Jason Shen
@jasonshen
Exec coach helping founders and brilliant misfits build companies and partnerships they’re deeply proud of.
Jason Shen
jasonshen.com
But have you ever tried to make pasta with claw hands?
We need big brains to manage all the models
#doflamingo
tiktok.comWhen you’re totally ok but they keep pouring
Really good HBR article about tough lessons for new CEOs of bigger companies (2004 but still very relevant)
“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
Neil Gaiman's Most Important Rule for Writing #writing #neilgaiman
tiktok.comA really good robot
Work on stuff you love so much you’d do it 100 times without a huge result and still want to keep going (eg MKBHD) https://t.co/qpKHNwRlHz
Jason Shenx.comMKBHD did 100 videos and had only 74 subs
Media mogul. Suppose you were really wealthy, or otherwise you maybe inherited your dream sort of media studio or production house. What would it be? A film studio? Record label? Magazine? If you were guaranteed of succeeding, what kind of media mogul would you be? Followup: what sort of movies, or books, or artists, etc would you be looking to make, showcase? (I have a lot of followup questions about what the whole operation would look and feel like.)
Bank Heist. What role would you play in a “bank heist”? Feel free to modify the heist so that it’s not a bank, maybe you’re retrieving a stolen diamond from an evil dictator and returning it to a museum or something. Safecracker? Getaway driver? Hacker? Mastermind? Brute? Conman? Fixer? Inside man? Wild card?
Theme park. You’ve been given a plot of land in a surprisingly accessible location and all the resources you need to build “some kind of theme park”. What would it be like? It doesn’t have to have rides, it can be literally any kind of festival or event you dream up.
Golden ticket. What would be the most incredible thing that could happen to your project/business/operation? Why? How could we make that more likely? What are some intermediate steps we could define?”
