Jason Shen
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Exec coach helping founders and creative leaders rebound and reinvent so they do more of what matters most.
Jason Shen
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
Kai Fu Lee, a longtime AI researcher, former CEO of Google China, and technology investor, has developed a 2x2 matrix for how humans should expect to interact with AI in his 2018 book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order.
He defines two spectra: structured vs unstructured environments and asocial vs social environments.
Jason Shen • 131: How to Be Human in the Age of Generative AI
When you’re totally ok but they keep pouring
Don’t let those termites find the sun
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.
Dean Simonton, a psychologist, has spent his career studying creative productivity. He has found that even creative geniuses, what some may call David Guetta, have a hard time recognizing when they have a hit. Simonton spent some time studying Beethoven and spoke about him,
“Beethoven’s own favorites among his symphonies, sonatas, and quartets are... See more
“Beethoven’s own favorites among his symphonies, sonatas, and quartets are... See more
You truly never know
Finding happiness is hard
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... See more
There’s power in neurodiverse people if you can harness their strengths