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by jasonshen 4y ago
Really neat story and makes sense that Philip isn’t the only one who thought to do this.
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by jasonshen 4y ago
This is such a fascinating story, I was literally thinking about this a few months ago when Equinox randomly contacted me. Also identify as an (ex)founder with ADHD. Would love to hear from you and hear about this journey if you're int
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by jasonshen 4y ago
OP here. Decided to share this on HN because it seemed relevant given the earlier article on seeking structure. A lot of folks responded to my comment about Philip sharing that they too have experienced a yearning for physical labor. http
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by jasonshen 4y ago
I would encourage you to listen to the podcast, because he definitely does reflect on this, but it wasn’t the focus of my interview, because this was focused on ways in which burned out tech workers try to find meaning in their life, not an
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From Burned Out Tech CEO to Amazon Warehouse Associate(jasonshen.com)
357 points by jasonshen 4y ago|328 comments
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by jasonshen 4y ago
I spoke to a long-time Microsoft and Facebook eng leader who left his post as a nonprofit software CEO due to burnout and then spent many months languishing and spiralling into depression. He actually decided to get a job as an Amazon wareh
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Conviction: A Startup Founder's Most Valuable Asset(medium.com)
9 points by jasonshen 4y ago|0 comments
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by jasonshen 4y ago
Oops, thanks for the catch re: the spaces. Looks like I can't edit the comment anymore though. That said, I'd say going from a SaaS model where you charge companies or universities $40k/year to access software that they provi
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We used a 49 slide deck to decide our company's future(twitter.com)
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by jasonshen 4y ago
Thanks Ricky! Yeah the 5 I wrote about are: Zimride (college carpool) → Lyft Grubwithus (shared meals) → GOAT Meerkat (Twitter livestream) → Houseparty Fates Forever (iPad MOBA game) → Discord The Lobby (finance recruiting) → Nuvocargo
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Oh Shit, You’re Going Through a Reorg(every.to)
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by jasonshen 5y ago
Got to work briefly on this project and really excited to see it reach the public! Congrats to trueadm and the whole team on this.
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by jasonshen 5y ago
Surprised no one has talked yet about Ghost, which feels like what Wordpress would have been had it been founded in 2013 instead of 2003. I recently converged from Substack, Convertkit and Wordpress down to just Ghost. It's not perfect
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The Ghost Galop: a song about navigating the hellscape of open-source software(youtube.com)
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Switching to Ghost: Why and How I Did It(jasonshen.com)
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How to Make Eng Oncall (and Your Life) Suck Less(jasonshen.substack.com)
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by jasonshen 5y ago
This is pretty much the norm many FAANG companies * — mobility is a huge driver of competition among internal teams to create a great culture, provide growth opportunities and do impactful work. Downside is that some important but not sexy
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How Masculine Ideals Affect Our Resilience(jasonshen.substack.com)
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by jasonshen 5y ago
I get the vision. You're building Superhuman but for browsers. Power tools for power users who are willing to invest the $$ and the effort to reimagine the most frequently used tool on their computer. Bravo!
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The Document Arms Race Intensifies(jasonshen.substack.com)
31 points by jasonshen 5y ago|2 comments
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by jasonshen 5y ago
While property prices have definitely risen, consider that every other industry has not seen the same level of income growth. We are still privileged to command this kind of salary as tech employees. (Yes we worked hard etc but I also try t
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by jasonshen 5y ago
For those who don’t know, OP was a PM at Microsoft in the Gates era, wrote several books on innovation and project management, went back to work as a fully remote Engineering Manager at Automattic (Wordpress) then wrote a book about remote
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Key Challenges Impacting Restaurants in the Pandemic(medium.com)
2 points by jasonshen 6y ago|1 comments
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by jasonshen 6y ago
This is great! Anyone know what the format for Google Docs is and whether Pandoc or another tool is good for importing GGocs into other formats?
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by jasonshen 6y ago
Wim Hof "Iceman" definitely gives me "cult leader" vibes but cool to see this research get published in a very reputable scientific journal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaMjhwFE1Zw
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by jasonshen 6y ago
The article is pointing out how popular stories exacerbate stereotypes that are based in class, and most stereotypes are rooted in some truth. But the whole point of stories are that they are fiction, and yet we often see them as reflecting
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Resilience is not a trait, it's a series of skills(fastcompany.com)
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by jasonshen 6y ago
Top colleges are incredibly competitive. Plenty of valedictorians and budding star athletes, artists, scientists, inventors are not admitted. To admit someone who's said racist remarks is to spit on the talented and hard-working "
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by jasonshen 6y ago
# Making Connections # A random walk down tech, fitness, product thinking, org design, nerd culture, persuasion, and behavior change. https://jasonshen.substack.com/
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by jasonshen 7y ago
This is neat! Can you tell me how you got around to building this and what it's most useful for? I'm not a programmer but I've been thinking a lot about migrating out of Evernote to Roam or Notion and this made me think of th

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