Jason Shen

@jasonshen

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

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CHEAT SHEET on playing the Corporate Political Game. If you’re planning on making a success of senior leadership in a large corporate, you will probably need to play the corporate political game. Personally not fpr me, but this is a cheat sheet on how I would do it.... See more

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How power works

Even if you don’t work in corporate, it helps to understand how people advance to the top

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Finding happiness is hard

A friend of mine is a big Instagram influencer in Mexico (nearly a million followers and deals with lots of brands). As far as I can tell, he is a happy man. He freely admits that he is selling a fake persona, and has achieved peace with it. I asked him if he could do something interesting with his account (from activism to conceptual art). His... See more

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be goddamn yourself

Nothing worse than becoming famous / successful with something you don’t believe in

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when we first started @readwise, all i did for the first summer was write personalized cold emails to anyone who'd expressed pain around their Kindle highlights online it was grueling, rejection-laden work, but in July 2017 we celebrated our first "best day ever": the inimitable @craigmod... See more

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Growth Marketing

Things that don’t scale for Readwise growth

How it Works

Human (Jason) uploads a voice memo to specific Google Drive folder

Zapier checks for new files in Google Drive, sends audio to Temi for transcription

Zapier checks Temi for completed transcript, sends it back to different Google Drive folder

Zapier checks for new transcripts, sends them to OpenAI with 3 separate prompts (rewrite,

Jason Shen | Cultivating Resilience • 138: Effortless Essays

If you've carefully analyzed a situation but something still feels wrong, that discomfort deserves attention. It might signal that your unconscious mind has recognized a pattern your conscious analysis missed. This is particularly true in uncertain and dynamic situations where, as Gigerenzer points out, logical analysis often falls short.

George Sudarkoff • Stop Analyzing Your Gut Feelings: A Counter-intuitive Guide to Better Leadership

Intuition should be the last call, not just the first

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.

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Creativity

I’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.