Ananda Newsletter: Drip emails helping self-starters overcome cognitive biases

Huge Hello, 🎉🎉🎉 I'm Tony Tong, a soon-to-graduate college student from Singapore, and this is my first ever product launch I've done on my own to prove to myself that I can ship products to help people. After working on this project for 5 months juggling a tech internship and schoolwork, I'm happy to be able to launch and move closer to my 2020 goal of generating >$5k/ month building indie products on @ProductHunt, complete internships in Bali and China/ Unites States, while graduating from @NUSingapore My vision is to help people develop greater self-awareness and clearer thinking skills through mental models. The wise businessman Charlie Munger often said: “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” How he does this is through mental models, a latticework of concepts in one’s head that exponentially improves one’s odds of success. However, the biggest obstacles to a high-performing latticework are cognitive biases, default errors in our thinking that leads us down the wrong roads. Personally witnessing entrepreneurial friends lose months (if not years), $1000s of dollars and 1000 energy bars from their blind spots, I've found it disheartening to see. Hence, I've distilled my past experiences in 5 startups, my own 6-figure marketing agency and a tech role in Silicon Valley into a 4-part email to help you avoid the mistakes many have made (many I have made myself). If you are a learning machine into mental models, systems-thinking and self-help, then this newsletter should be of service to you. Any advice is accepted with open arms! 🙌 Best Regards, Tony Tong