Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
Scalability is everything with internet scale businesses. An internet scale business is one with audiences around the world and focus on reducing friction. Look at 1. Scale of users (retention), 2. Time spent per day, 3. Supply: quality of tools to onboard advertisers.
Invest like the Best • Internet Scale Businesses
Having an institution geared to producing really top-rate people who play within the system is not going to set the world on fire, but maybe we don’t want a world on fire.
Paul Musgrave • Move Slow and Fix Things
But I don’t think obsessive hustling makes good literature, or good writers, because writing is only the second part of the work. Most of the work is just existing. Writing, like, I suspect, any creative art, is just an attempt to transcribe infinity. And you have to sink into infinity slowly.
Daniel Southwell • The Art of Writing a Novel Slowly
find the centres
Sarah Perry • Deep Laziness
power relationship: we use management language to stop looking at power, all the language changes going on
- powerful: experience and skill in high demand makes company more willing to work on the individual's terms. have up to date skills
Gretchen Spreitzer • Necessary Conversation with Gretchen Spreitzer- Thriving at Work
"We’re seeing a huge shattering of life itself. And yet, having been with Rilke, his trust in life is still with me. And so I trust being with life, even though life — the web of life might crumble, but then I’m still with it. I’ll be with it anyway, even in the crumbling."
On Being • Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you’ve got inside you.’ | The On Being Project
Geertz (1973) argues that the Enlightenment view of human nature placed such an overbearing emphasis on universal characteristics that it relegated the differential effects of culture to secondary status.
Gary B. Walls • Just a moment...
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