Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
Education and
A wicked problem is one where there are a plethora of ways to work towards the vision with multiple parties, people, systems, processes, and interactions that may impact or be impacted by the solution.
Exploring the problem space: a guide to building the right solution
Examples of the Bio-Psycho-Social perspectives on nature of stress. "People who are isolated and stressed are more likely to develop disease". Maté posits medicine as an ideology that emphasises the individual and speaks primarily about the causal factors and experience of early high-stress environments within communities . For example, how low... See more
Gabor Mate • Dr. Gabor Maté - Toxic Culture | Bioneers
If you had to set one metric to use as a leading indicator for yourself as a knowledge worker, the best I know might be the number of Evergreen notes written per day .
Andy Matuschak • Evergreen Notes
"If stories are linked with regularly repeated spatial practices, they become mutually supportive, and when a story becomes sedimented into the landscape, the story and the place dialectically help to construct and reproduce each other. Places help to recall stories that are associated with them, and places only exist (as named locales) by virtue... See more
Weidenfeld & Nicolson • You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World
10 lessons from the past year
- There has to be value: product market fit, there must be fundamental value for users
- Web3 and crypto are not consumer friendly: people want problems addressed regardless of labels or terminology — " Crypto will scale when the technology becomes the invisible enabler of what consumer actually care about "
- Incentive
Katelyn Donnelly • Web3: It's all still happening!
And so I think this is one of the reasons we, as a species, need the mediation of these stories — to create spaces where we can feel what it’s appropriate to feel and also acknowledge the complexity. We didn’t come to tie a bow on this and say that there’s a message. We came here to ask more questions and problematize it and interrogate it.
Krista Tippett • “You are not alone across time.”
energy same, details different (venn diagram)
1. playfulness: guard down, not protected, light-hearted
2. connection: shared experience, another person involved
3. flow: engaged and focused, lose track of time, in the zone
Catherine Price • Catherine Price: Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life
