Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
In one of my favorite podcast episodes, Tim Urban and Jim O’Shaughnessy talk about the benefits of viewing the world through models instead of beliefs —an idea that has stuck with me since I heard it and pretty much sealed the deal of an individual-first approach to my life.
sundus • I Am Me Before I Am Anything Else
empowerment levers:
- decision making discretion — autonomy, freedom, voice is important!
- when info is shared, that builds trust
- not incivility, positive organisations
- performance feedback
Gretchen Spreitzer • Necessary Conversation with Gretchen Spreitzer- Thriving at Work
The aim is to test the hypothesis and fail early, because it’s significantly cheaper and more efficient to make potential errors and test in prototyping than in a live solution.
Exploring the problem space: a guide to building the right solution
The Power of the Gift To name the world as gift is to feel one’s membership in the web of reciprocity. It makes you happy—and it makes you accountable... You’re likely to take much better care of the gift hat than the commodity hat, because it is knit of relationships. This is the power of gift thinking.
Emergence Magazine • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Inherent in this vision of “perfection” is the embrace of trial-and-error learning and experimentation as necessary aspects of any worthwhile human endeavor. Integrating this commitment to tolerating and learning from error as part of one’s ideal of self-perfection is, by the way, one of the most powerful correctives for neurotic perfectionism
Gena Gorlin • The quest for psychological perfection
The Great Work: Alchemy and the Power of Words – Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorthemergencemagazine.org
Therefore, creativity does not happen inside people’s heads, but in the interaction between a person’s thoughts and a sociocultural context. It is a systemic rather than an individual phenomenon.