Gatherings & Relationships
by Jason Shen · updated 1mo ago
Gatherings & Relationships
from Tweet by Jason Shen · The Outlier Coach
Jason Shen added 1mo ago
Love these questions from
@DrBradKlontz about our ingrained money scripts. Money misalignment can be a huge source of cofounder conflict if not resolved.
- it was my daughter’s love that freed me from my delusions of grandeur. It liberated me from the tyranny of trying to prove myself. Since her birth, I feel calmer and more secure. I have a sense of security I haven’t felt since I was a young child, living with parents who unconditionally loved me. Now, I care less about what other people think of me... See more
Jason Shen added 6mo ago
Meaning & satisfaction is often found in doing doing what is needed
Jason Shen added 6mo ago
We need big brains to manage all the models
- Anton Chekhov once observed that the worst thing life can do to human beings is to inflict humiliation. Nothing, nothing, nothing in the world can destroy the soul as much as outright humiliation. Every other infliction can eventually be withstood or overcome, but not humiliation. Humiliation lingers in the mind, the heart, the veins, the arteries ... See more
Jason Shen added 6mo ago
- Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one.’”—C. S. Lewis
Jason Shen added 6mo ago
- To build a successful startup, you need to build a cult To build a cult, you need shibboleths That’s why deranged slack emojis and esoteric inside jokes are so crucial to company culture In all seriousness - if you don’t have insane inside jokes, your culture is dying
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- if you want a relationship to last a long time, somehow you have to keep the scar tissue from building up. And that's really hard. So, when there's an issue, you somehow have to resolve it where there is zero lingering animosity. Nobody is even a little bit upset. Because even a little upset, that scar tissue that accumulates, that never goes away
from Talk Given by John Ousterhout About Sustaining Relationships
Jason Shen added 6mo ago
You have to clear out any lingering resentment if you want something to last
