December 3, 2024: To Become A Master Storyteller

“If you wish to be a writer, write.”

― Epictetus

Hi friends,

How's everything going?
This is Kei and Kazuki, founders of Glasp 👋

We hand-picked 3 good content for you to highlight this week. Hope they'll help you get new ideas and perspectives.

📚 3 Good Recommendations

Build Personal Moats
by Erik Torenberg (5 mins)

• Personal Moat: A personal moat is a unique, durable, and compounding competitive advantage that sets you apart in your career. It should leverage your rare skills, unique talents, and interests, making it hard for others to replicate and ensuring long-term value.
• Building Moats: Develop expertise in areas that are difficult to master and strategically position yourself in future growth fields. Focus on combining exclusive relationships, unique knowledge, and specialized skills to create an enduring edge while avoiding easily commoditized or fleeting advantages.
• Key Strategies: Find what’s easy for you but challenging for others, integrate multiple complementary skills, and build enduring assets like podcasts or newsletters that grow social and career capital passively. Adapt as conditions change and continually refine your moat to maintain its relevance and strength.

Grateful for the grind—these 10 lessons shaped the entrepreneur I am today on X
by The Boring Marketer (1 mins)

• Focus on essentials and leverage existing strengths: Prioritize cash flow management for business stability, identify validated markets and distribution channels early, and use existing frameworks instead of starting from scratch.
• Build strategically for growth: Assemble a complementary team, start with a service to refine your value proposition before investing in technology, and target B2B sales for stable revenue streams.
• Act quickly and differentiate: Move fast to build momentum, align your business with personal passions, and create a unique brand angle to stand out in competitive markets.

To Become A Master Storyteller on YouTube
by Kallaway (11 mins)

• Storytelling Techniques: The video outlines six storytelling techniques to enhance the content, emphasizing the importance of a dynamic “dance” between context and conflict, keeping viewers engaged through open loops.
• Variety and Tone: Effective storytelling requires a mix of sentence lengths for rhythm, creating a musical quality in writing and a conversational tone that breaks down barriers and makes the content feel more personal and engaging.
• Unique Angles and Hooks: To capture attention, storytellers should use distinctive lenses on common topics to set their narratives apart and ensure that hooks—both verbal and visual—are direct and compelling, immediately indicating the plot and visually captivating the audience.

📣 Community

• 🟦 Save YouTube Summary on My Highlights:
  We added a new feature to save a summary of YouTube on Glasp. When you summarize the video with Glasp, it’s automatically saved on Glasp (It’s privately saved, no others can see it). Visit the YouTube tutorial to see how it works 👀

• 🟨 Chat with Your Highlights:
  Did you know you can “chat with your highlights” on Glasp? It’s super simple!
  After importing highlights from Pocket, Instapaper, Medium, etc, then you can start chatting with your highlights! Visit this tutorial for detailed instructions!
• 🟩 Personalized Recommendations in Your “For You” Feed:
  We recently implemented a basic recommendation feature for the “For You” feed! Now, based on your highlights, we curate content tailored to your interests. Open the Glasp Home feed and head to the “For You” tab to discover great content you'll love!

• 🟥 Glasp Talk with Zowie Langdon:
  Glasp Talk features intimate interviews with luminaries, revealing their emotions, experiences, and stories. The guest, Zowie Langdon, is a technical founder, podcast host, and systems thinker passionate about understanding and impacting the world through technology and personal growth.

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👀 Featured Curator on Glasp

João Raposo
He learns product management, leadership, agile coaching, and more! Let’s follow him and learn together 🤝

Please mention @Glasp and share your profile page on X to get featured!

❤️ Gratitude

We found some people who mentioned Glasp in their articles and blogs, and we appreciate all the kindness!

• Japan-Korea Startup Founder’s Day Event on Consulates General of Japan in San Francisco
• Del caos al orden: guía para convertir la información en conocimiento (From chaos to order: a guide to turning information into knowledge) on eduHacking

Thank you for sharing and mentioning us on X, LinkedIn, and/or in your blogs 🙂 We appreciate your support! Please feel free to ask us anything at any time! Also, feel free to join our Slack community ;)

Hope you enjoyed reading this newsletter!
See you next week ;)

Best,
Kei and Kazuki

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