Jason Shen
@jasonshen
Exec coach helping founders and brilliant misfits build companies and partnerships they’re deeply proud of.
Jason Shen
jasonshen.com
The fact is, meetings are often ineffective because most workers aren't disciplined enough to:
share an agenda in advance of the meeting
prioritize discussion topics
make crisp decisions
provide constructive feedback
assign next steps / follow ups
Do you really think that if we cancelled the meeting, they'll be disciplined enough to write clear... See more
share an agenda in advance of the meeting
prioritize discussion topics
make crisp decisions
provide constructive feedback
assign next steps / follow ups
Do you really think that if we cancelled the meeting, they'll be disciplined enough to write clear... See more
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
Really good HBR article about tough lessons for new CEOs of bigger companies (2004 but still very relevant)
2 Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
Black Swan author's rules for living - Boing Boing
Nassim Taleb on leveraging serendipity of social gatherings
A while ago I got interested in being more agentic. Emmett Shear tweeted that it was teachable. He would train people by prompting them with certain questions. I gathered those questions and put them into a flow chart that I go through to problem-solve: https://t.co/kM0MID8bT5 https://t.co/M8adOBcwL5
Josh is making animated videosx.comA decent if very explicit flow chart on how to be more high agency
Congrats to Christian Cooper on his Emmy win. We love to see it. #christiancooper #blacktiktok
tiktok.comGetting the last laugh (black bird watcher)
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,