aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Major cheat code in life: Stop giving people unlimited chances to show you who they are. First impression? Could be wrong. Pattern of behavior? That's their character. Three examples is enough data. Believe them. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 22/03/2026A major cheat code in life: Become the person who can celebrate small wins without minimizing them. You don't need permission to be proud. Progress isn't linear. Every step forward counts. Acknowledge your wins before chasing the next one. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Underrated life advice: Stop treating your weekend like recovery time from your week. If you need every weekend to recover from work, your life is unsustainable. Fix the week. Don't just survive until Friday. 010
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Your life gets easier when you accept that some people peaked in high school and never got over it. They're still living in their glory days. Let them. You're living in present day. That's your advantage. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Major cheat code in life: Learn to identify when someone is trauma bonding with you. Shared pain isn't the same as genuine connection. Mutual suffering doesn't equal compatibility. Heal yourself first. Connect from health, not wounds. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 18/03/2026The calmest people I know have learned to exist without needing to be right. They can lose arguments and keep their peace. Being right is expensive. Being peaceful is priceless. They choose peace. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Career truth that matters: "Your coworkers aren't your friends until they are. Don't confuse workplace proximity with actual friendship. Real friends exist outside work context. Everyone else is circumstantial." 010
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Major cheat code for life: Stop letting your past define your present. What happened five years ago doesn't have to determine what happens next. You're not who you were. Honor the growth. Release the story. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 15/03/2026The most successful people I know have learned to treat failure as tuition, not punishment. Every mistake is a payment toward education. The more you fail, the smarter you get. Failure isn't the opposite of success. It's the price of it. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 14/03/2026One of life's most valuable skills: Knowing how to comfort someone without trying to solve their problem. Sometimes people need presence, not solutions. Sit with them. Listen. Don't fix. Support isn't always about answers. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Major cheat code in life: Stop using "I'm too busy" as a flex. Busy means you haven't learned to say no. Busy means you're overcommitted. Busy means your priorities are unclear. Being overwhelmed isn't impressive. It's poor boundary management. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 12/03/2026A major cheat code in life: Master the art of strategic incompetence. Some tasks you don't want to be good at. Be bad at them and watch them get reassigned. Not everything needs your excellence. Some things need your exit. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Underrated life advice: Stop preparing for worst-case scenarios that have a 1% chance of happening. You're spending 99% of your energy on 1% probability. That's not preparedness. That's anxiety pretending to be prudence. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Your relationships improve when you stop trying to fix people who aren't asking for help. Unsolicited advice is just criticism wearing a helpful mask. Wait until they ask. Or save your wisdom for people who want it. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 09/03/2026This is literally everything you need to know about agent distribution: 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Major cheat code in life: Learn to spot when someone is treating your kindness like weakness. They take advantage. They push limits. They assume you won't push back. Show them once that kind doesn't mean soft. They'll adjust. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 08/03/2026The strongest people I know don't avoid pain. They just choose their pain. Pain of discipline or pain of regret. Pain of growth or pain of stagnation. Pain of confrontation or pain of resentment. Pick your hard. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Early career lesson: "Never make someone's problem your emergency unless you're getting paid for it. Especially true with bosses who confuse poor planning with actual urgency. Their lack of foresight isn't your burden to carry unpaid." 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Major cheat code for life: Stop treating feedback from haters like it has equal weight to feedback from mentors. Consider the source. Someone who's never built anything has no credibility criticizing yours. Filter ruthlessly. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 05/03/2026The happiest people I know stopped chasing the moving target of "enough." Enough money. Enough success. Enough recognition. The goalpost keeps moving. They defined their enough and stopped running. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 04/03/2026One of life's rarest combinations: Someone who's ambitious but not anxious. Driven but not desperate. Focused but not frantic. That calm determination is magnetic. Goals without panic is mastery. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Major cheat code in life: Stop defending your choices to people who wouldn't support you even if you explained perfectly. They're not confused. They disapprove. Your explanation won't change that. Save your energy. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 02/03/2026A major cheat code in life: Understand that how people make you feel is more honest than what they say. Words lie. Energy doesn't. Trust the feeling over the statement. Your gut knows what your brain tries to rationalize. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Underrated life advice: Stop trying to reason with someone who's operating from emotion. Logic doesn't work on feelings. Wait for them to calm down. Then talk. Or don't talk at all. But arguing with emotion is losing before you start. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Your life improves when you stop broadcasting your plans before they're solidified. Tell people after you've done it. Not before. Premature sharing kills momentum. Protect your ideas. Guard your ambitions. Share results, not intentions. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Major cheat code in life: Learn to recognize when someone is keeping score in a game you didn't know you were playing. They're competing while you're just existing. Don't let their scorecard become your prison. Opt out. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 26/02/2026The most grounded people I know have accepted that success doesn't eliminate problems. It just trades small problems for bigger ones. Different level, different devil. Money doesn't solve everything. Neither does status. Neither does achievement. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Career advice nobody gives: "Make yourself easy to work with. Talent gets you hired. Being pleasant to work with gets you promoted. Technical skill is table stakes. Emotional intelligence is the differentiator." 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Major cheat code for life: Stop asking for advice from people who haven't done what you're trying to do. Theory isn't experience. Opinion isn't expertise. Listen to people with scars from the battles you're about to fight. Everyone else is guessing. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 23/02/2026The wisest people I know treat their beliefs like hypotheses, not identities. Open to being wrong. Willing to update. Comfortable with uncertainty. Ego doesn't defend what evidence contradicts. That flexibility is wisdom. 010
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 22/02/2026One of life's most powerful realizations: You don't have to attend every argument you're invited to. Someone wants to fight? Decline. Someone wants to debate? Pass. Not every invitation requires acceptance. Peace over proving points. 010
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Major cheat code in life: Stop letting people use "I'm just being honest" as permission to be cruel. Honesty without tact is just weaponized truth. You can be direct without being destructive. They're choosing cruelty and hiding behind honesty. 010
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 21/02/2026The best thing I've done for my writing: stop being loyal to the first way I said something. The rewrite IS the writing. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 20/02/2026A major cheat code in life: Become the person who ends conversations when they stop being productive. Circular arguments? Exit. Repetitive complaints? Leave. Unproductive venting? Walk. Your time is too valuable for conversational dead ends. 010
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Want a pro version of each? ↳ Grab my bundle: bundle.aakashg.com/ What would you add to the list? 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Customer Intelligence Dovetail, Unwrap, Enterpret, Monterey, or Viable Go from unstructured data to usable inputs My guide: www.news.aakashg.com/p/ai-custom...news.aakashg.comAI Customer Intelligence: The Complete Guide for Product TeamsHow to analyze 10,000+ feedback points per week and ship features customers actually pay for 100
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 20/02/2026DISCOVERY User Research NotebookLM, Perplexity, Elicit, Consensus, or Grain Use AI at every step to make it faster My guide: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzA...youtube.comThis AI Expert's Method Will Change How You Do Customer ResearchAI for user research is unreliable. But Caitlin Sullivan, one of the world's leading experts in user research, knows exactly how to fix it. In this episode, ... 100
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Full-Featured Agents n8n, make, Activepieces, Workato, or Tray Graduate here when simple feels limiting My guide: www.news.aakashg.com/p/ai-agents...news.aakashg.comAI Agents: The Ultimate Guide for PMsDitching all the hype to help you go from 0 to 1 100
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 20/02/2026AUTOMATION Simple Agents Zapier, Lindy, Relay, Bardeen, or Parabola Start here if you've never automated a workflow My guide: www.news.aakashg.com/p/practical...news.aakashg.comPractical AI Agents for PMs: Tool GuideHere's my brutally honest take on the top AI agents PMs should be building and using - and the top tool for each 110
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 20/02/2026General LLMs Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Kimi, or Grok Find your favorites and master prompt engineering My guide: www.news.aakashg.com/p/prompt-en...news.aakashg.comPrompt Engineering in 2025: The Latest Best PracticesYou've seen a million guides on prompts, here's the guide you actually need to build great products right NOW 100
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Meetings Granola, Fathom, Otter.ai, tl;dv, or Fireflies Never take manual meeting notes again My guide: www.news.aakashg.com/p/ai-stack-pmnews.aakashg.comHere's my recommended AI tool stack for PMsFrom prompting and co-pilots to agents, prototyping, discovery, and vibe experimentation, here's exactly how I think you should be using AI as a PM. Tool recommendations included. 100
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 20/02/2026PRODUCTIVITY Dictation Wispr Flow, superwhisper, Tactiq, Speechify You talk 2x faster than you type. Use that My guide: www.news.aakashg.com/p/speechify...news.aakashg.comYou Should be using Voice AI - so I've added Speechify to Aakash's bundleA free year of Speechify Premium ($29/mo) is now part of Aakash's Bundle 100
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Prototyping Lovable, Bolt, v0, Magic Patterns, or Base44 A prototype is a key pair to the PRD these days My guide: www.news.aakashg.com/p/ai-protot...news.aakashg.comUltimate Guide to AI Prototyping Tools (Lovable, Bolt, Replit, v0)Here's what you need to know to use these tools in a forward-thinking product development process 110
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 20/02/2026BUILDING Vibe Coding Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, Replit, or Warp You want to be able to build your own operating system My guide: www.news.aakashg.com/p/pm-osnews.aakashg.comI spent 100s of hours building a PM OS for youClaude code is the best AI tool I have used. Here's 6 months of learning condensed into one PM operating system 100
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 20/02/2026This is tool stack of the best AI PMs I've talked to: (You just need one in each category) 100
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Underrated life advice: Stop treating every decision like it's final. Most things are reversible. Most paths have exits. Most choices can be unmade. The weight you're feeling isn't the decision. It's your belief that it's permanent. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Your relationships change when you stop accepting excuses for repeated behavior. Once is a mistake. Twice is a choice. Three times is who they are. Stop letting people explain away their patterns. Believe their actions. 010
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Major cheat code in life: Learn to identify when you're the backup plan. They keep you around in case nothing better materializes. You're not the choice. You're the safety net. Know your worth. Walk away. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 16/02/2026The calmest people I know have stopped trying to control outcomes they can't control. They do their best. Release the rest. Attachment to specific results is attachment to suffering. Control the input. Accept the output. 000
aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Early lesson that proved true: "Watch how people treat animals and children. That's their unfiltered character. Adults get performance. Kids and animals get truth. The way someone speaks to a dog tells you everything." 000
