Jay Matthews

An interview with the translators of Rilke's Letter to a Young Poet. This interview covers our relationships with others, with ourselves, and to the earth. From 120 years ago, some of Rilke's notions are still concepts we are unpacking and can continue to sit with. How should we love? How should we sit with the uncertainty of the future? How can we... See more

Anybody, no matter what your ideology is, or, you know, your connection to the earth, you are held in that web of relationship, if you are living and breathing and eating. Um, but the insanity is that we don't recognize it, right. We can't even see that we're being held by all of these beings.

Caveats to the "Underdog Strategy" When a really credible person tells you you can't succeed, in some sense, you basically internalize those expectations, your confidence drops, you actually believe them, and you don't perform as successfully. On the other hand, when you receive low expectations from someone who's not seen as credible, you perceive... See more

"If stories are linked with regularly repeated spatial practices, they become mutually supportive, and when a story becomes sedimented into the landscape, the story and the place dialectically help to construct and reproduce each other. Places help to recall stories that are associated with them, and places only exist (as named locales) by virtue... See more

"In fact, one of the biggest mistakes I have made in my life, and I think a lot of investors, is be scared by what the big platforms will do."