Vala Afshar ✓
@ValaAfshar · Boston · joined 02 Mar 2011
Chief Digital Evangelist @Salesforce | Bestselling Books: BOUNDLESS 2023, AUTONOMOUS 2025 | Columnist: @ZDNet | Podcast: @DisrupTVShow
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Adoption of AI agents goes beyond scaling effort (automation), it also scales judgments (recursion) - a step function improvement of creating value at the speed of need.
task automation → role automation
Scaling effort and judgment is how you win.
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The organizations that will define the next era of business are not those that avoid the difficulties. They are those that understand it, plan for it, and have the courage, when the moment finally comes, to take their hands off the steering wheel.
https://t.co/1zSVugo4ZA https:/
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The hallmark of expertise is no longer how much you know, it is how well you synthesize.
Information scarcity rewarded knowledge acquisition. Information abundance requires pattern recognition.
The future belongs to those who connect dots. —Adam Grant
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Smart people are comfortable with not having strong opinions on topics outside of their expertise.
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The person you will be in 5 years depends on:
• books or articles you read
• how much more you write
• money you save and invest
• who you work with
• friends you spend time with
• new skills you develop
• the food you eat
• amount of exercise you do
• how much sleep
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The person who wants to learn will find a teacher.
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When someone helps you, and they are struggling too, that is not help. That is love.
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"As long as men are free to ask what they will, free to say what they think, free to think what they must, science will never regress and freedom itself will never be wholly lost."
—J. Robert Oppenheimer, ‘Father of the Atomic Bomb’ https://t.co/LrZj269vH6
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When repayment is quietly wrapped as love. https://t.co/KRkpVNlS31
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You are wealthy when you can freely decide what to do with your time.
Wealth is also:
• people who love you
• people you love
• kind, happy and giving children
• good health
• peace of mind
• restful and calm days
• work that brings you joy
• friends who help you win
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The smartest people are interested in data because they seek patterns.
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@ValaAfshar Why would they line up these little children in rain for content? This is not protection, this is exploitation, and those "good samaritans" need to be investigated.
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@ValaAfshar Dear @ValaAfshar,
Thanks for creating awareness of the struggles of African people. But we have a saying in Africa - Uganda- Baganda people: “Nga tonajja kajonjo kamuno muliso, sooka ogemu akako.” It means, before removing the dirty from someone else’s eye, first cle
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@ValaAfshar Dear lord for the universe make me a billionaire so I can feed your children 🙈😔🙏🏽
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If you want to build a ship, do not drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry https://t.co/ie1ZWsH3ii
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Some people would love to have your bad days.
Please be grateful for what you have now, and help others in need. https://t.co/cJAP68G3kg
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You are never too old to change your mind, ride a red train, learn something new, make new friends, forgive first and fall in love again. https://t.co/rzxs1ukYHh
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15 speaking lessons: MIT professor delivers a brilliant masterclass on how to effectively present your ideas with clarity, high impact and purpose https://t.co/KKfLMl8PZ6
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A very important question that we should all be asking ourselves https://t.co/qfuuYf3ujW
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Focus, by Jony Ive https://t.co/kQ6uHXJxwA
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Jack Dorsey (@jack) founder of Twitter (@X) and Square, on the 12 habits of great leaders https://t.co/7Pgo1JVbnC
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Learn to be more helpful before asking others for help.
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Distance yourself from people who have a problem with every solution.
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Do not use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think and to grow.
—Professor Richard Feynman https://t.co/lqCve6XV2m
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Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, the 'father of the atomic bomb', spoke about his optimism that science would be used to transform the world for good, 1960 https://t.co/FV7x4DRSO7
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"As long as men are free to ask what they will, free to say what they think, free to think what they must, science will never regress and freedom itself will never be wholly lost."
—J. Robert Oppenheimer https://t.co/LrZj269vH6
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I am thankful to all those who said 'No' - because of them, I did it myself.
—Albert Einstein https://t.co/OyXUzdXv1O
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Anthropic CEO: even if AI development were frozen in place today, the world is only using something like 5–10% of the value the technology could already deliver. There is enormous "diffusion" still ahead. https://t.co/1o13ddB1ml
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Against accounts of the same size
60 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.
Median views3 184this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %0.33%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.45%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 3 184 | 5 983 | 0.53× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 0.33% | 1.49% | 0.22× |
| Engagement rate | 0.45% | 0.93% | 0.48× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
2.4K21 Sep
1.5K
4.3K
3K
1.6K
1.8K
6.7K23 Sep
2.3K
2.3K
2.6K
2.4K24 Sep
2.3K
2.1K
1.5K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.82%21 Sep
2.95%
0.82%
0.36%
0.62%
0.22%
0.19%23 Sep
0.60%
0.78%
0.77%
0.29%24 Sep
0.13%
0.05%
0.13%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes70.5%11 559 in total
Reposts17.4%2 858 in total
Replies2.6%420 in total
Quotes1.0%169 in total
Bookmarks8.5%1 401 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
23 Sep
Daily snapshots since 23 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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