One thing that I do almost every day is ‘people hunt’. It’s what I call finding people who are at the top of their field, people I can learn from and be inspired by.
It first started when I opened an account for my art on Instagram. Since I did not follow anyone from my social circle, the recommendations introduced me to a whole new set of top notch artists, freelancers, and business leaders.
When I opened twitter, I didn’t follow anyone I knew on purpose. I instead followed a few whom I found through Instagram, and let the algorithm take me for a joyride. That’s how I discovered -
Vensy Krishna - who’s a wizard at NoCode
Shreya Pattar - A brilliant write-preneur who has authored four books
Ankur Warikoo - An investor and entrepreneur who gives experience based advice
Naval - An entrepreneur-investor who serves cold hard truths, talks about technology and philosophy
David Perell - A top writer who teaches people to write (and tweets about both)
Would you like a list of people I ‘hunt’ every week? Hit reply and let me know.
Brain Food
Killing Eve is a series that follows an assassin and an agent engaged in a cat and mouse chase across countries with a storyline that seems both absurd and believable. This dives into more details on the theme. You can watch it on Amazon Prime.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D sheds light on what the Octopus like creature that cameo’d in ‘What If’ is, and also the ACTUAL history behind Hydra. The Sci-fi/superhero series is worth watching for the storyline and character development. You can find it on Hotstar.
Reading has taken a hit. I’m still stuck with ‘So good they can’t ignore you’, which is proving to be a heavy read. Will be pivoting to fiction for a while. Any recommendations?
Finance
With the world gearing up for a NoCode revolution, there’s no better time to create digital products that can act as a passive income source for you.
A digital product with enough effort, quality and marketing, is built once, and sold multiple times. It can be anything from educational courses, software, templates, books, and most recently, NFTs.
All it needs is a field you have enough expertise in, and enough people interested and willing to spend $$ on it.
It’s also a matter of timing. A social media expert made almost 5,000£ on a course for making reels when it was just introduced. A designer made almost 10,000$ on a black icons set when Apple made its icons customizable.
Glide Apps, Notion, TypeForm, Webflow, Bubble, Product Hunt and so many other platforms make it easy to build and create without code. There’s never been a better time in history to turn your ideas into reality.
Hit reply and let me know if you have an idea. Let’s figure out how to take action, together.
And remember, ideas aren’t silly if they end up working out.
Finds of the week
You can find curated twitter threads all in one place by some incredible people here.
Stoa is a 6 month program created as an alternative to the traditional MBA degree.
Pranita is an illustrator and mental health advocate who sells merch that you’d want to gift your friends (or yourself!).
A Quote and a Question
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." - Dead Poets Society.
Whatever problems you might be facing right now, ask yourself, are they worthwhile problems to face?
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Big fan of Pranita's merch!! Her bookmarks are my absolute favorites!!
This is awesome buddy :) And something on NFTs again, nice that.
Quote on poetry though was on point and stands for anyone who writes their life out too :)