Jay Matthews

Adam's notes Research shows that the kind of frustration he harnessed can fuel creativity. In other words, the curmudgeons on your team could be great untapped resources.

Things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. I must graft. I must water, as with lettuce. Ripening goes on in my mind. So I’m always working at a great many things at the same time.

This essay is a combination of personal reflection on the self and identity labels, the restrictions that label-based belonging imposes and the discomfort that freedom can bring. Included are good mental models, praise for values-based life navigation, and interpretations of popular culture.

Argues that everyone models, some just do so explicitly and others fool themselves into thinking that they do not model. The author provides compelling reasons for why modelling is important and why people should engage in people. (good companion for Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, very relevant for corporate environments). Core arguments... See more

Knutson goes on to explain the potential implications of embracing Future Self-Continuity, especially when the world seems bad, because of the way our ability to relate to our future selves shapes our decision making. Knutson suggests what this could look like at a group level.

5. repair as above, or allow to decay

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

Be pragmatic about the preparation and thinking required before a technology project and the risk is not in being to shallow during analysis, but in missing dimensions