Jason Shen
@jasonshen
Exec coach helping founders and creative leaders rebound and reinvent so they do more of what matters most.
Jason Shen
How it Works
- Human (Jason) uploads a voice memo to specific Google Drive folder
- Zapier checks for new files in Google Drive, sends audio to Temi for transcription
- Zapier checks Temi for completed transcript, sends it back to different Google Drive folder
- Zapier checks for new transcripts, sends them to OpenAI with 3 separate prompts (rewrite,
Jason Shen | Cultivating Resilience • 138: Effortless Essays
Seven Surprises for New CEOs
hbr.org
Really good HBR article about tough lessons for new CEOs of bigger companies (2004 but still very relevant)
Deconstructing greatness is the key to becoming great
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.
Jeffrey Pfeffer • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
Accentuate certain flaws to underscore your strengths
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
The 1000 word Save Wisdom Questions. – SaveWisdom.org
savewisdom.org
Finding happiness is hard
Wanna know how they get birds to stop chirping on movie sets?
