Jason Shen
@jasonshen
Exec coach helping founders and creative leaders rebound and reinvent so they do more of what matters most.
Jason Shen
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.... See more
Frederik Christopher Gieschenx.comA remarkable investor comments on the importance of luck (versus skill)
1. RESULT
Result thumbnails feature a visualized result
Whether it's a physical product or a skill, the curiosity is driven by the questions:
"How did they do it?" and commonly, "How can I do it, too?"
The more sought-after the... See more
Each example is also a great way to think about how to hook someone into a story:
Result—how did they get that?
Transformation—how did they go from this to that?
Comparison—what’s different between experience A and B?
Novelty—I’ve never thought about that thing before
Story—I need to know what happened with that
Moment—I need to know exactly what happened next
“What one generation accepts, the next generation assumes, and the next generation rejects.”
Social norms follow a cycle
/// 100 QUESTIONS /// to gain clarity via Alex Morris:
Why are we doing this?
Ask that of yourself and the team with regularity.
What’s the simplest explanation?
What reaction should all the creative achieve?
What’s your most controversial opinion?
What little frictions exist that might bleed out the work if allowed to compound?
Are you solving a
How to sharpen your ideas
So even if you don’t agree that reading fiction makes us treat others better, it is a way of treating ourselves better. Reading has been shown to put our brains into a pleasurable trance-like state, similar to meditation, and it brings the same health benefits of deep relaxation and inner calm. Regular readers sleep better, have lower stress... See more
Ceridwen Dovey • Can Reading Make You Happier? | the New Yorker
The healing power of reading—The New Yorker
Transforming Pain - A Daily Meditation by Fr. Richard Rohr
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If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it—usually to those closest to us: our family, our neighbors, our co-workers, and, invariably, the most vulnerable, our children.
This realtor does “speed tour” videos and its probably the best thing you’ll watch today https://t.co/ucz6Brhz14
Turner Novakx.comWhy see it slow when you can see it fast?
Like girls, boys openly express their desire for genuine connections with others, including with boys. They reveal the human capacity for mutual understanding, care, and empathy and demonstrate remarkably astute abilities to read the human world. Yet as they reach middle to late adolescence and as expectations of manhood intensify, they begin to... See more
From A Crisis of Connection
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 https://t.co/M8adOBcwL5
Josh is making animated videosx.comA decent if very explicit flow chart on how to be more high agency