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On human performance, AI strategy, creativity, and what it takes to build organizations — and people — that last. Occasional, intentional, worth your time.

Rediscovering life is like a box of chocolates
Human Performance Joyce Shin Human Performance Joyce Shin

Rediscovering life is like a box of chocolates

A student taught me archery. I'd forgotten hobbies existed. For two and a half hours, there was no optimizing, no justifying, no strategizing — just the focus of pulling a bow and the satisfaction of a clean hit. Round 5, the coach came back. Just look at the improvement. That's the delta a little real-time correction makes. In archery. In everything.

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The art of slowing down
Human Performance Joyce Shin Human Performance Joyce Shin

The art of slowing down

My father was diagnosed with cancer. I came home. And somewhere between daily grocery runs with my mom and the weight of the bags I carried back for her, I found the thing I'd been missing in every productivity framework I'd ever built: there's no KPI for presence. In the age of AI, our competitive advantage isn't doing things faster. It's knowing what shouldn't be rushed at all.

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Occasional dispatches on human performance, AI strategy, and the work of building things that last. No cadence pressure — only when there's something worth saying.