Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
The function of the erotic is to encourage excellence and to give us the strength to pursue it.
Audre Lorde • Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power (FULL Updated)
Metrics for success is a fascinating problem, because at the end of your day, you're planting seeds. And it'll take a decade or so for it to grow into its tree. We have these moments at Pioneer where we're not quite sure, are we successful or not? Companies have, at the end of the day, a very short-term feedback loop to chase, which is revenue,... See more
Daniel Gross • Finding Undiscovered Talent
A. Trust your instinct
Ganesh Ramakrishnan • Confessions of an Investment Banker Turned VC | MHV | Monk's Hill Ventures
Comparison to public markets Quant in venture and throughout private asset markets looks different as agreements can be bespoke, fluid, and negotiated. There is often more significant uncertainty and risk. There is also less liquidity and readily available data than in public markets, but much of this changing and will continue to evolve.
Katelyn Donnelly • Quant comes to Venture Capital
Yet when you have created a simulation-like environment that is immune to reality, this is what happens. You refuse to believe what everyone else can easily see. It is sort of like the old folk tale of the Emperor’s New Clothes. It is about the power of cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias to avoid facing reality. The current obsession of... See more
Ed Brenegar • Leadership and the Culture of Simulation.
Exploring the problem space: a guide to building the right solution
culture.entelect.co.za
Startup Growth and
cannot have fun if you're not in flow: good for us
fun is the
cause of human thriving
Catherine Price • Catherine Price: Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life
We must also include in our clinical theories the psychological misery occasioned by actual and often ongoing experiences of social oppression. In part, such socialized misery may be internalized and perpetuated by an individual’s use of mechanisms such as identification with the aggressor, dissociation, denial, and projective identification, which... See more
Gary B. Walls • Just a moment...
These forces, in turn, were accelerated by the increasingly winner-take-all dynamics of the economy that were unleashed by the demise of traditional industries and regulations.