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Welcome to the thirteenth edition of '3-2-1 by Story Rules'.
A newsletter recommending good examples of storytelling across:
Each would be accompanied by my short summary/take and sometimes with an insightful extract.
Let's dive in.
I loved this visualisation of patents filed by city. China's dominance took me by surprise. Check out the full image here.
A long one, but good story about the power of messaging, simple visuals (while eschewing text) and preparation for presentations.
Strategy: You need to know what you are saying no to. And you need to write it down.
An interesting contrarian point of view on India's economic prospects.
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βb. Excuse me, is there a problem? by Jason Cohenβ
Entrepreneur and investor Jason Cohen has done a neat job in this long form essay - of the various hurdles that an idea has to cross before it can become a successful start-up. I found this flowchart useful:
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βa. A Treat for the Die Hards (Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell) β
Storytellers obsess about how to begin their stories. In this episode Malcolm Gladwell along with the comedian Mike Birbiglia discuss how to end one. The highlight of the episode for me was has a portion which features a stunningly good ending from one of Mike's stand-up comedy shows.
That's all from this week's edition.
βRavi
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