Feb 19
141: How to Be a Dark Horse —
💡Cultivating Resilience is a weekly newsletter about rebounding from setbacks and reinventing the future—by 3x founder and executive coach Jason Shen.
Once you pass 35 you really start to rethink the idea of redeyes.
On a recent West ✈️ East flight, I tried my best to get comfortable in a
Feb 12
140: Process > Outcome —
Getting laid off, missing out on the Olympics, and emphasizing effort over results.
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.
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