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
Generative AI and ChatGPT
According to Restrepo-Echavarria and her peers at the St. Louis Fed, this economically-driven shift in marriage preferences accounts for approximately half of the increase in household income inequality between 1980 and 2020 — a figure so profound it almost seems unbelievable. “This is a huge thing,” says Restrepo-Echavarria. “If inequality is... See more
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Assortative mating is a huge factor on income inequality
20 years isn’t that long, right? 😩 #gaminginyour30s #gtavicecity @Retro Games Plus @Noah Grossman #gta #gaming #funny #comedy #humor #gamersoftiktok
tiktok.comWhen the game is more retro than the setting
“What one generation accepts, the next generation assumes, and the next generation rejects.”
Social norms follow a cycle
“I’m 76 years old and I have never learned a lesson in my entire life.”
Review: Curb Your Enthusiasm, “No Lessons Learned” | Season 12, Episode 10
Larry David had a rule of “no hugging and no learning” to describe Seinfeld. Sometimes that attitude is necessary
Media mogul. Suppose you were really wealthy, or otherwise you maybe inherited your dream sort of media studio or production house. What would it be? A film studio? Record label? Magazine? If you were guaranteed of succeeding, what kind of media mogul would you be? Followup: what sort of movies, or books, or artists, etc would you be looking to make, showcase? (I have a lot of followup questions about what the whole operation would look and feel like.)
Bank Heist. What role would you play in a “bank heist”? Feel free to modify the heist so that it’s not a bank, maybe you’re retrieving a stolen diamond from an evil dictator and returning it to a museum or something. Safecracker? Getaway driver? Hacker? Mastermind? Brute? Conman? Fixer? Inside man? Wild card?
Theme park. You’ve been given a plot of land in a surprisingly accessible location and all the resources you need to build “some kind of theme park”. What would it be like? It doesn’t have to have rides, it can be literally any kind of festival or event you dream up.
Golden ticket. What would be the most incredible thing that could happen to your project/business/operation? Why? How could we make that more likely? What are some intermediate steps we could define?”
I remember after GPT-3 came out, I was with my tech-obsessed friends and we were like, hey, let’s read the GPT-3 research paper together. That provoked so many interesting ideas for me. And then when I went back to my parents’ house during the holidays — this was December 2020 — I started thinking about the diaries again. And I actually tweeted
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Generative AI and
More recently I’ve kept repeating to myself, don’t abandon your vision . Decisiveness is knowing myself well enough to take the plunge, then the rest is all faith.
Peak Decisiveness
It’s easy to be brave, briefly. What’s hard is to keep going.