Jason Shen
@jasonshen
Exec coach helping founders and creative leaders rebound and reinvent so they do more of what matters most.
Jason Shen
- 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 ima... See more
There’s power in neurodiverse people if you can harness their strengths
Are you familiar with the midwit meme? So, it’s this bell curve with a guy who doesn’t think very much, then someone who has average intelligence but thinks it’s superior, and then the guy who’s kind of transcended everything and is very intelligent and actually thinks in the same way as the guy who doesn’t think very much. So for me, I think I st
... See morefrom "AI for wonder": An interview with Michelle Huang, artist by Michelle Huang
- 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
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 result, the more clickable the thumbnail https://t.co/2IoLC0i505Each 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- The fact is, meetings are often ineffective because most workers aren't disciplined enough to:
share an agenda in advance of the meeting
prioritize discussion topics
make crisp decisions
provide constructive feedback
assign next steps / follow ups
Do you really think that if we cancelled the meeting, they'll be disciplined enough to write clear documents... See more - In fact, people with extreme traits can often structure their lives in such a way that they can trade on the ways they’re exceptional, leaving no persistent reason to address some particular deficit they have. And, generally, people are savvy enough to hide their dysfunction. People will disappoint you, eventually.
from Some Advice Gathered From People Smarter Than Me by Sasha Chapin
people hide weaknesses
Imagine being able to have a language conversation about anything with a computer. This is now possible and available to many people for the first time with ChatGPT. In this episode we take a look at the consequences and some interesting insights from Open AI’s CEO Sam Altman.
from It’s Time to Pay Attention to A.I. (ChatGPT and Beyond) by ColdFusion
We need big brains to manage all the models
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 onboarded, experienced value, and then tweeted about @read... See moreThings that don’t scale for Readwise growth
