Jay Matthews

@jaymatthews

Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission

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Lse Festival 2019 | Brave New World [Audio]

We need to understand and accept that this is the psychological reality we are working with —and we need to embrace the work of changing it for the better

Gena Gorlin • The quest for psychological perfection

Platform durability: wide range of apps with low revenue concentration

Creator Economics: convert users to creators then retain and increase engagement

Growth Flywheel: virtuous cycle where more creation drives more revenue and a better product

Rex Woodbury • The Building Blocks of Tech

thriving: what we do to make changes in our environment that matter to use for our thriving and those we are responsible for co-construction of work environment so that it produces resources in the doing of the work

- resources: individuals more control over

- positive emotions (resource!)

- sense of meaning

- positive relationships

Gretchen Spreitzer • Necessary Conversation with Gretchen Spreitzer- Thriving at Work

I heard this quote that Elie Wiesel, actually, liked, of Hegel — that genuine tragedies are not conflicts between right and wrong, but conflicts between two rights. But I actually feel like the tragedy of our time is so many wounds, so many sufferings that can’t be equated, and yet they’re all so real. And we try to not address the suffering; we... See more

Krista Tippett • “You are not alone across time.”

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!

But I am my deeper and complete self when I build in community.

building in public gives emptiness

focus is on going and building deeper

additional context of mutual trust

psychological safety

Rosieland • Building in community

On investment in India: Young and entrepreneurial ecosystem that want to build well, traditionally frugal. Option to list in Singapore and then go public on US stock exchange.

Invest like the Best • Internet Scale Businesses

I look at it, certainly, inside relationships and how we reconcile these two fundamental needs that often spring from different sources and pull us in different directions. And I also think that love and desire belong, a little bit, to both of these sets of human needs, as well. So they relate, and they also conflict. And herein lies the mystery