Joseph Brendon
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Joseph Brendon
@brejofit
No Guts, No Glory.
Bengaluru, India Katılım Mart 2015
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@tiadeeznuts i thought this too but all you really gotta do is start pressing buttons
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@tiadeeznuts I just fuck around and find out whenever I do music
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@sebastemp @patrickc Those interested would ask follow-on questions and get better clarity
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Which are the most common everyday phenomena that we don't properly understand?
Off the top of my head:
• Lightning (how does it happen?)
• Sleep; dreams (why do they exist?)
• Glass (thermodynamics of formation)
• Turbulence (when does it start?)
• Morphogenesis (how does a creature know what should go where?)
• Rain (it seems to start faster than models would predict)
• Ice (dynamics of slipperiness)
• Static electricity (which material will donate electrons?)
• General anaesthetic. (And the mechanism of a lot of drugs, e.g. paracetamol.)
Patrick Collison@patrickc
Some progress in lightning: quantamagazine.org/what-causes-li….
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Vijay has to be the most blessed man
Born in a well to do family
Continuous flops during debut backed by his father
Spent a career where producers were behind unlike other actors who needed backing
Now winning an election with just 2 years of contesting
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A new trend is emerging in apartments. Home cooks are selling to other houses, and people are happy buying home cooked food with no delivery fees. Someone like @MyGate_com should create a feature to formalise this.
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Most arguments are not really about the argument, so most arguments can’t be won by arguing.
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Asking “what-if?” about your past is a waste of time; asking “what-if?” about your future is tremendously productive.
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The best way to criticize something is to make something better.
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when you don't want to throw away the side remains from the bun making machine
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Even if you consider another 15% playing a sport/walking/going to a gym outside; 80% still not being physically active is a concern across societies (including mine) with fitness centres.
With more recreational time moving up the economic ladder, Indians have chosen to fill it with entertainment instead of an active lifestyle :(
Aviral Bhatnagar@aviralbhat
My society gym has about 45 people everyday on its register, with most names recurrent Assuming people workout 3x a week, that's 100 unique people in a complex with 1K+ apartments 100 people in 2K workout every week, 5% when the gym is literally inside Access isn't the problem
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Yo Product Manager!
Are you solving a real problem?
A real problem satisfies all three:
1. Frequency – happens often
2. Intensity – hurts enough to motivate change
3. Unmetness – current solutions are insufficient
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TIL Upma is the highest selling dish in-flight
from a friend working in Airlines
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Here we go, businesses drifting away from real consumer feedback even more!
No matter how much data we collect and simulate, a web tracking tool’s data can’t cover all the real world factors.
Mikhail Parakhin@MParakhin
Today we started rolling out SimGym — a system that creates “digital customers” that behave like real ones. They browse your site, complete tasks, and reveal optimization opportunities. You can even run A/B tests with *zero* live traffic! Spent a year developing it.
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We think being indispensable means saying yes to everything: meetings, “quick asks”, DMs, fire drills.
It doesn’t.
The go‑to person isn’t the busiest one in the room.
They’re the one everyone trusts when something actually needs to get done well, fast, and reliably.
Be known for a few things you do exceptionally well.
Every strong “no” makes room for a better “yes” you can deliver brilliantly.
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“Be yourself” might be the most overrated career advice.
Most people use “authenticity” as a license to stay the same.
Say what they want, how they want, and then blame the world when it doesn’t land 🫠
High performers don’t optimise for feeling authentic, they optimise for impact: how others experience them, whether the team gets better, and whether the business moves.
A better mental model: don’t be your current self, be your future self.
Read the room and decide which version of you serves the room best.
Stop asking, “How do I show up more authentically?”
Start asking, “What version of me would be most useful to this team, this customer, this moment?”
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