Mar 26
096: Dealing with Anger —
🤔 U Mad Bro?
🧠 Dealing with Anger Productively
🖼 Reorgs (a TikTok video)
👉 The Happiness Lab (podcast)
Mar 18
095: My Journey into Resilience —
🤔 Are you listening?
🧠 Sharing my resilience story
🖼 A Besieged Museum
👉 Chasing Merit Badges
Mar 12
094: Sacred Words —
🤔 Celebrating 100 editions
🧠 Poetry as Spiritual Practice
🖼 Team Morale (S&B #042)
👉 Easing into Writing Poetry (exercises)
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
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
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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