Jay Matthews

@jaymatthews

Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission

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Beauty as a Compass for Truth

onbeing.org

Science and

The internet will not survive.

Sam Kriss • The internet is already over

Fun is a feeling, not an activity, there's an element of serendipity: easy to recognise (illuminated from within)

- visceral sense of lightne

ss and joy (radiant)

Catherine Price • Catherine Price: Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life

“Horror is something perfectly natural: the mind’s emptiness. A thought is taking shape, then suddenly it notices that there is nothing more to think. Whereupon it crashes to the ground like a figure in a comic strip who suddenly realizes that he has been walking on air.”

ECW Press • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

on erotic intelligence

At first, I just thought — I understood it intuitively, but really, there was nothing substantive and scientific behind it. I did understand that animals have sex. It is the instinct. It is the base. But

we have an erotic mind. And that erotic mind, it is infinite. And eroticism thrives on the ritual and the celebration

Krista Tippett • Esther Perel — The Erotic Is an Antidote to Death

One to One: On maps, cartography and our relationship with geographical enquiry over time stretching from ancient Babylon to GIS software. With increasingly sophisticated tools to build maps, "we have the means to comprehend the future.

"We are each at the centre of our own map... We are all innate mapmakers... maps [are the] mediators between an... See more

Weidenfeld & Nicolson • You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World

Future self-continuity may even operate at the group level, since cultures that value respect for elders tend to save more, while nations with longer histories tend to have cleaner environments.

Edge • Edge.org

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

Lisa Bodell's executive exercise to "Kill your own company" I challenged each of those groups to identify who their number one competitor was. And then I said, "Pretend you're that competition. Pretend you have that hat on. I want you to put yourself out of business." I mean -- the room lit on fire. They were so excited, because I gave them... See more