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@LaraconIN @PovilasKorop As a content creator, consistency is key. Did you hit a slow phase or a slump at some point and how did you overcome it?

Povilas Korop (@PovilasKorop) has kickstarted his session on “10 Years of Laravel Content - What I Have Learned” on #LaraconIndia2026 stage. #Laracon #Laravel #LaraconIN ASK YOUR QUESTIONS IN THE COMMENTS DOWN BELOW. #AskLaraconIN

Anyone still using or maintaining Goodreads? I need a fourth shelf called “Did not finish (DNF)”. For someone like me who hates leaving anything unfinished, it would at least make me feel like I put the book on the right shelf and get some closure 😀

@Ktens @letsblinkit @SwiggyInstamart Happened to me with toast and nutri choice biscuits

Please pay attention when you’re ordering from @letsblinkit or @SwiggyInstamart 7 generations of my family won’t be short of staple pins now.

@hnshah Remote work relationships I have built over the years are deeper. It takes conscious effort to build them. Whatever we do consciously has more meaning for us than something that's left to chance or choice

Your strongest work relationships won’t come from the office. Office friendships happen because of proximity. Remote work relationships happen because of shared goals. In the early days of the internet, people built deep friendships without ever meeting in person. Bulletin boards, IRC, and AOL weren’t just places to chat. They were places where people worked together on shared interests. Online gaming took this further. In World of Warcraft and EVE Online, strangers formed high-functioning teams. They strategized, executed, and built real trust without ever seeing each other. Remote work isn’t the end of strong relationships. It just creates a different kind. The best teams won’t bond over coffee runs and hallway chats. They’ll bond by solving hard problems together. The strongest work relationships aren’t about where you are. They’re about what you build together.

@hnshah I can relate to this so much. Often when I try to build this is teams, i realise that acting by the manufacturing agency also requires courage and vulnerability. I feel people wait often due

Most people treat urgency like a switch, they turn it on when there’s a crisis and off when things feel under control. They’re wrong. The best operators, builders, and decision-makers don’t wait for urgency to find them. They manufacture it. They know that speed compounds. That momentum is fragile. That hesitation kills more opportunities than failure ever will. People assume urgency comes from pressure. Deadlines. External expectations. A ticking clock. But the truth is, urgency is an internal game. It’s a mindset. The best don’t need a deadline to move fast. They act like the clock is always running. Because it is. Look at any field. The top 1% aren’t just better at what they do. They move differently. They respond faster. They make decisions with less hesitation. They execute before others have even processed what’s happening. It’s not recklessness. It’s clarity. They know that waiting is a decision. That slowness has a cost. That most hesitation is just disguised fear. Urgency isn’t about rushing. It’s about eliminating friction. Most people waste time without realizing it. They overthink. They wait for more information. They hesitate because they don’t trust their instincts. But the best operate with a bias for action. They prioritize motion over perfection. They figure things out while moving forward instead of standing still. The first step to developing urgency is awareness. Track where your time actually goes. Not where you think it goes. Where it actually goes. Most people are shocked by how much of their day is spent on things that don’t move the needle. The second step is making faster decisions. Not reckless ones. Just faster ones. Most choices are reversible, yet people treat them like they’re life-or-death. The best know that action creates information. That most of the time, doing is the fastest way to learn. The third step is engineering constraints. Urgency thrives under pressure. If no external pressure exists, create it. Shorten your deadlines. Remove safety nets. Set stakes that make delay unacceptable. This isn’t about being reactive. It’s about controlling the tempo. People who operate with urgency don’t just get more done, they change the game entirely. They set the pace that everyone else has to follow. They don’t wait for the future to arrive. They build it before anyone else even sees it coming.

@thesouledstore Surprising an online store cannot deal with this! Bought a voucher as a rakhi gift, struggled to get voucher code for 3 weeks, now the person is struggling to redeem it. Bad customer experience at its peak, unbelievable!! #CustomerServiceFail #CustomerExperience

@VishalDayama Wow! Read more about smells in the book Anthropocene reviewed! It talks about a similar perspective to this. Keep writing!

As the Kirana store uncle is almost done billing the items my mother had placed on his table, I reach just in time with three bottles of deodorant in my hands. “What will you do with three?” my mom asks. “It’s 2 plus 1,” the Kirana uncle replies before I can answer. Back then, deodorant bottles were treated like that distant relative who gets the last invitation to the wedding. If the budget allows, they are most welcome. Come with family. Two plus one. But if the budget doesn’t permit it, let’s be honest, nobody’s going to terribly miss them. “We already have a bottle at home,” my mom says in a tone that tells me these relatives are not to be invited. I go back with the bottle family to see them off at their aisle station. “But that perfume was different,” I tell my mom on our rickshaw ride back home. For many years, I did not know the difference between deodorant and perfume. “Finish the one at home first,” my mom replies as if it’s Bournvita. We sit silently for the remaining ten minutes of the ride, smelling the cycle-rickshaw puller. For our vacations, I have been handed the responsibility of being responsible, while my wife saunters around every damn shop without a care in the world. I sometimes slightly wish for her to get lost in the crowd for a few seconds, so that next time onwards, I at least won’t have to carry her phone in my pocket. A few seconds of panic might make her realize that one should always keep their phone with them. That’s the whole point of mobile phones. To keep it with you when you are mobile. Why else did we move away from landlines? I think my blood pressure is rising while writing these sentences. Anyway, we have just done our immigration check at the airport, and I am keeping the passports back in that zipped folder with the boarding passes like a focused six-year-old who is arranging his first-ever geometry box. This simple task takes me a few seconds, and when I look up, I see that my wife has waddled away like a toddler to the duty-free section. She is looking at some perfumes. I tell her I have packed a deodorant. It’s a joke. By now, I know the difference between deodorant and perfumes. She ends up buying some Issey Miyake. I end up with the task of keeping it in my bag. Over the next few days, I would start loving the fragrance. And over the next few months, I’d start loving everything about fragrances. In his book “The Perfect Scent,” Chandler Burr writes briefly about how little we know of fragrances and their connection with triggering a memory of years back. Science has progressed enough in the areas of vision or hearing, heck we know what every single receptor or air vibration is doing in our body, but the scientists still haven't scratched the surface about smell. It’s a Nobel waiting to be given. The only powerful smell and the word related to smell we know of is petrichor; thanks to the Mumbai rains and the people living in Mumbai who keep putting it up in their stories. However, when it rains for two weeks continuously the word quickly changes from petrichor to betichod, I wonder why. While there are phrases like smelling danger or this smells fishy or I smell a rat, fragrances have very rarely made it to our daily vocabulary. There isn’t a way of describing a smell that would exactly describe the smell. It’s always burnt wood with rose or something like that. Nobody can guess what the other person is talking about. The reason probably is how we associate those smells with our lives. While it may be burnt wood for some rich guy in France who goes for bonfires occasionally, the same smell can be described as village cooking in an Indian context. The biggest nightmare I had when corona hit me was not the fever, but the loss of smell. I felt vulnerable. “Why can’t I smell the adrak in my tea?” I’d constantly whine. The headache that the tea was supposed to cure was being canceled out by my cry for being unable to smell ginger. I was miserable. In hindsight, there have been many instances where our olfactory senses have superseded our visual or hearing senses. Water is the most basic and apt example. Looks fine, smells bad? No drinky, says our brain. Author’s note: olfactory, not to be confused with Ola factory where all the exploded scooters come for a meet and greet, means something related to smell. In "Scent of a Woman," when Al Pacino identifies the exact perfume that kid’s teacher was wearing, I clapped. Fleurs de Rocaille. Flowers from the brook. I was fascinated. I wanted to be that man. How crazy would it be if we could identify different smells and describe them in a brief sentence. I’d want that superpower. It’s the true testament of a writer, I feel. Or of a life fully lived. Summarizing the smell in a sentence using a life experience that has been intimate yet relatable. Uff. Devastatingly beautiful. My nose or my words aren’t capable of that yet. Neither they ever will be, I feel. At this point in life, I have realized that all I am capable of smelling is disappointment with myself. In that regard, my nose is fine. It’s a seven-hour-long flight, and I am wondering to myself if my wife will buy another perfume today. My middle-class upbringing wouldn’t allow me to spend that much money on a bottle of fragrance. But I am secretly hoping she buys it or at least samples it. I want to try a fragrance that was released in 2023 by Diptyque. However, I don’t want to pay for it. Like Jean-Claude Ellena said, “I'm not interested in luxury, but I'm interested in the quality of life that is led by people who are interested in luxury.”

@tom_peters At Axelerant, we refrain from using the term "resources" for people. We take that very seriously often reminding folks to not use the term. So we have never had HR ever, it was earlier people operations and recently shifted to being people care.

I want to start a full-fledged, no bullshit campaign to ban the use of the term “human resources,” or its shorthand “HR..” I am “Tom,” I am NOT a “human resource.” Wanna help me design and execute an online campaign launch party?

@JamesClear Since the inputs are less visible we often attribute others'success to factors like luck!

The edge is in the inputs. The person who consumes from better sources, gets better thoughts. The person who asks better questions, gets better answers. The person who builds better habits, gets better results. It’s not the outcomes. It’s the inputs.

@thevirdas Try Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

I need audiobook recommendations. Nothing too wordy. Mostly for listening to at the gym or at airports. Fantasy fiction, espionage, detective stuff and world war 2 welcome. What say?

@MegStEsprit I was recently doing a live stream. 7 yo walks in with a snack box. Frantically gestures to open it. I open snack box while chatting to my guests on the live stream!

Nearly every interview I’ve done w/moms this week has kids popping in to say hi, moms still in gym clothes and sweaty, calls from cars or closets (me too!), or a pause to make a snack. Every man I’ve interviewed was in a quiet office space and was not interrupted once.

@rmnth Loved this! I have always been a doer myself and kept questioning if I have the capacity to think deeply. This is a revelation. Sometime doers are tagged down as operations but people tend to forget that is what keeps the lights on!

Steve Jobs on why doers are thinkers. Today's doodle.

This is from today. Yesterday there was another bike accident where the individual is now dealing with a fracture. Is it a question of waiting for something worse to happen before action can be taken?

@AmdavadAMC Every road in south bopal has these concrete blocks placed right in the middle. Is citizen safety a priority when upgrading infrastructure or is it a price we need to pay for getting basic facilities such as a good road?

@DanaPylayeva @AgileAlliance Count me in! I am looking to get involved in the community space and this looks exciting.

#agile2023 call for reviewers I am back at the Program Team @AgileAlliance in 2023 and looking for reviewers. If you'd like to help with the program selection, learn how to write a good proposal, and collaborate with awesome people, ping me. #CFP will open soon, stay tuned!

I often have millions of random thoughts each day that keep my mind racing. In an attempt to channelize the energy, here is a feeble start to a hopefully successful writing routine! linkedin.com/posts/hetalmis…

@PMArticles Ability to stay calm and think straight when chaos is raging around them

What's the most important quality for a project manager to have? Don't worry there's no wrong answers 😊

Do you derive identity by comparing yourself with me? This is Maya, a necessary delusion without which society cannot function. It can uplift you with inspiration, depress you with jealousy or grant you peace by revealing how different you are from me. #truthbombs #mygita

Agility at scale = Autonomy +Alignment Great insights from @tastapod #AgileIndia2020

Attitudes are lead indicators. Look at your informal networks. Build a culture not a mindset.

What you do is greater than what you say! Great takeaway from @snowded's keynote at #AgileIndia2020