Jay Matthews

Modern relationships are cauldrons of contradictory longings: safety and excitement, grounding and transcendence, the comfort of love and the heat of passion. We want it all, and we want it with one person. Reconciling the domestic and the erotic is a delicate balancing act that we achieve intermittently at best. It requires knowing your partner... See more

Advantages of supplemental quant analysis

1. Easier to scale than traditional VC


2. Allows for fast, pre-emptive decision making — identify deals before they come to market, use robust dataset and proven grameworks 


3. Reduce Type I and Type II error: Bias and patterns of under- and out-performance are hard to detect. Quant systems can identify and then make

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Neuropolis: Our relationship with cities from Mumbai to Manhattan. As our cities change, they inspire a change in us: "A new generation of explorers, cyclists and psychogeographers are remapping urban landscapes through non-places. In this expanding urban maze, waymarks — as ever — are key to community cohesion ." Cities are described as "an... See more

That self-connection shared is a measure of the joy which know myself to be capable of feeling, a reminder of my capacity for feeling.

"We need political leaders, business leaders and policymakers who understand the interactive nature of the planet's systems and who recognise the geographical nature of the challenges we all face. The courage and ambition of those leaders will depend upon the demands made of them by us. So we need to be informed, too . Never has geography been so... See more

Alright, I thought. Writing is about working harder and faster than everyone else. It’s about overwhelming the world with the sheer volume of words you can churn out. It’s about hitting wordcounts and it’s definitely about making fun of anyone that mentions “writer’s block.” ... I loved writing and I was doing what they said you have to do if you... See more

Knutson goes on to explain the potential implications of embracing Future Self-Continuity, especially when the world seems bad, because of the way our ability to relate to our future selves shapes our decision making. Knutson suggests what this could look like at a group level.

"Our ability to engage with geographical science will determine our future."