Jay Matthews

Risks to the trend

1. LPs too slow to react, VCs lack incentives to admit limitations in current processes


2. Poor quant performance 


3. Downturn in private markets 

After letting go of the guilt associated with “losing” core parts of myself, I quickly realized how nurturing it was to function as me first. My curiosity skyrocketed because I felt safe questioning; I became less dogmatic and even grew proud of the ability to change my mind when presented with new information; my sense of self was no longer... See more

Using dramatic techniques to improve learning through 'meta-process' enhancement. Psychology has long employed drama techniques for therapy (e.g. Gestalt) and the author suggests that we might do the same for learning. Key focus on embodiment, integration, reflection on the experience, and gives some examples of employing this method, which tends... See more

"Trying to make sense of the senseless, to process the unthinkable as it’s happening, the news cycle is already moving on, you haven’t stopped crying about the other recent tragedies, don’t know how to hold all this, your mind like a vase that is leaking, trying to find some way to contain all of this but it slips out, into everything, onto every... See more

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.

How do we bear witness? How do we bid farewell?

Scalable future self-continuity interventions may open up new channels for enhancing health, education, and wealth.

"Behind every civilisation is an understanding of people, places and the environment."

With children and with works of art, there’s no recipe that will take the place of dwelling alongside and knitting your beings together. There’s no success or failure, pride or disappointment, that will justify or invalidate those years of dwelling.