Best Twitter Threads We Saw In 2018

20 Best Tech Twitter Threads In 2018

And all of these are a must read😃This tweet inspired this blog post. CC: Shane Parrish

Twitter is an amazing place.

In fact, it is perhaps the greatest tool out there to build brand, communities, companies, networks and trolls.

It won’t be wrong to say that,

Twitter is a meta-mind.

Infact, my biggest Twitter Fantasy(😜) is this tweet by Arjun Balaji coming true.

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The year is 2055: the world is run by small groups of friends, who all met on Twitter 40y ago and collectively learned how to leverage the global intelligence machine.

 — @arjunblj

With no more bullshit from me, here we go ahead with a list of best Twitter Threads of 2018:-

1. How To Get Rich(without getting lucky) by Naval Ravikant

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How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):

 — @naval

2. Upcoming Mainstream Fields/Sectors/Skill-sets Who Look Dumb Now by Erik Torenberg

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What fields/sectors/skill-sets look dumb or weird right now, but in a few years may look mainstream or much bigger than they are currently? Examples: playing video games competitively, cannabis, or bitcoin in 2012.

 — @eriktorenberg

3. On Vertically Integrated Technology Companies by James Wang

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1/ Most tech companies are horizontal platform companies, but a few exceptions stand out-Apple, Tesla and Netflix are all vertically integrated.

 — @jwangARK

4. Erik Torenberg on Career Loops

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1/ In the literature of growth & marketing, there is this concept called "loops" I'm curious to explore "loops" in the context of how people make career decisions and think about how to build career capital over time.

 — @eriktorenberg

5. Ameen Soleimani on Religion

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Religion is a virus. If you believe in any religion, I consider you insane and an enemy of rational thought. God/Buddha/Jesus/Allah/etc... don't *actually* exist, just shared narratives -- soon they will be myths just like the Greek Pantheon. https://t.co/g5dN1iB64s

 — @ameensol

6. Untaught truths of Adulthood by Alexander J.A Cortes

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Untaught truths of Adulthood -Everything you do matters -consequences have consequences -life never gets simpler -rarely do you ever figure anything out fully -(almost) everybody is faking confidence -most people are compensating for high school

 — @AJA_Cortes

7. Patrick O'Shaughnessy on How he Choose Books

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I'm often asked how I read so much and how I choose books. So, my I'll try my first tweet storm... https://t.co/AJGTn8Tofl

 — @patrick_oshag

8. A Meta-Thread of Tons of Book Summaries by Douglas Craig

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My Book Summaries Thread;

 — @Douglas9162

9. Naval Ravikant on “What is Twitter?”

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Twitter is a newsroom. Breaking news is one imagined emergency after another, from around the world, delivered to your unprepared brain.

 — @naval

10. Andrew Chen on Marketplace Startups

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The current generation of marketplace startups has been incredibly successful. Airbnb, Lime, Uber, Lyft, Instacart, etc. I've been doing a broad survey of the best writing on this topic and wanted to share my list of 20 best links I've seen.

 — @andrewchen

11. Suhail Doshi on Acquiring First Customers for Your Startup

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1/ Getting my first 100 customers always felt like a puzzle. The next 1000 seemed unreachable. Besides, how can you get feedback to make the product better w/o users? After many years, we ended up w/ 6,000+ paying customers. It was a grind to get there.😩 Here's what I Iearned...

 — @Suhail

12. Again, Suhail Doshi on first 18 Months of a Startup

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1/ The first 18 months of starting a company is often life or death. I must've made 5 different companies that each failed within 9 mo. 😭 Each time the company failed I figured out what I could do better. Eventually startup #6 got to $40K/mo by month 18.

 — @Suhail

13. Andrew Ruiz on Peter Thiel

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It's a shame Peter Thiel keeps his most controversial ideas to himself. I've listened to about ~13 interviews-he rarely deviates from the script. He really is like a chess master, planning his moves several steps ahead.

 — @then_there_was

14. How Much Data Facebook and Google Store About You by Dylan Curran

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Want to freak yourself out? I'm gonna show just how much of your information the likes of Facebook and Google store about you without you even realising it

 — @iamdylancurran

15. David Perell on Marketing

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1/ "Marketing is the science of knowing what economists are wrong about." Here's a collection of marketing insights, mostly inspired by @rorysutherland, a marketing executive at Ogilvy & Mather. Thread!

 — @david_perell

16. Amjad Masad gives out some Reading Tips

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The advice from @patrickc on reading (from @farnamstreet podcast) has had a profound effect on my reading volume, comprehension, and generally, I'm enjoying reading a lot more than I used to. Here are some tips:

 — @amasad

17. Josh Wolfe on China vs Facebook/Google

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1/ At a recent dinner a few extraordinarily successful VCs could not see what might threaten the grip of Facebook or Google. I had a simple answer: China. How? Simple....

 — @wolfejosh

18. Mircea Macavei‏ on What Occupies Our Mental Space

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1/ Human beings rarely signal their strengths consciously; what they mostly signal is their weaknesses (usually disguised as strengths), because these occupy their conscious mental space to a far larger degree than their strengths do.

 — @mistermircea

19. Again, David Perell on How Internet Will Transform Education

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1/ / The internet will transform education. The best of what I've learned. 👇 Thread 👇

 — @david_perell

20. Yorick de Mombynes‏ thread on The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous

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Here are my favorite quotes from this amazing book. #THREAD

 — @ydemombynes

That’s it for now. I will be updating this blog post with more threads from 2018 as I come across more of them.

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