HeyJaredThe Strategic Linguist
Revealing how language shapes power, markets, and competitive advantage | linguistic analysis from workplace dynamics to global strategy
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How AI Gets Sold as an Obligation (opens the original)
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“This technology could change how every one of us works. Within a few years, it may be able to take on much of what your team does today. Nobody in this room can afford to wait to find out.”<div class="image2-inset"
Behind the Language: Cristina Lozano-Argüelles (opens the original)
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The Linguistics of the Sale: Why “No Pressure” Can Feel Like a Hard Sell (opens the original)
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I’ve often been told I should be in Sales and it makes me laugh. I know far too much about language to be a part of this problem.I talk a lot about how language, today, isn’t explicit. No one is rude or offensive in the words they choose to use in the workplace. Days of shouting, using expletives, with moments of explosiveness are — for the most part — not something executives and leaders can do anymore because of laws and HR policies. Those guardrails exist for what you can see and identify, bu
A Field Guide: The Exit Clause (opens the original)
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Let’s Just Chat: What Goffman Discovered About the Frame Around Every Conversation (opens the original)
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This post is about what’s actually happening underneath a phrase you’ve heard a hundred times — “let’s just chat” — and the specific ways a linguistic frame can shift under you before you’ve said a word.Why “let’s just chat” can turn a career-affecting conversation into a casual one — and why that’s a specific linguistic move, not just a change of mood.The three ways a frame can change hands: one disclosed to both people, one
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