Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
Definition: Quantitative investing proceeds by assembling, cleaning, and pooling vast amounts of data on prices, deals, valuations, etc. Advanced techniques are applied to study patterns of growth, failure, value evolution, and performance. Deep statistical insights can be teased out of data. The best systems learn and adjust their accuracy over... See more
Katelyn Donnelly • Quant comes to Venture Capital
Philosophy and
Finding Our Way with Rowen White — Finding Our Way Podcast
findingourwaypodcast.comGrief and
It’s hard to make a hit game. CEO Jason Citron tried to create a successful gaming studio twice. Both times he ended up expertly pivoting to gaming infrastructure plays. Discord is a product of one of those switch-ups. Bots give Discord defensibility. More than 3 million “bots” have been built on top of Discord’s API. Chat servers use these to... See more
Packy McCormick • Discord: Imagine a Place | The Generalist
“You are not alone across time.”
onbeing.orgLove and
The function of the erotic is to encourage excellence and to give us the strength to pursue it.
Audre Lorde • Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power (FULL Updated)
Our respondents unanimously agree that it is important to let problems simmer below the threshold of consciousness for a time.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
It was a cycle of numbers, push, numbers, not good enough, “coaching”, push, change, commission, percentages, tick back to zero, rinse, repeat. There was no space for the human. No space for deep thinkers, for empathy, for art, for creativity, i.e. the things that I considered important.