Captain's Log
I’ve journaled on and off in various formats throughout my life.
I kept a paper diary, shifted to a
Jason Shen
The Outlier Coach—helping founders build companies they can be proud of with partners who truly have their back · 3x venture-backed startup founder (acq by FB) · Author of 'The Path to Pivot' & 'Weirdly Brilliant' · ADHD · Former NCAA gymnast
Finding Your Edge
I want to talk about product design and positioning as it relates to Elizabeth
Warren dropping out of the race.
Adaptability is No Joke
Both Startups and Improv Are About Making Stuff Up on the Fly
I recently participated in an “Improv for Entrepreneurs”
Recharging is for batteries, not people
Last year, journalist Anne Helen Petersen wrote a widely shared piece in
Buzzfeed naming millennials the “Burnout Generation”
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Solve for the Harder Problem [Interview with Bilal Mahmood]
ClearBrain CEO Bilal Mahmood shares 7 lessons on building a new analytics category, including why solving the harder technical problem creates a more defensible startup.
What We Should Learn from the Away Scandal
The spectacular fallout from a recent investigation into Away, which portrayed
the beloved luggage company as a toxic workplace, has
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Why it's ok to be a jack of all trades
Community means friendship
Working in tech, you hear the word “community” a lot. When I was starting my
career more than a decade
Techstars Alexa
Midgame [http://www.midgame.gg/] was accepted into The Alexa Accelerator
[https://www.techstars.com/programs/alexa-program/], a program
Conflict Isn't Always Bad
My natural tendency is to avoid conflict. The few times I fought in school, I
was caught and punished for
Lessons on Persistence from Dean Karnazes
Photo by Alex Gorham
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My Op-Ed in Vox
Read my piece: Why Always Be My Maybe’s Asian American underachiever is groundbreaking