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 Happen — Reading 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 2021 — A 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
Nov 27
080—Unpacking "Traditional Masculinity" and How It Relates to Resilience — In late 2018, the American Psychological Association put forward a set of guidelines for psychological practice with boys and men. The drafting process started way back in 2005 so it's far from a flash-in-the-pan project.
Nov 20
079: The Story of How I Switched to Ghost — 🖼 How does an organization forget? + 👉 Ethan Mollick: A Twitter professor worth following This the 79th edition of Cultivating Resilience [https://www.jasonshen.com/newsletter], a weekly newsletter how we build, adapt, and lead in times of change—brought to you by Jason Shen, a PM, resilience coach, 1st gen immigrant,
Nov 20
Switching to Ghost: Why and How I Did It — I merged 3 digital publishing tools into 1 and this is the story of how and why. This is a rather long article so feel free to skip to the section that matters to you: * My Previous Publishing Setup * The Hassles of the Prior Setup * Considering My Options * Ghost: Built
Nov 13
078: Why Does Tech Seem to Burn People Out So Quickly? — This the 78th edition of Cultivating Resilience, a weekly newsletter how we build, adapt, and lead in times of change—brought to you by Jason Shen, a PM, resilience coach, 1st gen immigrant, ex-gymnast, and 3x startup founder 🧠 Why Does Tech Seem to Burn People Out So Quickly? Some time
Nov 07
077: Why External Benchmarks are Flawed & Evolution Breeds Inefficiency — 🖼 Return to Office (Scotch & Bean) + 👉 Koreans Were Boozing Hard in 1020 AD This the 77th edition of Cultivating Resilience, a weekly newsletter how we build, adapt, and lead in times of change—brought to you by Jason Shen, a PM, resilience coach, 1st gen immigrant, ex-gymnast, and 3x startup
Oct 30
076: How an Ex-Stanford Dean Learned to Embrace Her Child's Struggle — 🖼 Sweat Therapy (Scotch & Bean) + 👉 Bilal Mahmood for State Assembly