The Month That It Was #2
Hello ??,
It is again that time of the month. Hope all of you had a great beginning to the new 'work year' and have exciting things going on.
There are quite a few things that has happened this month and some really interesting initiatives that I am trying to roll out in the coming months. I am putting out this update for the month here, so if there is anything relevant for anyone who is reading this, you know you can just reach out.
The Percolator
The newsletter that I started three months ago and a lot of you probably are on the subscribers list have grown really well over last 90 days, and have received enormous supports, suggestions and feedback. To be honest, starting and sustaining a newsletter turned out to be way more of a job than I had thought. But we are going strong!
There are two great news and many updates on that front. But first the news:
We are at 10,000+ subscribers now ??????????
The Percolator is now free for everyone! ????
Updates about changes in The Percolator
Over past 90 days, I shipped about 20 newsletters as we progressively grew to 10,000+ subscribers. You all shared your suggestions and feedback at every stage, which helped me make the newsletters more relevant and valuable to each of you. Based on your feedback, following are the changes I am introducing to the Percolator:
Schedule & Format
To make the newsletter more interesting and diverse, I am experimenting with the format to mix the my original posts, along with curated content from what I have been reading. For the topic, I will be focussing more on ideas, technology and trends for the future; and curate content on frameworks, mental-models and best practices.
In the month of May, I will target to drop a newsletter every week with occasional long form ramblings of my mind.
Job Board and Talent Collective
A large part of my subscribers are professionals based across India, US and UK who are looking for new interesting career opportunities, so I think it will be great value to all of you if I can curate and share some great job openings with you.
In every newsletter I will share with you a list of job roles from my job board which I am curating on Pallet. You will get my picks directly in your newsletter, but if you like you can see the whole list by going to The Percolator Job Board directly.
Currently, there are some really interesting roles open from Coinbase, Robinhood, Revolut, Reddit, Yelp etc.
Alternatively, you can also join my talent collective where I will curate and forward candidates to companies who will then directly reach out to you.
The talent collective process is simple, you apply to be a part of it and if selected, the companies reach out to you offering interviews.
Community
We are 10,000+ strong community and there is much value we can create if we come together and connect with each other. It was a suggestion from some of the readers to build a way in which readers of percolator can freely connect with each other.
I am not sure about the interest around it, but as an experiment, I am setting up two community space that can be utilized for more active engagement among every one.
Twitter Community
Twitter have launched a new community feature and it will be exciting to try it out and see how we can use the platform in #ElonEra - so if you are on Twitter and have the feature available to you please join the community there
If you haven’t have the feature available to you, you may follow me and I will directly try to add you to the community.
Discord Community
I am also setting up a discord community, which I believe can be more useful to manage if we end up building a large and diverse community. It will allow us to build channels based on interests, professions etc.
Also if you are a decentralized web and verified anonymity enthusiast, you might like this one better.
The Percolator Podcast
This is one of the suggestions that I have received and to be honest not very certain about it but open to it. We can start off with once or twice a month. I would love to talk to someone who is building something super interesting, or is part of an industry which is rapidly changing.
If there are something interesting you want to talk about, listen about or have any suggestion, please share it with me and would try to work something around it.
I hope you like the changes being made to The Percolator. I would continue to include your suggestions to make Percolator more and more valuable to you.
Office Hours: Updates on Work Front
Some very exciting developments are taking place on work front
founders’ lab
We are building some very interesting product for early stage founders - the ideapreneurs who are toying with their ideas and figuring out how to get it to next stage.
At founders’ lab we are building a solution for you, which helps you ideate, validate, build and test your MVP in an accelerated manner by providing you resources, tool and community to help you in your entrepreneurial journey.
We would be launching it soon, in the meanwhile please follow the LinkedIn pages to stay updated on the development.
Indicultr
Indicultr is a lifestyle and aesthetics brand embodying continued cultural heritage of India. It draws upon the civilizational knowledge, traditional practices and folk wisdom, to bring the natural respite of Indian aesthetics to the modern lifestyle; and supports the millennia old treasure of sustainable practices carried out by our farmers & artisans.?The mantra at IndiCultr is?‘Simplifying life, the India way’
The first range of products are now live on Amazon and you can check them out. Browse on Amazon
5 from the Month
These are my 5 recommendation from the things I watched, read or came across, the last month. Hope you find them interesting.
One Show
The show that I enjoyed watching this month was a legal drama on Amazon Prime Video -?Guilty Minds. The 10-episode show covers pretty much every kind of interesting legal battle one can think of in India and does quite a good job of building a story around them. I have been a fan of Suits and this is very different from that, but still good fun to watch.
One Book
I read a very interesting book this month,?Pure Evil - The Bad Men of Bollywood?by Balaji Vittal. The book chronicles the journey of the villainous characters and anti heroes in Hindi Film Industry from the very early days of cinema in India till now.
Who, and what kind of villains came in different era give a good representation of how the society was evolving in those times. It is quick, light read which can be very interesting.
One Article
Have you been ever curious what counted as news a century ago. Is completely random, extremely bizarre reports are an outcome of internet era?
Check this article from or rather collection of articles in New York Times from April 1, 2019 I chanced upon this week. It contains?all the extremely bizarre stories that were published in NYT in past centuries.
One Tech
In the cutting edge technology, we are making huge developments in the space of brain computer interfacing. We have had devices aiding differently abled people for quite some time now, but the interfaces are becoming more and more sophisticated, and we are just about at the cusp of the mass commercialization of the technology.?Give a read to this wonderful article published in Nature ten days ago to get more details.
One Thought
The whole Twitter debacle has raised much question about how much free speech should actually be allowed, and if censoring the way ahead then who should be allowed to censor.
Bizarrely, the polarization have very unexpected groups on the two side of the discussion. One would expect libertarian, liberals and progressive advocating for free speech, but we saw even Barack Obama come out and suggest the necessity of censorship. Whereas the conservative crowd across the globe is turning out to be free speech absolut-ist, at least on twitter.
The question is, if censoring power should be given. Who should it be holding the decision on who to censor? Typically the power lies with the government and people have always fought against that. Now, we have tech giants trying to have that power and a lot of people who fought governments, think it is fare.
Governments are generally bad implementor whereas tech giants can execute censorship efficient and at scale.
Who would you want to be in control?
…and a Bonus
Just yesterday, Tata Passenger Electric Mobility had unveiled the concept EV - Avinya. It looks exquisite,?do check it out on their website.
Thank you for reading this, and I hope you find this useful.
I would love to hear from you about what you are up to these days and if we should connect some time.
Hope you have a great month ahead.
Cheers!
Full Stack Entrepreneur & Academic - focused on AI + Web3 + ESG
2 年Looking forward to collaborating on this one!