Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
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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
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
The stress of safety, poverty, and loss stops us from seeing and feeling, it leaves us alienated from ourselves and the world. The four levels of alienation mentioned in this talk are alienation from : 1. Our work, 2. Others, 3. Nature, 4. Ourselves.
Gabor Mate • Dr. Gabor Maté - Toxic Culture | Bioneers
Proposition 3. Organizations that incorporate societally legitimated rationalized elements in their formal structures maximize their legitimacy and increase their resources and survival capabilities
American Journal of Sociology • Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony on JSTOR
On relationships with others in the field: “It’s a very important medium-term project to bring China into the international scientific community in a worthy way,” he says. “There’s a tremendous hunger for research and knowledge in science there. I wish it weren’t so politically fraught.”
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
Now the questions begin. What am I free to do alone and what do I have to share?
Esther Perel • Mating in Captivity
As I said, to put our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we do not strive to be firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. WE STRIVE TO BE OURSELVES.