Had a great chat today w/ @Shivam Jha ! Discussed: - his product nawvel + lessons from building (http://nawvel.com) - escaping competition through authenticity - importance of being connected to other founders/independent thinkers - my new project gemz (https://www.gemzapp.ca) - startup accelerators - unconventional thinking amidst traditional education Look forward to running it back again! cheers ✌🏼

I started writing on Twitter back in June. It was easy to get discouraged at that time because no one was reading anything I put out, but looking back that allowed me to focus on building the habit of writing consistently. It's important that people go through this step because they get comfortable putting their ideas out into the world -- independent of a dopamine driven feedback loop. In June, I published 154 tweets and gained 11 followers. To build, scale, and compound an audience takes patience. You need to build trust, authority, and quality. In August, I published 95 tweets and netted -2 followers. At a certain point it can become discouraging, but success comes in layers. You can't have an audience like @Andrew Kirby's because you don't have the system in place to succeed long-term. Overtime, you build the necessary components to scale. Your workflows start to mold into something that allow you to proceed content that resonates with your audience. After 8 months of publishing on Twitter here's what my growth looked like: - Jun: 11 followers - Jul: 11 followers - Aug: -2 followers - Sep: 76 followers - Oct: 530 followers - Nov: 126 followers - Dec: 165 followers - Jan: 2,240 followers Just be patient and say consistent. Experiment with different ways to package up your ideas and find the systems that allow you to do that in the most effective way. Success comes from layering on these iterations to enable your creativity.

I'm still recovering from a crazy viral fever (104 degrees at it's peak). Basically got no work done this week. Just trying to survive at this point. While drowning in pain, some really cool things happened. #1 • Attachments 1, 2 and 3 (outbound) • I reached out to Mike Dee (ProjectElon). He's hiring for a range of roles. • Man's a legend in the speed learning YouTube scene. #2 • Attachment 4 (inbound) • 3 months ago, I got a job offer to run operations for a web 3 agency. • My friend who works at ChainLink referred me. • We couldn't agree on my non-negotiable at the time (that I can run my business while working with them) • The CEO reached out again. #3 • Attachment 5 (HEC Paris network) • I was the youngest in my cohort of 104 students for my MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at HEC Paris. • One of my classmates from Luxembourg is building a VC firm and reached out. #4 (inbound) • Attachment 6 • My brilliant friend @Chaitanya Agrawal's ex-boss reached out for a project. • It's a funny coincidence cause my guy Chaitanya, or as I call him Thotho, didn't tell him about me. __ My takeaways this week - • Plant seeds. • Impatience with action, patience with results. (Naval) • A healthy man wants a thousand things. An unhealthy man only wants one. (Confucius)

Story time because anyone can do this with an offer: A few weeks ago I noticed there was a trend was just starting to happen on Twitter -- ChatGPT prompts. After collecting a few of them I noticed most of them were just surface level and didn't actually explain how to use them at all so I spent an hour putting together my own notion page and outlining the specific way you'd us each prompt. This went viral reaching almost 850k people. I made my money by being the only person to plug an offer in their giveaway to https://aicontentreactor.com/. It was an affiliate link because I didn't have my own offer that I could put together that quickly, but I knew everyone participating in this would find Rob's course interesting. In the end I made $225 and anyone (even with like 100 followers) can repeat this same formula. It's a lesser known way to drive traffic to an offer, especially as a small account like mine. __ One thing I wish that I did different though was use Gumroad or another platform to capture their emails. I screwed up because I had no way to retarget everyone with the affiliate offer other than manually DM them (and that was broken)

I am really happy to share that my first book got officially launched on Amazon, paperback Never even imagined that I would be able to hold my own book in hand. Really appreciate all the support from this community. Thank you guys! https://twitter.com/SathyaHQ/status/1617784243639455746