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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
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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

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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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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.

3/

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

4/

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 story of WOW! Momo

"Started from the bottom now we're here"
How WOW! Momo went from borrowing Rs. 30K, to being valued at over Rs. 860 crore


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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.

2/

But he knew that he's always been passionate about brands. He had Nike, Puma’s stickers/logos in his notebook (that's literally me!)

3/

Sagar and Binod originally got the idea of WOW! Momo after completion of 3rd year of graduation as they were waiting for their results at the age of 21.

They got the idea of WOW! Momo by observing the lady who used to sell tasty momos in front of their college

4/

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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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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Part-II
Startup Bharat: @naval & @balajis

The full Clubhouse session in text

Thread Continued

16/

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.

17/

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.

18/

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.

19/

One of the big problems with a developing country like India is you just have horrible pollution and traffic. But you can see how over time that in the West, a lot of non-electric vehicles are being replaced by electric vehicles not because they're cooler or necessarily...
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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
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3/ Managing people is not a promotion in your current line of work. It is an entirely new career that uses a different set of skills. Train. Your. People Managers.

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5/ Provide non-management career options that offer better compensation for specializing in a certain area and documenting/communicating what you know. This helps keep bad managers out of management.
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Twitter is, by far, the fastest way to build a high-quality audience.

Why?

It's quicker to write insightful tweets than it is to produce 10min YouTube videos or 1400-word blog posts.

Here's a thread of actionable tactics from studying the fastest-growing Twitter accounts.

2/ Fast-growing accounts have two things in common:

1. They spend 30+ minutes per day sourcing and refining 1-3 daily tweets. They don't wing what they say, and they typically sit on each idea for a few days.

2. Key: They write tweets that get *retweeted.*

3/ Retweets bring followers.

We polled people to ask why they retweet. They said:

1. "Retweeting is my bookmarking system for ideas."

2. "I retweet when someone's put elegant words to my thoughts."

3. "I want my followers to know I relate to this statement."

4/ So, to get more RTs:

1. Tweet referenceable content that people will refer back to later.

2. Challenge the status quo with elegance and wit.

3. Pick a debate and argue your side with a novel take.

The most RTed tweets? *Threads with advice like this.*

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It is past due time we talk about microaggressions on interviews (a thread #MedTwitter #AcademicTwitter):

First, microaggressions are harmful! Despite their name, they signal “you don’t belong here” to marginalized groups.

Second, interview days are already nerve-wrecking.

One comment or experience has the ability to undermine an interview day. Applicants may not have the ability to report immediately and anonymously or may fear retribution for doing so. Interview day microaggressions put applicants in an awkward spot in addition to the harm.

They are also not rare experiences. As a Black woman, I have experienced them at multiple institutions and different levels. I’m sharing my stories as examples of what happens, but I have no doubt there are many others, even within your institution, that need to be responded to.

College: I had an in-person panel interview for a full-tuition scholarship. One POC on the panel repeatedly asked, “where are you from?” I was 17 and eager to please, but also knew I didn’t have to share that my ancestors were traumatized thru slavery. I got flustered and bombed.

Med school: A diversity website wrote, we need more physicians of color because they are more likely to serve in underserved communities. While true, the reason we need more representation in medicine is because minoritized groups have been kept out. PERIOD. I didn’t apply there.
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If you use it right, Twitter is the most powerful platform in the world.

But Twitter does a horrible job of showing you its advanced features.

Here are 10 of them you probably know nothing about:

The most underutilized Twitter feature: advanced search.

It blows my mind how few people know this.

Want to find someone's best tweets?

In the search bar, type:

from:dickiebush min_faves:500

Replace the handle and the number of likes as you see fit.

Another good advanced search tip:

Want to see everyone's tweets on a particular topic?

In the search bar, type:

from:dickiebush "consistency"

Again, replace the handle and keyword as you see fit.

You can filter by popularity too:

from:dickiebush "consistency" min_faves:100

We all have those people we don't want following us, but don't want to block.

Here's a good hack:

Block them, then unblock them.

This will unfollow you, but they'll never know.

Get mentioned in a tweet that is receiving way too many replies, turning your notifications into a disaster?

I've been there.

Click to expand the details of the tweet, then click the three dots on the top right-hand corner.

Then, click "mute this conversation."
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