Jason Shen

Jason Shen

The Outlier Coach—helping founders build conviction in what's next · 3x venture-backed startup founder (acq by FB) · Author of 'The Path to Pivot' & 'Weirdly Brilliant' · ADHD · Former NCAA gymnast


Apr 16
099: Eulogy Virtues🤔 On top or out there? 🧠 External vs Internal Achievements 🖼 Big Review (Scotch & Bean 044) 👉 Why Free Speech on Social is So Hard
Apr 09
098: Our Voice🤔 Do you like your voice? 🧠 The Way You Sound 🖼 Four Microphones 👉 Audio Gear
Apr 02
097: High Stakes🤔 Loyalty 🧠 Love & Standardized Tests 🖼 Failure (S&B 043) 👉 Raise Your Voice
Mar 26
096: Dealing with Anger🤔 U Mad Bro? 🧠 Dealing with Anger Productively 🖼 Reorgs (a TikTok video) 👉 The Happiness Lab (podcast)
Mar 18
095: My Journey into Resilience🤔 Are you listening? 🧠 Sharing my resilience story 🖼 A Besieged Museum 👉 Chasing Merit Badges
Mar 12
094: Sacred Words🤔 Celebrating 100 editions 🧠 Poetry as Spiritual Practice 🖼 Team Morale (S&B #042) 👉 Easing into Writing Poetry (exercises)
Mar 05
093: The Role of Fear🤔 Your life on the silver screen 🧠 What losing taught a UFC champion about fear and confidence 🖼 Airport (S&B #041) 👉 Encanto (Disney movie)
Feb 26
092: Forever War, Forever Peace🤔 How are you feeling? 🧠 Waging Forever Peace 🖼 A Vietnam Execution 👉 Gibbons (game)
Feb 19
091: Mindful Metaphors🤔 The right number of fans 🧠 Mindful Metaphors 🖼 Competition (S&B #040) 👉 "And When You Survive This"
Feb 12
090: Perfectly Designed Systems🤔 What's your chronotype? 🧠 On Human and Tech Systems 🖼 An (Updated) Resilience Framework 👉 Humanities (illustrations)
Feb 05
089: More Meaning, Not Less Work🤔 Avoidant Feelings? 🧠 More Meaning, Not Less Work 🖼 Self-Sufficient (S&B 039) 👉 Raising $100k to fighting anti-Asian hate
Jan 29
088: The Happiness Graph🤔 How happy were you in 2021? 🧠 How Arctic families raise resilient kids 🖼 The Happiness Graph Has Flipped 👉 Ode to Open Source - Ghost
Jan 22
087: Living Recklessly🤔 Who do you depend on? 🧠 Joan Didion's UC Riverside Speech 🖼 Finding Peace (S&B 038) 👉 Gamma (a docs + slides mashup)
Jan 15
086: Embracing Uselessness🤔 How do you restore yourself? 🧠 Embracing Uselessness 🖼 Stress Management (S&B 037) 👉 A checklist to track 2022
Jan 08
085: New Year’s Edition🤔 What does resilience mean to you in 2022? 🧠 bell hooks on the vulnerability of love 🖼 Intentions (Scotch & Bean #036) 👉 A Twitter 🧵 on annual reviews
Jan 04
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They HappenReading Notes on Preventative Interventions In a Nutshell: Upstream is a book about prevention: how to not just mitigate the damage of problems after they happen (downstream) but address the underlying drivers of the problem such that the problem no longer occurs or is much less severe. * This type of
Dec 27
084: 13 Resilience Lessons From 2021A look back on Cultivating Resilience in 2021, including Presidential leadership in turbulent times, the "stress-is-enhancing" mindset, how near-misses help you win and 10 more ideas to help you build, adapt, and lead.
Dec 18
083—What's one thing you're proud of doing this year?🧠 Branding the Problem 
🖼 Show & Tell (Scotch & Bean) 👉 12 Days of Cardmas
Dec 11
082—Why does software change so fast?🤔 Moderate living success or legendary success post-death?
 🖼 Memes for PMs + Founders
 👉 Wombo.art (Generative Art)
Dec 04
081: Sources of meaning🧠 Should we take a day off? Like really off? 🖼 Shadow (Scotch & Bean #034) 👉 A full-body kettlebell workout