Larry Smith
Creator of The Six Word Memoir Project
Larry is the creator of the Six-Word Memoir project, a bestselling book series, live events program, and popular form of storytelling in classrooms, company retreats, and anywhere people gather. He has led workshops and given keynotes at Dell, Dropbox, Shutterfly, JPMorganChase, Snapchat, and other companies and nonprofits. He is the producer and director of the play, “A Map of Myself: a One-Woman Revolution on War, Immigration, History, DNA, and Home,” by and starring 20-year-old Syrian-America Sara Abou Rashed.
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Blog
A.I. Needs a Wet Hot American Summer
When your kid goes away to summer camp, there is pressure to write them letters. It’s a delicate tightrope. You want them to know you are thinking about them but you don’t want to make them homesick. Add in Jewish guilt and it’s a lot of pressure. So when it came time for Reboot Network Member Larry Smith to write the latest letter to his son Lukas at camp, he turned to ChatGPT. The result was entertaining, although a bit rote. And he’s disappointed that ChatGTP clearly hasn’t watched the movie, Wet Hot American Summer (from a Jew, by the way). He’s decided to take back the job of Dad for the next letter. Read more here.
Blog
Cannabis and the Jews: A Love Story
Two Jews meet at a Christmas party. One of the Jews says to a group chatting in the kitchen, “Does anyone want to go out to the deck and get high?” Surprisingly, especially as this scene takes place in the Bay Area, only one person says yes. That person was Reboot Network member Larry Smith. But what developed on the deck with Melanie Abrams that night ended up being much more than just a shared high.
Smith writes in the Reboot Blog about his journey that started with Abrams from that night in collaborating on a new book, The Joy of Cannabis: 75 Ways to Amplify Your Life Through the Science & Magic of Cannabis, and the deep Jewish connections to cannabis. Read more here.
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Six-Word Memoirs on Jewish Life
With contributions from machers like Larry David, Henry Winkler, Jonathan Safran Foer, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Maira Kalman and Mayor Ed Koch, along with hundreds of never-before-published writers, Six-Word Memoirs on Jewish Life offers 360 stories of faith and family, duty and identity, celebration and tsuris that will inform, delight and inspire—six words at a time.