Jason Shen
@jasonshen
Exec coach helping founders and creative leaders rebound and reinvent so they do more of what matters most.
Jason Shen
Don't flash owls!
tiktok.comWanna know how they get birds to stop chirping on movie sets?
Creative re-imagining of widely panned Apple ad by reversing the order
2 Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
Black Swan author's rules for living - Boing Boing
Nassim Taleb on leveraging serendipity of social gatherings
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
Things that don’t scale for Readwise growth
Eventually 4 legged running will surpass 2 legged
A lovely comic about a one-man pizza shop
if you want a relationship to last a long time, somehow you have to keep the scar tissue from building up. And that's really hard. So, when there's an issue, you somehow have to resolve it where there is zero lingering animosity. Nobody is even a little bit upset. Because even a little upset, that scar tissue that accumulates, that never goes away
Talk Given by John Ousterhout About Sustaining Relationships
You have to clear out any lingering resentment if you want something to last
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... See more
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... See more