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.
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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.
Sep 18
119: My 12 Hour Walk —
What I learned from walking 29 miles in a single day.
Sep 11
118: Creative Output —
🧠 Enhancing Your Creative Output
🖼 Unscratchable (Scotch & Bean)
👉 A Different Aftermath (AI Comic)
Sep 04
117: Resilience Archetypes —
🤔 How do you approach change?
🧠 Saying No to Say Yes
🖼 Deadlines (Scotch & Bean)
👉 Serena’s Final Fight
Aug 28
116: Finding Your Voice —
Come to my salon with Herbert Lui on fostering creativity
Aug 20
115: The Hidden Backstory of 5 Startup Pivots That Grew to $43B —
From Lyft to Discord, here are 5 pivots that created $43B+ in value—have you heard of them all?
Aug 16
114: A Bittersweet Photo & A Failed Startup Pivot —
Lessons learned going from Vanity Fair to folding my first startup
Aug 06
113: The Art of Being Mentorable —
How to cultivate the qualities that make others want to invest in you
Jul 31
112: Rediscovering the Power of Video —
I'm making videos again on YouTube.
Jul 24
111: Switching Teams at Work —
After two years building B2B tools at Meta, it's time for a change.
Jul 16
110: I (Finally) Got Covid —
No one escapes it forever.
Jul 03
109: Cut & Run —
You gotta know when to hold 'em, and when to fold 'em. Here's a story from a mentee conversation.
Jun 28
108: Righting after a Reorg —
I’ve been thinking a lot about reorgs, and how you can stay resilient through the abrupt changes they can bring.
Jun 22
107: My Resilience Mini-Series —
The first installment of Rethinking Resilience, my 8-part mini-series of longform essays on navigating change just went live on Every. I would love for you to read it.
Jun 12
106: Creative Doing —
Early notes on running a creative challenge on Twitter. What does Rodin's The Thinker have to do with Virgil Abloh, the late artistic director of menswear at Luis Vutton?
Jun 05
105: Main Character Energy —
Applying the principles of great storytelling to a life of meaning
May 28
104: Turning 36 —
12 lessons learned in my thirty-sixth year
May 22
103: Designing Ritual —
The word ritual appears inside the word spiritual. And in our increasingly secular society, rituals are being lost. How can we bring them back?