Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
" We cannot make sense of these events, nor are we meant to process so much loss and be expected to simply keep our heads down and keep moving, show up to work, show up for others – and yet that is exactly what we are asked to do, what we have to do.. . And remember we don’t have time to mourn, that this happens so often it isn’t even a question,... See more
Shelby Lorman • how do you cope?
I work in a state of passion and frenzy. When I begin a canvas, I obey a physical impulse, a need to act; it’s like a physical discharge.
Joan Miro • I Work Like a Gardener
And probably, the most predictive one we have is, "What is something weird or unusual you built or did early on in life?" I find it so astonishing in how polar it is. Someone will tell you about, "I accidentally got my high school teacher fired." And then someone will say something incredibly bland. "I did a 10-mile hike." To me, it really explains
... See moreDaniel Gross • Finding Undiscovered Talent
To work like a gardener was to create life itself—the autonomous life of a visual universe that, in the artist’s words, was a world set in motion.
Joan Miro • I Work Like a Gardener
Scalability is everything with internet scale businesses. An internet scale business is one with audiences around the world and focus on reducing friction. Look at 1. Scale of users (retention), 2. Time spent per day, 3. Supply: quality of tools to onboard advertisers.
Invest like the Best • Internet Scale Businesses
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
Steve Jobs once said, “ The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller . The storyteller sets the vision, values, and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.”
Mario Gabriele • Generalist Capital: In Search of Epics | The Generalist
Network: group of interconnected people or system of things