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Welcome to the thirty-sixth edition of '3-2-1 by Story Rules'. (And I'll explain the cryptic title in the last reco).
A newsletter recommending good examples of storytelling across:
Let's dive in.
Brilliant visual. So surprising to see that Australia was settled by humans much before Western Europe and UK.
This is my idea of a dinner gathering with friends.
This rings so true. Especially on Sunday evenings!
a. ‘Job of a scholar is not to become a politician’: Ramachandra Guha
Ok, call this my Ram Guha hangover, but I'm still in the grasp of his magisterial brilliance from reading 'Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World'.
In this interview, Guha talks about a new set of biographies that he's edited on remarkable Indian personalities like Emperor Ashoka, Tilak, JP Narayan and Kasturba Gandhi.
In this extract (emphasis mine), he lays out the challenge of balancing good research with clear writing:
I would definitely add Ramachandra Guha to that list!
b. 'Managing Yourself: Zoom In, Zoom Out' by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
This is an old HBR article - and was suggested to me as a good read by a participant from one of my sessions.
It talks about a crucial balance one needs to maintain in storytelling - the ability either zoom in or zoom out, depending on the audience, the data, and the context.
A useful tool in the article is a set of questions that we can ask ourselves to find if we are veering too much to one side of the balance.
These questions are for checking if you are too lost in the details:
While these ones are for checking if you have your head in the clouds, far away from ground reality!
a. Judging Sam: Michael Lewis Talks Money with Matt Levine
Sorry for the cryptic email title - but c'mon, we are talking about crypto here!
And two of my favourite storytellers are discussing it together: Michael Lewis and Matt Levine.
The topic of discussion - the much publicised trial of Sam Bankman Fried, the once crypto-poster-boy, who's now being tried for multiple counts of fraud (worth about $8B!).
It's a relatively short conversation, but it's always insightful listening to these two talk.
Give it a listen over the weekend to get a quick idea of what really was so wrong about SBF's actions.
That's all from this week's edition.
Ravi
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