Jason Shen
@jasonshen
Exec coach helping founders and creative leaders rebound and reinvent so they do more of what matters most.
Jason Shen
- I took off all of 2023. Focused on health, family, travel… yada yada yada it was great. But during that time my brain atrophied, my work ethic diminished, and it got harder to focus. Despite a deep desire to build again, I've found that getting back to a grindset has been hard... It’s slowly getting better now, and I wanted to share some reflectio... See more
Former Shopify VP on getting back to peak performance
Chasing scale seems to be a kind of early life affliction. The more you chase it, the bigger the thing you chase gets. Perhaps it’s a natural desire to see how important we can be or at least how important our creations can be to the world (and hence how important we can be by proxy …). A desire to take on a seemingly insurmountable challenge, perhaps a noble one (though not always), and see if we can conquer it.
Work on stuff you love so much you’d do it 100 times without a huge result and still want to keep going (eg MKBHD) https://t.co/qpKHNwRlHzMKBHD did 100 videos and had only 74 subs
Marc Andreessen explains why the “curse of the entrepreneur” is being too early “My experience is the great founders almost always feel like they’re too late, and you’re almost always too early.” The reason is because the idea seems obvious to the founder: “You’ve got some idea in your head, and as far as you’re concerned, the world should alrea... See moreMarc earns founders against being too early versus too late
How Mayweather turned his brittle hands into a boxing wins and big payouts (TikTok creator xeviuniverse) https://t.co/UVlzu6xIuvFloyd Mayweather turned his brittle hands into an advantage by goading people into fighting with him and winning on points
The iterative process of recording a great track — patience, good ear, encouragement