Jay Matthews

@jaymatthews

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

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But part of the issue is, though, that anytime you quantify anything the world, you are taking high-level dimensional space and you're reducing it to a lower-level dimension. And you're going to lose data.

Daniel Gross • Finding Undiscovered Talent

Persistence, power, or energy, are words we frequently use. I think that's important because you need to ensure the person's going to take many shots on goal. It's just your sense of how formidable they are to you. This may be a question you can ask yourself that reflects that on them. I think Paul Graham originally, Y Combinator, originally said

Daniel Gross • Finding Undiscovered Talent

The learning cannot be isolated within a script. As Piaget says, ‘it touches everything’ (Gardner, 1982:352).

David Wright • Just a moment...

Writing, art, creation: this is smithwork. You set your fire; you use your bellows, your pen, your paper, to heat it to the right temperature. You set your base metal in the flames, heat it until it is white. Then you begin your transformation.

Paul Kingsnorth • The Great Work: Alchemy and the Power of Words – Paul Kingsnorth

On beauty in science: “He’s a very intuitive person,” says Niemi. “He sees the equations, but he sees beyond the equation. He thinks immediately, does this make sense in a wider context? … He smells the equation, if it smells good or not. Or if it has the beauty.”

Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation

"Trying to make sense of the senseless, to process the unthinkable as it’s happening, the news cycle is already moving on, you haven’t stopped crying about the other recent tragedies, don’t know how to hold all this, your mind like a vase that is leaking, trying to find some way to contain all of this but it slips out, into everything, onto every... See more

Shelby Lorman • how do you cope?

I look at it, certainly, inside relationships and how we reconcile these two fundamental needs that often spring from different sources and pull us in different directions. And I also think that love and desire belong, a little bit, to both of these sets of human needs, as well. So they relate, and they also conflict. And herein lies the mystery

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

Ben Kohlmann Ben wrote an essay for a military news site. He explained his frustration and challenged the Navy to start supporting and promoting junior people with disruptive ideas.

Adam Grant • The creative power of misfits

This is why art matters: because it dredges our psychic depths in ways that even the artist may not understand. “The arts,” writes the Zen poet Gary Snyder, following Levi-Strauss, “are the wilderness areas of the imagination, surviving like national parks in the midst of civilized minds.” Strange things grow in the wilderness; unusual plants... See more