Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
Hollow Abstraction:
An abstraction that sounds coherent, but lacks a specific referent
Most people are easy targets for HAs, because they draw conclusions from abstractions without checking if they're hollow.
Hollow Abstraction is the mental model that best... See more
nametwitter.comWriting, 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
Marriage and
Digital Wellness and
Home - BELONG: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life
Radha Agrawal • 3 highlights
belongbook.comI think it can create a lot of energy in someone, precisely because, like a molecule searching for covalent bond, they're going to be looking for someone else to perform for, because they have that sense of insecurity and they don't know where they sit in the hierarchy. And they will need to find a way to validate their position.
Daniel Gross • Finding Undiscovered Talent
5. repair as above, or allow to decay
Sarah Perry • Deep Laziness
The learning cannot be isolated within a script. As Piaget says, ‘it touches everything’ (Gardner, 1982:352).
David Wright • Just a moment...
Our respondents unanimously agree that it is important to let problems simmer below the threshold of consciousness for a time.