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
Thread Continued
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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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.
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My 10 most popular tweets from 2020
Happy New Year everybody!
[THREAD] ⬇️
1/ Thread on how American Express
2/ Thread on how Coca-Cola makes
3/ Thread explaining popular software
4/ On consistency
Happy New Year everybody!
[THREAD] ⬇️
1/ Thread on how American Express
American Express is not like Visa and Mastercard. \U0001f4b3
— Ryan Reeves (@investing_city) May 15, 2020
The business model is much more like a bank than anything else. \U0001f3e6
Business Breakdown [THREAD] \U0001f447\U0001f3fd pic.twitter.com/PvlUST0rtl
2/ Thread on how Coca-Cola makes
Did you know that Coca-Cola makes the majority of its profit from selling its secret-formula of flavoring?
— Ryan Reeves (@investing_city) June 5, 2020
Business Breakdown [THREAD] pic.twitter.com/paPLCzHhpw
3/ Thread explaining popular software
Software terms are confusing right?!
— Ryan Reeves (@investing_city) August 21, 2020
I'll try my best to explain these concepts:
- Bookings
- Billings
- Revenue
- ARR
- DBNER
- DBGRR
- DBNRR
- Deferred Revenue
- RPO
[THREAD]
4/ On consistency
If, EVERYDAY, you:
— Ryan Reeves (@investing_city) July 13, 2020
- did 10 burpees
- read 20 pages of a book
- saved $10
That would probably put you in the top quartile for health, knowledge and wealth.
Consistency is extremely undervalued.
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To me, the most important aspect of the 2018 midterms wasn't even about partisan control, but about democracy and voting rights. That's the real battle.
2/The good news: It's now an issue that everyone's talking about, and that everyone cares about.
3/More good news: Florida's proposition to give felons voting rights won. But it didn't just win - it won with substantial support from Republican voters.
That suggests there is still SOME grassroots support for democracy that transcends
4/Yet more good news: Michigan made it easier to vote. Again, by plebiscite, showing broad support for voting rights as an
5/OK, now the bad news.
We seem to have accepted electoral dysfunction in Florida as a permanent thing. The 2000 election has never really
To me, the most important aspect of the 2018 midterms wasn't even about partisan control, but about democracy and voting rights. That's the real battle.
2/The good news: It's now an issue that everyone's talking about, and that everyone cares about.
3/More good news: Florida's proposition to give felons voting rights won. But it didn't just win - it won with substantial support from Republican voters.
That suggests there is still SOME grassroots support for democracy that transcends
4/Yet more good news: Michigan made it easier to vote. Again, by plebiscite, showing broad support for voting rights as an
5/OK, now the bad news.
We seem to have accepted electoral dysfunction in Florida as a permanent thing. The 2000 election has never really
Bad ballot design led to a lot of undervotes for Bill Nelson in Broward Co., possibly even enough to cost him his Senate seat. They do appear to be real undervotes, though, instead of tabulation errors. He doesn't really seem to have a path to victory. https://t.co/utUhY2KTaR
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 16, 2018
A THREAD ON @SarangSood
Decoded his way of analysis/logics for everyone to easily understand.
Have covered:
1. Analysis of volatility, how to foresee/signs.
2. Workbook
3. When to sell options
4. Diff category of days
5. How movement of option prices tell us what will happen
1. Keeps following volatility super closely.
Makes 7-8 different strategies to give him a sense of what's going on.
Whichever gives highest profit he trades in.
2. Theta falls when market moves.
Falls where market is headed towards not on our original position.
3. If you're an options seller then sell only when volatility is dropping, there is a high probability of you making the right trade and getting profit as a result
He believes in a market operator, if market mover sells volatility Sarang Sir joins him.
4. Theta decay vs Fall in vega
Sell when Vega is falling rather than for theta decay. You won't be trapped and higher probability of making profit.
Decoded his way of analysis/logics for everyone to easily understand.
Have covered:
1. Analysis of volatility, how to foresee/signs.
2. Workbook
3. When to sell options
4. Diff category of days
5. How movement of option prices tell us what will happen
1. Keeps following volatility super closely.
Makes 7-8 different strategies to give him a sense of what's going on.
Whichever gives highest profit he trades in.
I am quite different from your style. I follow the market's volatility very closely. I have mock positions in 7-8 different strategies which allows me to stay connected. Whichever gives best profit is usually the one i trade in.
— Sarang Sood (@SarangSood) August 13, 2019
2. Theta falls when market moves.
Falls where market is headed towards not on our original position.
Anilji most of the time these days Theta only falls when market moves. So the Theta actually falls where market has moved to, not where our position was in the first place. By shifting we can come close to capturing the Theta fall but not always.
— Sarang Sood (@SarangSood) June 24, 2019
3. If you're an options seller then sell only when volatility is dropping, there is a high probability of you making the right trade and getting profit as a result
He believes in a market operator, if market mover sells volatility Sarang Sir joins him.
This week has been great so far. The main aim is to be in the right side of the volatility, rest the market will reward.
— Sarang Sood (@SarangSood) July 3, 2019
4. Theta decay vs Fall in vega
Sell when Vega is falling rather than for theta decay. You won't be trapped and higher probability of making profit.
There is a difference between theta decay & fall in vega. Decay is certain but there is no guaranteed profit as delta moves can increase cost. Fall in vega on the other hand is backed by a powerful force that sells options and gives handsome returns. Our job is to identify them.
— Sarang Sood (@SarangSood) February 12, 2020
