Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
A community built blueprint to help new people, a sort of Web3 Wiki for onboarding. Featuring:
Khufu • A Web3 Blueprint
Stepping on this blank zone in October 2019, I wanted to know if I, as a modern Homo Sapien, have the animal instinct to follow the same path of my traces. The route that Truku people migrated to east had already met the colonial modernity at the end of the 19th century. The colonizers established an army to conquer Truku tribes in taking the very... See more
Cetus Chin-Yun Kuo • Cartographer
Geertz (1973) argues that the Enlightenment view of human nature placed such an overbearing emphasis on universal characteristics that it relegated the differential effects of culture to secondary status.
Gary B. Walls • Just a moment...
The Response Gratitude and reciprocity are the currency of a gift economy, and they have the remarkable property of multiplying with every exchange, their energy concentrating as they pass from hand to hand, a truly renewable resource.
Emergence Magazine • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
thriving: what we do to make changes in our environment that matter to use for our thriving and those we are responsible for co-construction of work environment so that it produces resources in the doing of the work
- resources: individuals more control over
- positive emotions (resource!)
- sense of meaning
- positive relationships
Gretchen Spreitzer • Necessary Conversation with Gretchen Spreitzer- Thriving at Work
Modern relationships are cauldrons of contradictory longings: safety and excitement, grounding and transcendence, the comfort of love and the heat of passion. We want it all, and we want it with one person. Reconciling the domestic and the erotic is a delicate balancing act that we achieve intermittently at best. It requires knowing your partner... See more
Esther Perel • Mating in Captivity
Opportunities:
- Quants-as-a-service companies
- Talent identification
- Dedicated funds employing this strategy
- Artificial Intelligence at the table model
Katelyn Donnelly • Quant comes to Venture Capital
On early scientific discoveries: To peer into the nucleus and discover a new and important phenomenon that no one had ever glimpsed “was like the trembling of the veil that poets write about,” Wilczek says. “Something was stirring deep in the heart of nature.”
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
On complementarity: Near the end of A Beautiful Question, Wilczek devotes a few pages to complementarity—the idea that no single description of a phenomenon can be complete. The great Danish physicist Niels Bohr introduced complementarity to resolve a problem bedeviling the developers of quantum mechanics in the 1920s: in some cases, it appeared to... See more