Feb 06
139: Courage is the First Virtue — An ode to courage in the face of fear
Jan 29
138: Effortless Essays — How I built an AI-powered workflow to help me turn voice memos into 1st draft essays (and how you can do it too!)
Jan 21
137: Shapes & Stories — An 80 year old psych paper and a handy framework for telling better stories
Jan 13
136: How Humans Still Trump AI — 2023 is is a year Generative AI really comes for knowledge workers. Here are 10 enduring human traits that can help us stay ahead of the machines. 🧵
Jan 07
135: A Self-Paced Annual Review — I made a self-paced version of my annual review. Plus: learning to have conviction, bike bootcamps, mixing up your workouts, the human need for novelty.
Dec 31
134: How We Found Resilience in 2022 — A recap of the newsletter editions you read most—and a few others I'm proud to have shared with you this year.
Dec 24
133: Secrets, Extroverts, and Interfaces — This week's concise 🎉🎄holiday edition 🕎❄️ focuses on uncovering secrets to base your startup on, how extroverts can find the social time they need, and opportunities in generative AI for founders.
Dec 17
132: Twelve Ways to Practice Resilience After a Layoff — In my latest piece for on Every, I wrote about how people can use my resilience framework to better navigate the challenges of a layoff. It's been the most "hearted" piece in the series so far.
Dec 11
131: How to Be Human in the Age of Generative AI — This is my first serious collection of thoughts on Generative AI. What these systems are and why they matter, What is uniquely valuable about human intelligence / labor, What I'm doing about all this
Dec 03
130: Happiness at Work — My latest piece in The Muse and early faves from OpenAI's ChatGPT
Nov 26
129: Layoffs at Meta — Featuring 2 🎬 's with thoughts from me before and after the layoffs went down.
Nov 19
128: Too Genius to Fail — In the last few weeks, at least two people who have been heralded as genius have been revealed to incompetent in important ways and I habe some things to say about it.
Nov 13
127: 3 Times I F*cked Up — My latest piece in Every: "What Getting Sued, Scammed, and Arrested Taught Me About Resilience"
Nov 05
126: 🎬 Push-Up & Ponder — 🎬 Why Being a Jack of All Trades Isn't Bad 🎬 Why You Shouldn't Fear Rejection 🎬 Why Founders Need Conviction
Oct 29
125: The Double Loop Pivot — Why The Double Loop Pivot Is the Best Way To Explore Changing Your Business + Strategies for Managing ADHD
Oct 22
124: Restarting Adderall — 🤔 Want to Win a Free Copy of Creative Doing? 🧠 Restarting Adderall 🖼 The Pain Points Map 👉 A 1M Impression Tweet and a $125M Raise
Oct 15
123: Microworkouts — 🤔 Biggest change in last year? 🧠 Microworkouts 🖼 The Double Loop Pivot 👉 Profitability of ADHD Founders
Oct 08
122: Conviction — 💡Cultivating Resilience is a newsletter that helps innovators navigate change and bring new product and ideas into world. It's published by Jason Shen, a resilience coach, product manager, 1st gen immigrant, ex-gymnast, and 3x startup founder. Your email address Subscribe Please check your inbox and click the link
Oct 02
121: Reboot your hedonic treadmill — Ex-Microsoft and Facebook engineer Philip Su reflects on the lessons learned from a grueling period working at Amazon
Sep 24
120: Burned Out Tech CEO → Warehouse Associate — After a high flying 20+ year career in tech, Philip Su burned out. He found solace in an unexpected place: a retail Amazon job.