directly. In my pre-briefs with members of Congress, I made it clear that we believed this action was GRU.
