Shireen Jaffer

Sit with yourself. Identify what you’re feeling — is it anxiety, exhaustion, lack of fulfillment? I’ve found connecting with my body to be most helpful in these moments. Embracing the feelings and giving them a hug. Trying to understand them to identify the root cause. Not springing into action, instead feeling into it. Sending love!

One of my investors, who built a unicorn and took the company public (and continues to be CEO!) shared these words with me the other day: “when you are feeling like you suck, that you’re no longer good for the role, that someone would do a better job - just find a way to make progress toward the more ideal state - identify where you need to go, and the steps required, then just start making...

There are answers to every question you have. Go find the people who can help you uncover them. 🤝

Working on getting all of us out of tab hell and collecting feedback on the latest demo! For anyone with 20+ tabs open right now and juggling 5+ projects, would love your feedback. here’s a quick demo and 3 feedback questions: https://edvo.typeform.com/to/jAG...

Told chatGPT to role-play as an interviewer for a product design role at a early stage startup (gave a full scenario and JD), and then asked it to give me a grade and feedback on my responses along with tips on how to improve. Did this as an example of how we can leverage LLMs for helping people upskill in their careers!

There’s a lot of fear in education right now that AI will make it easy for kids to cheat and disempower learning, which I think is silly given edu already fails terribly at enabling critical thinking. Whereas tools like ChatGPT, if taught how to leverage effectively, can actually help in scaling affective education. Have been excited about how Khan Academy is incorporating AI to teach...

Two things that I’ve found most important: 1. Creating Spaces / Windows by project — so whether that’s having multiple monitors where you can see everything relevant to the one project you’re focused on, or using an app that helps with that. This makes sure I stay in flow on one thing and don’t get distracted by irrelevant info. 2. Time blocking. I set goals for the week and day, and make...

“Rest is work too” — I remind my team and myself of this often. Energy management is just as important as time management, if not more important. :) Few things I do to take care of my energy and mental health: - start every day with saying 3 gratitudes out loud - no phone in bedroom, so I wake up with no ability to grab my tech - I found the intuition journal on Amazon and it’s fabulous,...

Hi everyone! So excited to introduce Personal Learning to all of you. Darlene and I started building this for ourselves during COVID because we were spending so much time learning and questioning pretty much everything we read online... I also started realizing that even though Learning Management Systems have existed for decades, they’ve been built for huge corporations and schools to teach...

What a fun day to launch :)

Hi product hunters! I’m Shireen Jaffer, CEO and Founder of Edvo, and one of the makers of Mental Models. After helping 50,000 people navigate their careers, my team and I noticed that so many people simply want help making better decisions. Mental Models help with this and don’t require us to rely on anyone except ourselves! But our research showed that the majority of people aren’t even...