Jason Shen
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Exec coach helping founders and creative leaders rebound and reinvent so they do more of what matters most.
Jason Shen
- To be effective, we must act decisively on decisions we disagree with. This may seem obvious, but it remains one of the most challenging tasks.
from Decisiveness is Just as Important as Deliberation by Cedric Chin
It is often better to be aligned in any direction than not at all
- Key features of the 2.0 release
- New text-to-image diffusion models using a brand new text encoder (OpenCLIP). Result: improved image quality, although not everyone likes the style.
- Super-resolution upscaler diffusion models which enhance the resolution of images by a factor of 4.
- Depth-to-image diffusion model which infers the de
from Lore AI Newsletter #7: Stable Diffusion 2.0 by Lore.com
- In fact, people with extreme traits can often structure their lives in such a way that they can trade on the ways they’re exceptional, leaving no persistent reason to address some particular deficit they have. And, generally, people are savvy enough to hide their dysfunction. People will disappoint you, eventually.
from Some Advice Gathered from People Smarter than Me by Sasha Chapin
people hide weaknesses
- one of the most interesting pieces of information we found through our analysis is that Great Funds know how to concentrate capital exceptionally well.
Great Funds invested 38.7% of their capital in 23.1% of their investments, which generated over 5X+. 23.9% of that capital went into their 10X+ investments.
Good Funds on the other hand invested 18.... See morefrom Big Winners and Bold Concentration: Unveiling the Secret Portfolio Returns of Leading Venture Funds by Jason Shuman
Knowing where to double down is critical to outsized success
- This locks toy companies into a challenging bet. Every year, they have to a) predict trends, b) invent them, and c) commit capital to them. All without knowing how the rest of the year will turn out. Since toy trends exist, but don’t last for very long, they have to invent new products every year—but the technological state of the art doesn’t advan... See more
from The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack by Byrne Hobart
Toy makers have to think like publishers or VCs
- 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
Gatherings & Relationships and be goddamn yourself
The only way to connect with people on a deep level is to exposure yourself vulnerable.
- The argument is that accountings of history are not accurate, and can never be accurate, thanks to the narrative fallacy . By its nature, narrative necessarily compresses reality into some coherent tale, meaning that accountings of history tend to overemphasise intention and action, instead of the more plausible ‘random actions by actors in a compl
from Link
Read history for examples of concepts, not direct lessons
- It started when both were in London one day and decided to get together and produce some music. On that day, one of the songs they made was “I’m Good (Blue)”. However, at the end of the day, they decided that nothing they made that day was worth releasing. It was a solid music production session but nothing really moved the needle.
Fast forward a f... See moreI’m Good (Blue) went viral on TikTok and became Bebe Rhexa and David Guetta’s most streamed song, despite not being deemed worthy by either.
- 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 foun... See more
from The Utterly Original Bill Traylor
Outlier Exemplars and Creativity
Bill Traylor, the ultimate late bloomer