Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
If you are familiar with the Ship of Theseus, you may relate to the philosophical dilemma of determining what physical parts remain a self if the body and self changes over time. Answering the question "What scientific concept ought to be more widely known?", Knutson explains the research on how humans tend to relate to their future selves, which... See more
Edge • Edge.org
Writing, art, creation: this is smithwork. You set your fire; you use your bellows, your pen, your paper, to heat it to the right temperature. You set your base metal in the flames, heat it until it is white. Then you begin your transformation.
Paul Kingsnorth • The Great Work: Alchemy and the Power of Words – Paul Kingsnorth
In particular, the choice to valorize disruption and innovation sits uneasily with both the actual process of university education and the needs of careers that people will actually have. It’s also bad for society on net.
Paul Musgrave • Move Slow and Fix Things
Grief is love. How can we hold this grief without holding each other? To bear witness to this moment of undoing is to find the strength and spiritual will to meet the dark and smoldering landscapes where we live. We can cry.
Terry Tempest Williams • The Pall Of Our Unrest
In his book Escape from Freedom, philosopher and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm argues that if man experiences freedom from authoritarian rule (e.g., government, religious institution) without exercising his freedom to express his individuality while integrating himself with the world, he will feel burdened with overwhelming feelings of loneliness,... See more
sundus • I Am Me Before I Am Anything Else
venture capital and
I think it can create a lot of energy in someone, precisely because, like a molecule searching for covalent bond, they're going to be looking for someone else to perform for, because they have that sense of insecurity and they don't know where they sit in the hierarchy. And they will need to find a way to validate their position.
Daniel Gross • Finding Undiscovered Talent
To sit together as a community and acknowledge the truth of war or the truth of addiction or the truth of domestic violence or the truth of COVID — inasmuch as it reduces our sense of isolation, and inasmuch as it’s able to put into words, grammar, and syntax things that we thought only we had ever thought, let alone ever expressed, I think it can... See more