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
Deconstructing greatness is the key to becoming great
“I’m 76 years old and I have never learned a lesson in my entire life.”
Review: Curb Your Enthusiasm, “No Lessons Learned” | Season 12, Episode 10
Larry David had a rule of “no hugging and no learning” to describe Seinfeld. Sometimes that attitude is necessary
Jason Feifer on LinkedIn: This famous redesign led to a $600 million sale — but here’s the part… | 168 comments
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Standing out with your ingredients list
You know crossing spears as a guard felt gooood
“What one generation accepts, the next generation assumes, and the next generation rejects.”
Social norms follow a cycle
- The argument is that accountings of history are not accurate, and can never be accurate, thanks to the narrative fallacy . By its nature, narrative necessarily compresses reality into some coherent tale, meaning that accountings of history tend to overemphasise intention and action, instead of the more plausible ‘random actions by actors in a compl
Cedric Chin • Don't Read History for Lessons
Read history for examples of concepts, not direct lessons
twelve years a slave, from his birth, in Dallas County, Alabama, in 1853 or so, until Union cavalry swept through the cotton plantation where he was owned, in 1865. Sixty-four years later, in 1939, homeless on the streets of Montgomery, he became an extraordinary artist, making magnetically beautiful, dramatic, and utterly original drawings on... See more
The Utterly Original Bill Traylor
Outlier Exemplars and Creativity
Bill Traylor, the ultimate late bloomer
