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
if you want a relationship to last a long time, somehow you have to keep the scar tissue from building up. And that's really hard. So, when there's an issue, you somehow have to resolve it where there is zero lingering animosity. Nobody is even a little bit upset. Because even a little upset, that scar tissue that accumulates, that never goes away
Talk Given by John Ousterhout About Sustaining Relationships
You have to clear out any lingering resentment if you want something to last
- Human labor will be in the "Safe Zone" in the social, unstructured environments where it will be hard to train an AI to train pets, offer physical therapy, and style someone's hair and face.
- Meanwhile, structured, asocial work is most easily replaced, such as fast food cooks, garment factory workers, and cashiers, he calls this the "Danger Zone"
- The
Jason Shen • 131: How to Be Human in the Age of Generative AI
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Generative AI combines the encoding of vast corpuses of text and images—which act as training data—and a series of machine learning algorithms to turn text prompts into incredibly creative, intelligent, and useful visual and text responses.
I would rank this among the 3 most transformative pieces of technology I've encountered in my lifetime
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CHEAT SHEET on playing the Corporate Political Game.
If you’re planning on making a success of senior leadership in a large corporate, you will probably need to play the corporate political game.
Personally not fpr me, but this is a cheat sheet on how I would do it.... See more
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Make your version of a copy
In using standards, it is important to ask for precedents. “Have you ever done this before?” and “Have you ever made an exception?” should be part of your everyday vocabulary.
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Negotiation and Getting Your Way
Think like a judge when negotiating—look for precedents and exceptions
His core takeaways were:
- Human desire is infinite so there will always be some work people can do. The question is will the work be meaningful and high value or denigrating and low value
- What humans will likely still do best is empathize with other humans, which enables us to persuade, inspire, entertain, and engender trust.
- People still want other
Jason Shen • 131: How to Be Human in the Age of Generative AI
Finding happiness is hard