Successful people who live a modest life, live in normal homes, wear normal clothes and do normal things. You probably haven’t heard of them before, but that’s the way they want it to be. Living this life doesn’t mean they aren’t successful, it means that they remain sober and can stay focused on their jobs.

”Sobriety is the counterweight that must balance out success. Especially if things keep getting better and better.”

Have a good day everyone 🙌

Any PHP Zend guys available for 3 months, let me know. Thanks!

The best way to improve your self-control is to see how and why you lose control. —Kelly McGonigal​

Let's end the week on a strong note 💪🏼

Anyone here coming to ReactFoo tomorrow ?

🤔 I have been thinking about stopping writing personal essays ( RI Brew newsletter) because - I am sharing a narrative which is very personal. The steps I am taking are not necessarily gonna be very useful for other people.

"The danger is that your life becomes fiction, you fall into the trap of pretending that you live this great life. Instead, you must remember the reality, focus on the real world and work hard."

"Instead of pretending that we are living some great story, we must remain focused on the execution—and on executing with excellence. We must shun the false crown and continue working on what got us here."

Happy to hear what your thoughts are 😊

Reading cover story in Economic Times today .. looks like there is a big opportunity here

|￣ ￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ ￣￣￣￣￣ ￣ | | "First they ignore you, | | then they laugh at you, | | then they fight you, | | then you win" | | | | Have a good week everyone 🙌 | |＿ ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ＿＿＿＿| \ (•◡•) / \ / --- | |

@calm-grass-85557 we need more emoji 😞

is it legal in India to run a Slack org without

:party-parrot:

? 😲

Sure !! Will do that when I get a chance

This poll is closed. @calm-grass-85557 has a poll for you!

Does anyone have a subscription for Nomadlist? Wanted to check if its worth it and for meeting folks while travelling etc https://nomadlist.com

@swift-pilot-25722 nomadlist is cool 👌 I was one of the earliest lifetime members but I later got banned 😂 I found it to be worth it, but your mileage may vary!

⏰ Poll closes tomorrow. Don't forget to share your insights 🙌🏼

"Which brings us to the existential aspect of randomness. If you are not a washing machine or a cuckoo clock—in other words, if you are alive—something deep in your soul likes a certain measure of randomness and disorder." - Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Who here does like a little measure of randomness and disorder 🙋🏼‍♂️ 😅

That said, for every quote, there is a counter quote 😅

"Habits do not restrict freedom. They create it. In fact, the people who don’t have their habits handled are often the ones with the least amount of freedom. Without good financial habits, you will always be struggling for the next dollar. Without good health habits, you will always seem to be short on energy. Without good learning habits, you will always feel like you’re behind the curve. If you’re always being forced to make decisions about simple tasks—when should I work out, where do I go to write, when do I pay the bills—then you have less time for freedom. It’s only by making the fundamentals of life easier that you can create the mental space needed for free thinking and creativity." - Atomic Habits by James Clear

Be wary of dichotomies of life 🙂

Guys, Bangalore meetup on the 17th? You guys in?

Going to hometown that weekend.

Your results are in! 🎉

🚨Hey folks, wanted to share a DIY work table project by my friend@thankful-cartoon-77359 🙌

If you show some interest (and more importantly some love), he might be willing to share more details about this interesting project 🙂

I built a recumbent exercise bike.

to be able to continue shitposting working on my laptop

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the front-legs actually swivel so it's not hard to get in/out of as it appears. 😄

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Now that I have clean data from slack in DB, I can do a lot of interesting things with it 🤩

Top contributors (all time)

iex(12)> SlackUtility.Analytics.get_top_contributors
[debug] QUERY OK source="client_messages" db=5.2ms
SELECT u1."name", u1."real_name", count(c0."id") FROM "client_messages" AS c0 INNER JOIN "users" AS u1 ON u1."client_id" = c0."user_id" GROUP BY u1."name", u1."real_name" ORDER BY count(c0."id") DESC LIMIT 10 []
[
  {"abhishekbose87", "Abhishek", 1016},
  {"tuxcanfly", "Javed Khan", 228},
  {"pravin.310", "Pravin Singh", 153},
  {"suhasmotwani90", "Suhas M", 93},
  {"devagul93", "Devansh Gulhane", 63},
  {"phanimahesh", "Phani Mahesh", 52},
  {"mail", "Divyendu Singh", 48},
  {"rusrushal13", "Rushal Verma", 39},
  {"prank7", "Prashant Abhishek", 39},
  {"arpit", "Arpit Choudhury", 35}
]

Top contributors (last 10 days)

iex(18)> SlackUtility.Analytics.get_top_contributors
[debug] QUERY OK source="client_messages" db=4.1ms
SELECT u1."name", u1."real_name", count(c0."id") FROM "client_messages" AS c0 INNER JOIN "users" AS u1 ON u1."client_id" = c0."user_id" WHERE (c0."created_at" >= $1) GROUP BY u1."name", u1."real_name" ORDER BY count(c0."id") DESC LIMIT 10 [{2019, 2, 26}]
[
  {"abhishekbose87", "Abhishek", 83},
  {"rusrushal13", "Rushal Verma", 15},
  {"phanimahesh", "Phani Mahesh", 13},
  {"pravin.310", "Pravin Singh", 12},
  {"bsaaravind", "Aravind Balla", 9},
  {"sbanskota08", "Sarup Banskota", 8},
  {"ankitankit_arora", "Ankit Arora", 7},
  {"himvais", "Himanshu Vaishnav", 7},
  {"<http://nilesh.tr|nilesh.tr>", "anon", 5},
  {"souvikhaldar32", "Souvik Haldar", 5}
]

Top 10 posts this week

--- 🤔 What would you do if I released a GRAPHQL API for this data ?? ( not that I am planning to do it right now 😅 )