Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
- 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
Abundance This abundance of berries feels like a pure gift from the land. I have not earned, paid for, nor labored for them. There is no mathematics of worthiness that reckons I deserve them in any way.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Arguably, liberal individualism, social Darwinism, and free-market theory are transforms of one another, deriving their basic assumptions from the same atomistic and hierarchical worldview, all containing elitist principles (meritocracy, survival of the fittest, and plutocracy) and all with the consequent stratifications of race, gender, ethnicity,... See more
Gary B. Walls • Just a moment...
3. elaborate on this NEW structure, which now includes the most recent elaboration
Sarah Perry • Deep Laziness
Psychological-mindedness (the propensity to take responsibility for one’s problems and to look within oneself for the solutions) is considered by many to be an important criterion for analyzability. Historically, these criteria have operated to exclude many who might otherwise have seemed to be potential beneficiaries of psychoanalytic treatment. I... See more
Gary B. Walls • Just a moment...
Sir Patrick Geddes emphasized the need for transdisciplinary education as a facilitator of cultural change. He advocated ecologically and socially appropriate practices, and stressed the need for an integration of human settlements and livelihoods into the natural conditions of their particular region. According to Geddes, appropriate local action ... See more
Daniel Christian Wahl • Design and Planning for People in Place: Sir Patrick Geddes (1854–1932) and the Emergence of…
Comprehensive overview for businesses covering (almost) everything pertaining to solutions, from business models, to data flows, to journey mapping, to continuous integration. This is a great start for anyone looking to start a business or brush up on some core ideas for success.
Exploring the problem space: a guide to building the right solution
But part of the issue is, though, that anytime you quantify anything the world, you are taking high-level dimensional space and you're reducing it to a lower-level dimension. And you're going to lose data.
Daniel Gross • Finding Undiscovered Talent
Buried beneath the surface ambitions of millions of office and knowledge workers around the world are dreams of working on things that are more challenging. This is the inspiration deficit. Almost any path that can be mapped and planned in today’s world has likely been sucked dry of the challenge that people desire.