HeyJaredThe Storytelling Edge
The best damn business storytelling newsletter. By Joe Lazer, best-selling author of The Storytelling Edge and CMO at Pepper. My new book, Super Skill: Why Storytelling Is the Superpower of the AI Age, is available for pre-order!
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It’s Q4, Motherf— (opens the original)
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Happy Thursday Storytellers, Greetings from Vancouver! Yesterday, I delivered a keynote talk on the power of storytelling in the AI Age to a group of the top roboticists and physical AI researchers in the country in San Francisco. Today, I’m in Canada on a top-secret content mission. My body, at this point, is 90% beef jerky and airline pretzels. As I landed yesterday, I got a flurry of texts from friends and ex-coworkers, telling me they love something I wrote 8 years ago. This happens every ye
Want to Write Every Day? Steal This Simple System (opens the original)
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Happy Thursday Storytellers, Greetings from the plane back from Chicago, where I just opened the Insights Association Corporate Research Conference with a workshop on the Science of Breakthrough Storytelling in the AI Age. Here’s a terribly lit selfie I took as the 200 researchers behind me divided into groups to craft their storytelling strategy. I love doing sessions like this, so if you’d like me to come speak to your customers or team about the science of storytelling, shoot me a note at spe
Exclusive workshop invite: The New Rules of Content (opens the original)
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Happy Tuesday Storytellers!I’m excited to announce September’s workshop for paid subscribers: The New Rules of Content. The past 18 months have delivered a tornado of change to the content world: Search is dying, followers are irrelevant, and AI is filling our feeds with so much slop that even LinkedIn is fighting back. It’s disorienting and anxiety-inducing; every marketer and creator I know is in the middle of a low-grade panic attack. But all of these changes also bring opportunity. In this w
The Real Reason People Confuse the Em-dash with AI Writing (opens the original)
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Happy Thursday Storytellers, Two quick announcements before we get to this week’s newsletter:1) I’ll be sending out the invite for this month’s content strategy workshop for paid subscribers tomorrow, so stay on the lookout. We had a great turnout and even better feedback last month, so I’m excited to keep these going. Even if I accidentally included a slide of You’ve Got Mail when I meant to reference When Harry Met Sally. <a c
The AI Writing Vibe Shift (opens the original)
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Happy Thursday Storytellers, Hello from Long Beach, NY, where I’m soaking up every last bit of summer with my little man Max.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1093" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!
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