Jay Matthews

how to have more fun: 

1. focus on the ingredients: playfulness, connection, and flow 

2. reduce distractions

3. increase connection by interacting more with others 

1. step by step by step 

4. find opportunities to rebel 

1. playful deviance: break rules of responsible adulthood

5. prioritize it: make it a priority 

1. carve out time in schedule 

2. treat

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These are powerful questions and I the version of it I would ask you today is:

1. What are you most curious about?


2. What is your unique perspective or way of helping in this domain?


3. Given the infinite resources available to you today, why are you doing nothing about this?

This institution the Salk Institute for Biological Studies was established with the idea in mind that there would be a crucible for creativity, a center for the study of creativity to explore with individuals who have exhibited that quality in the course of their lives.

 One thing I'm always on the lookout for with people. Are they moving quickly? Are they evolving quickly? In my view, at the end of the day, when you're betting on a founder, especially if the market's not super clear, what you're trying to do is, you're trying to predict that, that particular person will have as many shots on goal as possible,

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Proposition 6. Institutionalized organizations seek to minimize inspection and evaluation by both internal managers and external constituents.

The currency in a gift economy is relationship, which is expressed as gratitude, as interdependence and the ongoing cycles of reciprocity. Anthropological ideas mentioned in the article point towards this as being a way of sustaining life in various communities.

The upside is so powerful that it often masks the downside, which is why so many people find themselves in a state of automaton conformity:

• we gain a community that (superficially) makes us feel secure; we do not feel isolated or out of place or weird;


• we are provided with (and rewarded for taking) shortcuts for what to believe in, what to do, and

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