Jason Shen

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Exec coach helping founders and creative leaders rebound and reinvent so they do more of what matters most.

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I really hope you give this workflow a try. It's been a delightful way for me to advance my writing efforts and with a bit of effort, you can start using AI to work for you and help you produce more high quality writing because you don't have to start from the blank page.

Jason Shen | Cultivating Resilience • 138: Effortless Essays

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The ostrich really needed a carrot

According to Restrepo-Echavarria and her peers at the St. Louis Fed, this economically-driven shift in marriage preferences accounts for approximately half of the increase in household income inequality between 1980 and 2020 — a figure so profound it almost seems unbelievable. “This is a huge thing,” says Restrepo-Echavarria. “If inequality is... See more

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Assortative mating is a huge factor on income inequality

There are 3 ways to successfully generate outsized returns in venture: 1) Find an obviously great company before anyone else. 2) Compete to win an allocation into an obviously great company. 3) Have a contrarian perspective on a company that everyone else thinks... See more

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Venture Capital

2 strategies for winning in venture—be early / get in, or be contrarian

Eyecandy - Visual Technique Library

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Creativity

Film techniques

How Will Humans Run In The Future?

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Eventually 4 legged running will surpass 2 legged

You can’t escape work You can escape the employment system. But if you think you’ve left work behind there will be a reckoning The desire to contribute is human.

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Meaningful Work

Paul Millerd on the need for human contribution

How Mayweather turned his brittle hands into a boxing wins and big payouts (TikTok creator xeviuniverse) https://t.co/UVlzu6xIuv

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Defying Convention

Floyd Mayweather turned his brittle hands into an advantage by goading people into fighting with him and winning on points

Picking a few hits requires a tolerance for many bad ideas, mediocre ideas, and even good ideas cursed with bad timing. Above all, it requires a business model that supports the inevitability that most new things fail; the most promising ideas often attract a chorus of skeptics; and one big hit can pay for a thousand flops.

Derek Thompson • Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction

Exponential / Power law

hits driven businesses are unintuitive