Thought Triggers Weekly | Edition #2

Netflix recently launched a docuseries - "How to become a tyrant?" - on six Dictators through the 20th century. It shows how they become a dictator and their playbook for staying in power with sublime narration by Peter Dinklage using a large dose of dark humour. Episode four focuses on Joseph Stalin and his suppression of truth titled "Control the Truth" and he did so, as did the others, to control thought.

So it's week two, and this week I share three stories on the power of words, the importance of staying curious and why this exercise of me documenting is possibly my own experiment on myself & the power of thought :) :

#1 CB Insights nears one million email subscribers

Axios

Newsletters are a thing like podcasts but who can resist the CB Insights newsletter, which mixes humor with B2B tech and investing insights - at least, I can't. The story provides the TLDR version of why it matters and how the company is using its different platforms to successfully market its products and services while building a successful subscriber base for its newsletter. But it requires effort, which cofounder and CEO Anand Sanwal lays out:

The company has a dedicated team of analysts and writers that help to drive its media content across newsletters and social media.

For an alternative view, also read the sound of the inbox.

#2 The link between self-reliance and well-being

The Atlantic

This story outlines how individualism is about having the freedom to be who you are - not going it alone. Huh! Yes, it makes you think and also provides studies which visit what most of us are now aware of that certain countries focus more on individualism than others (like us in Asia). In fact, the writer outlines the need for a beautiful mind that can think:

Second, do think for yourself. In a world that is moved by ideas, there is arguably no greater force for progress than intellectual nonconformism. We have no other way to solve previously unsolvable problems, and the adventure of doing so is boundless.

#3 Jordan Peterson on the power of writing

Youtube

Skip the first 45 seconds, and it's so good!

If you can think, and speak, and write - you're absolutely deadly!!

Couldn't have said it better. Just give it a listen if you haven't already.

Monday Motivator

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."?– Ralph Waldo Emerson,?Self-Reliance.