Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
The creative power of misfits
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The example of how we already participate in the gift economy is given with the service berry:
Emergence Magazine • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
The story of Pixar and The Incredibles—creating animated humans when no one had done it well before. As the story goes, when the movie didn't come out as expected, Brad Bird recruited the "black sheep" of Pixar, people who were unhappy with the status quo. Brad Bird I want people who are disgruntled because they have a better way of doing things... See more
Adam Grant • The creative power of misfits
This may be an inverse-U-shaped curve. As you can imagine, very early on, it's a picker's game, meaning, for example, with Pioneer, extremely early. We can pick whoever we want. Very late stage in the cap table, it's also a picker's game. I mean, obviously the company's public for the most part. Hedge funds are in the game of picking, not in the
... See moreDaniel Gross • Finding Undiscovered Talent
Relational psychoanalytic models, sometimes referred to as intersubjective, do not view individuals as discrete centers of experience and action; instead, they assert that all self-experience is ontologically social. They challenge the “myth of the isolated mind” (Stolorow and Atwood, 1992, p. 7) and suggest that psychological experience is derived... See more
Gary B. Walls • Just a moment...
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
Now the questions begin. What am I free to do alone and what do I have to share?
Esther Perel • Mating in Captivity
1.start with existing centers or create strong ones that harmonize with the environment