Jason Stirman, Ex-Twitter, Medium Exec Turned App Entrepreneur
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Jason Stirman went to his first meditation class when he was working at Twitter. An early employee there, he eventually quit Twitter with founder Ev Williams with the intent of starting a new company with a "mindful culture." When they started the publishing platform Medium, Stirman said they practiced Holacracy, meaning they ran the company without management, and they held guided meditation sessions in the office three times a week, which led him to a regular meditation practice. This past spring, Stirman launched a meditation app aimed at athletes called Lucid. And this Texas native once owned an auto repair shop.
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| 1:12.9 | Hey guys my guest today was a very early employee at Twitter. Like so early that when he |
| 1:23.8 | joined there were only a few dozen people there. So really early employee at Twitter. He's |
| 1:31.0 | also done a bunch of other things including he once owned an auto repair shop. But the |
| 1:36.6 | reason why he's actually on the show is he's got a new meditation app aimed at athletes |
| 1:41.5 | called Lucid. His name is Jason Sturman. Here we go. |
| 1:48.4 | From ABC this is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. |
| 1:55.0 | Welcome man. Hey thanks Dan thanks for having me. My pleasure. Here's the question I ask |
| 1:59.0 | everybody. How and why did you start meditating? |
| 2:02.2 | Yep so I was maybe into my second or third year at Twitter and one of my good friends there |
| 2:08.8 | lovely lady Michelle Gale. She invited me to attend a meditation class at Twitter. Now |
| 2:14.3 | I grew up in Texas and the word meditation to me right away had some connotations that |
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