Jason Shen
@jasonshen
Exec coach helping founders and creative leaders rebound and reinvent so they do more of what matters most.
Jason Shen
- A recent article in The Military Times revealed that there are already autistic leaders in senior positions in the intelligence community, and how matters of national security are too important and challenging to leave only to people who see the world in typical ways. Autistic workers, for example, have been shown to detect sensitive geospatial ima... See more
There’s power in neurodiverse people if you can harness their strengths
Finding happiness is hard
I remember after GPT-3 came out, I was with my tech-obsessed friends and we were like, hey, let’s read the GPT-3 research paper together. That provoked so many interesting ideas for me. And then when I went back to my parents’ house during the holidays — this was December 2020 — I started thinking about the diaries again. And I actually tweeted abo
... See morefrom "AI for wonder": An interview with Michelle Huang, artist by Michelle Huang
- “I’m 76 years old and I have never learned a lesson in my entire life.”
from Review: Curb Your Enthusiasm, “No Lessons Learned” | Season 12, Episode 10
Larry David had a rule of “no hugging and no learning” to describe Seinfeld. Sometimes that attitude is necessary
- 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
So many villain arcs begin from humiliation
A few months ago, a high schooler sent me a 19-page slide deck on how I could improve my content. Now he runs all our social and email marketing. Here's how he landed a $150k job with me (and how you can use the same "Pre-Work Method" to create opportunities): https://t.co/5LPl8dBAjkNoah Kagan hiring high schooler to create content plus his own Free Work to job story
- 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 biggest argument I’ve seen is that AI art steals from artists. You know who else steals from artists? People.
A while ago I got interested in being more agentic. Emmett Shear tweeted that it was teachable. He would train people by prompting them with certain questions. I gathered those questions and put them into a flow chart that I go through to problem-solve: https://t.co/kM0MID8bT5... See moreA decent if very explicit flow chart on how to be more high agency
