Jason Shen
@jasonshen
Exec coach helping founders and creative leaders rebound and reinvent so they do more of what matters most.
Jason Shen
@jasonshen
Exec coach helping founders and creative leaders rebound and reinvent so they do more of what matters most.
Ironic that Gladwell thought about groups for a book about outliers
Meaning & satisfaction is often found in doing doing what is needed

AI Prompts and ChatGPT
GPT-4 prompt for making engineering decisions in unfamiliar territory
But have you ever tried to make pasta with claw hands?
We need big brains to manage all the models
You probably aren’t—and don’t want to appear in any case—perfect. As long as the quirks you display are irrelevant to the core of your reputation and why people select you—in the case of Summers, for his brilliance in the field of economics—the flaws and foibles can actually strengthen people’s commitment to you.
Accentuate certain flaws to underscore your strengths
we are simply incapable of imagining ourselves on the other side of a profound change, because the present self doing the imagining is the very self that needs to have died in order for the future self being imagined to emerge.
This is why the profoundest changes tend to happen not willed but spawned by fertile despair — the surrender at the rock
... See moreThe pain of change
2 strategies for winning in venture—be early / get in, or be contrarian