Stoa Digest #08: IRL >> URL
We reckon this title implies what needs to be understood, pretty well. Correct us if we're wrong.
Highlight of the Week
We had three city meet-ups this week!! THREE!!!
Pune, Coimbatore and Delhi!!!
Gotta say, we weren’t expecting it to happen so quick, but the orchestrators for each city deserve all your love for symphonising this meet-up.
Also, you now owe them to organise the next one.
When’s it going to be?
Here’s the photos for you if you’ve found it too tedious to scroll to the #meetups channel to see.
Sidenote: we hope you liked the irl people you met!!
Let’s Rewind: Last Week at Stoa 📆
We had Tooling Workshops run simultaneously for both CH2 & CH3.
One for Figma, and the other for Notion, and it seems like they both went rather well.
If we’re lucky, maybe CH3 will show us what they built with Notion in the comments, or we’ll just go another week with 0 comments on the Digest.
And then we had Kaushik Mukherjee, Chief Operating Officer of Sugar Cosmetics come talk to us about building a $100M brand.
You can find the recording, that is EXTREMELY worth a watch, here.
Announcements 📢
Tonight by the time you’ve received this, we’re going to archive all our #Learn channels, and move them to our Circle space.
For other cool details, you can go read our nice e-mail that’s probably lying lonesome & desolate in your inboxes!
Also, this Friday we’re holding a Public Event on leveraging “Twitter for Professionals” - it’s none other than our very own Twitter Pro Raj facilitating it, so you can bet that there’ll be some big gems to steal away from it.
If you know of friends, colleagues or family who should be on Twitter, but aren’t and don’t know how to start, this might be a great point to start.
🗣 Spread the word. 🗣
Glow Ups ✨
🥳 Sidharth Khanna of Cohort 2 has nabbed a job at 10club!! 🥳
🥳 Ishaan Kohli(CH3), found out one of the jobs he wanted to apply to, was at a company run by a fellow 😆, and got the job!! Welcome to the Enthucutlet Gang, Ishaan!! 🥳
🥳 Ishan Vyas(CH2) is at a place super, super close to our hearts - ask him for more! 😉 🥳
Birthday Parttaaayy! 🥳 🎂
We made a big mistake in last week’s Digest and forgot to mention Mathew Kurian & Mridul Sharma’s birthdays in it, which were over the weekend on Sat. & Sun. respectively.
We hope you guys got to take advantage of our first Free Weekend & celebrate your birthdays with friends & lots of fun!!
Please wish Mira Mishra - TODAYY!!
Aravind Gogineni, Nikhil Tandon & Mrunmayi Parchure all on Friday, 6th August
Community Buzz 🐝
Shonik’s operating an underground Meditation Club( someone give us a cool name for this? ShonZen?) - so if you’d like entry to it, feel free to DM him on Discord!
Srinidy’s new episode for The Prodcast, with Tanvi on it, released a new episode this Wednesday, find them talking about Memes as a Service(MaaS) here
Vignesh & his friends run a volunteer group of guided meditators
Prithvi used the Notion workshop to it’s full potential and built out a Negotiation Canvas that you can use yourself too. Find it here.
Fellows Rocket🚀Shipping🚢 Content
🔗 On Linked In
🐦 Tweeple
✍🏼 Bloggers
Ujwal’s written a pretty good starter to insurance, that you can find here
Just in case you don’t already know, Pranav has an inkling for Music & Tech. He writes about an intersection of them both here
For Stoans by Stoans ✍🏼📚⏯
Watchtime 🎥
Movie buff and a fan of the people who make them? Check this out.
Math Geeks, this one’s for ya!
Blogs & Resources 🤓
Anthony Bourdain fans? The legend has now been made a documentary about. This’ only an article though!
Weekend Binges 🍿🥤
Sugarman - more than just an apt song for our event this week.
Meme Wars 🥲
This week’s shiny new winner of Best Meme goes to …………
🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
Mustafa Lokhandwala. Nobody compared even closely to him.
To end, we’ll leave you with this:
I hope everyone enjoyed their Free Weekend, now we’re back to