I'm Jason Shellen. Founder, designer and product leader on a mission to increase human understanding.
Previously: Founded Brizzly, Boxer & Google Reader. Led product teams at Slack, Pinterest, Google and Blogger.
Currently: Hatching something new.
Latest Posts
Fall Update
It’s been two months since I wrote about my ongoing struggle with chronic daily pain so here’s a quick progress update. In short, I’m in less pain in my head...
The Long Middle Part
The opening of Stevie Nicks “Edge of Seventeen” crackles over an obscured speaker in the surgery center pre-op area. I’m in a recliner with a hairnet on and booties over...
Post-erity
Tonight while looking for my personal blog post about the sale of Thing Labs to AOL I realized… I never posted it. There it sat in the drafts on Blogger....
Build a new model
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.