Jason Shen
@jasonshen
Exec coach helping founders and brilliant misfits build companies and partnerships they’re deeply proud of.
Jason Shen
jasonshen.com
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
They found that in the opinions of managers, computer use increases the need for skilled workers, computers tend to increase workers’ autonomy, and computers increase the need and ability for management to monitor their workers. All of those features will feed into the need for workers who are smarter, better trained, and more conscientious.
Tyler Cowen • Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
Replace the word computer with AI and every point is magnified. AI powered workers gives more autonomy, requires more skill, and needs more oversight (lest things go sideways)
Eventually 4 legged running will surpass 2 legged
one of the most interesting pieces of information we found through our analysis is that Great Funds know how to concentrate capital exceptionally well.
Great Funds invested 38.7% of their capital in 23.1% of their investments, which generated over 5X+. 23.9% of that capital went into their 10X+ investments.
Good Funds on the other hand invested... See more
Great Funds invested 38.7% of their capital in 23.1% of their investments, which generated over 5X+. 23.9% of that capital went into their 10X+ investments.
Good Funds on the other hand invested... See more
Jason Shuman • Big Winners and Bold Concentration: Unveiling the Secret Portfolio Returns of Leading Venture Funds
Knowing where to double down is critical to outsized success
If you’re totally lost on what to focus on getting better at, focus on braiding.
Narrative-style writing (fiction and nonfiction) has four major components:
And you... See more
Narrative-style writing (fiction and nonfiction) has four major components:
- Action: Things happening
- Dialogue: What people are saying
- Description: The environment around the people and events
- Interiority: The characters internal reactions to the place and action
And you... See more
On Writing Better: 43 Things I Learned from My Insane 2 Years of Study
Nat Eliason on how to improve your narrative-style writing
We need big brains to manage all the models
Sources:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/12/mic...
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/13/chi...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
https://www.quantamagazine.org/physic...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02155
https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/15...
https://openai.com/blog/instruction-f...
https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165
... See moreColdFusion • It’s Time to Pay Attention to A.I. (ChatGPT and Beyond)
My house plants became healthier and died less often once I stopped tracking their watering, stopped trying to use moisture meters or other tools, and learned to pick up on their vibes instead.
Many such cases.
Nat Eliasonx.comThe importance of feel over measurement