A Storytelling Coach More details here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravishankar-iyer/
Welcome to the third edition of 3-2-1 by Story Rules - a newsletter recommending:
Each content element will have a one-line summary from me indicating why it is worth a read/listen.
Let's dive in.
Questioning someone's sense of certainty can be tough for their self-esteem!
I'm not a pets person, but uff, this ad will bring a lump to your throat... especially with that lovely twist in the tail.
Meetings ^ βΎοΈ.
βa. R Ashwin on Pujara (Cricinfo, as told to Sidharth Monga)
In his lovely tribute to Cheteshwar Pujara, the articulate Ashwin entertains with his narration of specific incidents and the distilling of Pujara's safety-first cricketing approach into these funny stand-up-comic-like takes:
βb. Disinflation by Prof. Scott Gallowayβ
A rapid economic history of the past 3 years in Prof G's inimitable style. Among others, this chart was eye-opening:
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βa. ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web by Ted Chiangβ
A fascinating point of view on ChatGPT - about how it is not meant to be do original thinking, but just provide a grammatically-accurate and superficially clever regurgitation of material it picks from the web.
In response to the thought that authors, writers, creators etc can use ChatGPT to build a first draft and then work on it, I loved this point of view of the writer:
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βRavi
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