Jason Shen
@jasonshen
Exec coach helping founders and creative leaders rebound and reinvent so they do more of what matters most.
Jason Shen
Not everyone comes out guns blazing
Your ads are saying, “look, I’m don’t have Porsche’s speed or Chevrolet’s muscles. I’m not as sexy as Mercedes-Benz and I’m not as classy as Cadillac. I’ll never be as patriotic as Ford because I’m German to the core. I know what I am…and I’m proud of it. I’m not made to be shown off, I’m made to be functional: my purpose is to get you from point A... See more
Embrace your weaknesses
twelve years a slave, from his birth, in Dallas County, Alabama, in 1853 or so, until Union cavalry swept through the cotton plantation where he was owned, in 1865. Sixty-four years later, in 1939, homeless on the streets of Montgomery, he became an extraordinary artist, making magnetically beautiful, dramatic, and utterly original drawings on... See more
The Utterly Original Bill Traylor
Outlier Exemplars and Creativity
Bill Traylor, the ultimate late bloomer
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... See more
Startup Archivex.comMarc earns founders against being too early versus too late
Research shows that intuition originates in the nonverbal regions of our brain, particularly the basal ganglia and anterior cingulate cortex. These regions process patterns outside of our conscious awareness.
When we try to put intuitive insights into words, we often end up with rationalization rather than explanation. The verbal parts of our brain,... See more
When we try to put intuitive insights into words, we often end up with rationalization rather than explanation. The verbal parts of our brain,... See more
George Sudarkoff • Stop Analyzing Your Gut Feelings: A Counter-intuitive Guide to Better Leadership
Intuition is effective because it isn’t being forced into words
You know crossing spears as a guard felt gooood
Are you familiar with the midwit meme? So, it’s this bell curve with a guy who doesn’t think very much, then someone who has average intelligence but thinks it’s superior, and then the guy who’s kind of transcended everything and is very intelligent and actually thinks in the same way as the guy who doesn’t think very much. So for me, I think I
... See moreMichelle Huang • "AI for wonder": An interview with Michelle Huang, artist
The untold story of what fuels Michael Jordan's legendary fire
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"We had field days in elementary school where in May you'd go out and have a 100-yard dash," he says. "Even then, Mike, he hated losing. Some of the memories I have on activity buses going to football, basketball, baseball games. There was many times we'd have a game of cards on the activity bus. And we'd get to the school we were playing, and Mike hadn't been winning the last few hands? He wouldn't let anybody get off the bus."
One small thing I try to do out of respect to artists is never use individual artists as part of my prompts, e.g. "painting of a couple in a warm embrace in the style of Artist Name" which is often used by people looking to achieve a specific "effect".
This may be a controversial take, but I'd rather look for ways to compensate or support people of
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