Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
- Evergreen notes should be atomic
- Evergreen notes should be concept-oriented
- Evergreen notes should be densely linked
- Prefer associative ontologies to hierarchical taxonomies
- Write notes for yourself by default, disregarding audience
Andy Matuschak • Evergreen Notes
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
For a long time their relationship operated on a contract of mutuality. They were not to express feelings or needs that exceeded what they had been allocated. They were not to be irrational, insensitive, or greedy. Now, however, they both were making strong claims. They made demands on each other that they didn’t want to give up on. There was a lot... See more
Esther Perel • Mating in Captivity
I want people to realize that there is an unprecedented opportunity available to people right now. If you are willing to pay some economic and status costs in the short term you can take advantage of this temporary arbitrage opportunity. Worst case, you can return to your job with a little more energy. Best case? You might stumble upon a way of... See more
Paul Millerd • The Great Creator Arbitrage Opportunity | #200 🥳
And so I think this is one of the reasons we, as a species, need the mediation of these stories — to create spaces where we can feel what it’s appropriate to feel and also acknowledge the complexity. We didn’t come to tie a bow on this and say that there’s a message. We came here to ask more questions and problematize it and interrogate it.
Krista Tippett • “You are not alone across time.”
[on Wilczek's current project]: weaving together threads from across the frontiers of knowledge, optimistically pushing ever deeper, never satisfied with an incomplete understanding of the universe and all the potential it holds for us. And having a great time doing it.
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
The Power of the Gift To name the world as gift is to feel one’s membership in the web of reciprocity. It makes you happy—and it makes you accountable... You’re likely to take much better care of the gift hat than the commodity hat, because it is knit of relationships. This is the power of gift thinking.
Emergence Magazine • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
fun is the distillation o
f life's energy