Tejus W

i've been sitting with a phrase: "strategic authenticity." the unpolished version of you isn't more real. the unpolished version of you isn't more real. the unpolished version of you isn't more real. they think it means "just be yourself" — on dates, in your career, in life. so they stay exactly as they are. and call it integrity. strategic authenticity is different. it means being your real self - deliberately sharpened for the room you're in. - speaking better. - becoming more charming. - making experiences memorable. - developing taste. refusing to be boring because "this is just how i am." here's the part people miss: >> that isn't performing. performing is pretending to be someone you're not. this is closing the gap between who you already are and how the world receives you. it's just under-expressed. authenticity was never about refusing to grow. it's about becoming a sharper expression of who you already are.

@ThePeterMick here my pitch:

This Casio is your startup. Sell me this Casio.

@KaiXCreator levo.so - too good at what it does

Name a tech company that literally nobody hates

@soham_nayak04 Antilia

What’s the best place in India to be a founder?

@Simridhi_ 😂😂

@tejus_w_ lmaoooo

adult friendship hack: make friends with 0 overlap with your work.

@Scobleizer @heyblake yes, that makes sense. if he had publicly owned that belief consistently, he would’ve become the Web 2.0 guy.

I sat next to Tim O'Reilly at Google's first advertiser's conference. He wrote the Web 2.0 memo the night before we met. I wrote to Bill Gates (who I worked for back then) that he should buy a bunch of Web 2.0 companies. Like Skype, Automattic, and others. The answer that came back said my ideas had no business value. He later bought Skype for six billion more and missed Automattic, which today runs about 60% of the Web. Today you might have conviction that everyone will have smartglasses in a few years. Or a humanoid robot. Or take a robotaxi instead of driving a car to work.

Pick one belief you'll defend in public that 60% of your industry would argue with. Post from that belief for 12 months. You now have positioning your competitors literally cannot copy.

@VedikaBhaia as the older fish said to the young - this is the ocean 😌 (iykyk)

i often romanticise a life like this but I lowkey think once I have it I’ll just be like okay now wtf do i do

true! unlearning stuff is the real pain in the ars*

@TTrimoreau practising to think through first principle for 2nd and 3rd order consequences youtu.be/71ZBVyCG_YU?si…

What’s one thing you wish you spent more time learning earlier?

Eventually I think the best coping mechanism is a hobby. Your interests will always nurse you back to joy.Reading, writing, playing a sport - find something that brings joy, then spend enough time nurturing it. Rely on it to always help you find your way back.

@DanielSmidstrup won't say the name, but we all know that one kind that does this

seriously, who is still mad at AI after 2026?

I'm a big fan of the "GPS Theory" when you miss a turn, your GPS doesn't judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds another way forward. Life works like that too. You'll make mistakes, but your destination doesn't vanish. The route just changes.

@bluewmist dedicating your time to do something bigger than yourself like an artist >>>>

@bluewmist it just takes one more day every day to be great from good

This is the Paradox of Competence: Your ability to become competent at anything is dependent on your ability to tolerate being incompetent. Having no clue what you're doing is the cost of entry for becoming skilled at what you do. If you master the skill of tolerating the discomfort of not knowing, you master the skill of becoming competent.

@rajshamani i have learned switch it off by: - picking new hobbies - moving out. travelling - overworking till the time the action creates new emotions - eating icecream (v imp⭐️)

Your brain remembers pain longer than pleasure. That’s why one loss can outweigh ten wins. If you can’t handle negativity, you’ll never handle success.

a team that can't move without you isn't a team you've led. it's one you've trapped. and trapped yourself with. real delegation has one goal. make yourself unnecessary. on purpose.

3. no checkpoints. most managers define two things. the start and the deadline. nothing in between. so every problem that shows up mid-way routes through one person. you. define the milestones instead. where by tuesday? what if step 2 fails? who escalates? what does "done" mean? now the system catches the problem. not you.

if your team needs you, that's not loyalty. it's a BUG. a bug you built. i've trained 15+ managers. the sharpest ones had the most loyal teams and the most fragile. learned from a 10+ yrs senior -> delegation isn't a people problem. it's a design problem. here's the test: "if you vanished tomorrow, does the work still move?" if no, you haven't delegated. you've just made yourself load-bearing. 3 places you build the bug 👇