Jason Shen
@jasonshen
Exec coach helping founders and creative leaders rebound and reinvent so they do more of what matters most.
Jason Shen
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
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
But have you ever tried to make pasta with claw hands?
- Hey! Remember when we did a video on MY top 5 fav ADHD strategies? (https://t.co/LeHyoig78P... See more
Best community sourced ADHD strategies
Finding happiness is hard
- Jim Simons on luck: "People underestimate its importance except when things go badly. Then they’re very happy to ascribe it to bad luck, which it may be, of course. One has to recognize that luck plays a meaningful role in everyone’s lives. You get born to decent parents in a good part of the world, and you’re way ahead of the game. And that certai... See more
A remarkable investor comments on the importance of luck (versus skill)
Sometimes a rat just wants to say hi
- 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
- 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
