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
But have you ever tried to make pasta with claw hands?
Jason Feifer on LinkedIn: This famous redesign led to a $600 million sale — but here’s the part… | 168 comments
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Standing out with your ingredients list
Microessay about how things take time by Justin Duke
https://x.com/jmduke/status/1788307295526338883
Things take time.
Nintendo fairly famously was born in 1889, and the modern incarnation - Yamamuchi Nintendo & Co., LTD - was established nearly fifty years later, in 1933. They spent forty years selling playing cards, then another decade operating merely as a distributor of electronics before coming out with their first piece of electronic hardware.
The Lego Group began in a Danish workshop in 1932; it took them 26 years until a confluence of technology, iteration, and luck led them to what we now refer to as a Lego. (Er, sorry - a Lego brick.)
Nike spent eight years merely re-selling (literally, not figuratively) Onitsuka shoes to a U.S. audience.
Gates and Allen ran Microsoft as what was essentially a freelance firm for eight years, too, before scoring a contract with IBM (and even that took an additional two years to be parlayed into MSDOS.)
(There are, of course, some companies that like Athena sprout fully-formed from the head of their creators - Amazon and TSMC come to mind.)
When we build hagiographies of the companies we love (or at least find most interesting), it can be tempting to draw clean, neat, satisfying arcs and fast forward through the boring eras that do not inform our modern understanding of those organizations.
But neither the Nike Cortez nor the Lego System 236 Garage with Automatic Door came from the first decade of either company's existence.
Part of success is staying alive long enough to have the right kinds of things happen to you all at once.
- 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
Where rare esoteric wisdom comes from
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
Heritage Library | Free Vintage Illustration | Heritage Type Co
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Good resource for free vintage images
i trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries - so that i could engage in real-time dialogue with my "inner child"
some reflections below:
michelle huangtwitter.comGenerative AI and GPT-3