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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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 No one is perfect from the beginning. Self development is a journey.

I made almost all of the mistakes I've mentioned further in the thread
1/

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
2/

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"
3/

Whenever you send a Cold DM, keep the message short and precise.

@palakzat and @SumneshSalodkar guided me in the right direction with this
4/

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
5/

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
6/

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
7/

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
8/

Avoid DMing anyone on WhatsApp until and unless you've joined their WhatsApp newsletter

https://t.co/EoYEWJp3cY
9/

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
10/

Choose a specific niche, post content around it and build an audience
11/

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
12/

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
13/

Always have a profile picture of yours. Means, your face should be in the DP

Learned this from @shlokafc
14/

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
15/

Never message busy/important people asking "What are your thoughts on..."

As mentioned previously, message only with a purpose

Learned this from @warikoo
16/

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
17/

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
18/

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
19/

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
20/

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.
21/

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
22/

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
23/

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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"Started from the bottom now we're here"
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Year 2008, classmates Sagar Daryani and Binod Kumar Homagai had just finished their graduation, and Sagar realized that he was too fragile in math to be able to clear CAT.

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Sagar and Binod used to research all night together. In the night Binod would make Momo and Sagar Daryani would make toss bread etc.
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The full Clubhouse session in text

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Naval: The Boston ecosystem has always regretting that they've sort of lost these companies.

India has to make sure it doesn't lose as entrepreneurs. And the way to do that is to give them the freedom to innovate. Everyone should be an entrepreneur.

2/

Everyone has a phone should be able to get a job through the phone. There's one level beyond that, that comes after that, which is everyone has a phone, should be a creator for the phone. And that's what platforms are enabling.

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There's the old, famous New Yorker cartoon with a dog on the internet, on the computer and it says on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. Well, yeah, on the internet, nobody knows who you are or where you are or what you are. All they care about is your output

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And that is incredibly liberating for a country that's so large and has such a good English speaking population, India can win, it just has to remove shackles.
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The full Clubhouse session in text

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Naval: It's funny because right now there's like that dude, where's my flying car mean, which is like, we were promised flying cars, but instead we got, 280 characters, 140 characters, and there's some truth to that. But at the same time, We're going to get our flying cars.

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We have drones that are flying overhead. How long before those things are carrying larger and larger payloads, but carry humans all the way. Maybe not, but there's lots of other electric plane companies coming.

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We have electric cars, we have rockets. If you can look at like bird and lime and so on that electric scooter revolution, that's a bigger deal than people think.

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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

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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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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


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All your reach on social media is dependent on Network effects.

If you're below < 2k followers most of your tweets should be helpful replies to other larger accounts.

Don't be a "reply guy" tho. The audience of a large account can tell & the large account holder my block u.


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Specify why people should follow you in your bio.
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