Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
If our lives is all we get to experience, it's the only thing that matters
Kurzgesagt • Optimistic Nihilism
Creativity can be observed only in the interrelations of a system made up of three main parts. The first of these is the domain, which consists of a set of symbolic rules and procedures. The second component of creativity is the field, which includes all the individuals who act as gatekeepers to the domain. It is their job to decide whether a new... See more
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Proposition 3. Organizations that incorporate societally legitimated rationalized elements in their formal structures maximize their legitimacy and increase their resources and survival capabilities
American Journal of Sociology • Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony on JSTOR
On Hiring: look for these 4 qualities, the rest can be taught
- Very deep love for learning: love learning and will do it for free, being intellectually curious
- Incredible work ethic: can test for this
- Investing is an EQ business not an IQ business, about mental flexibility: persistence and grit: beaten down and pucked in the face, seen hardship, come
Invest like the Best • Internet Scale Businesses
Narratives move the world. For early-stage founders, an impactful story is magnetic to talent, capital, and customers. Generalist Capital exists to help great entrepreneurs create and capitalize on narrative momentum.
Mario Gabriele • Generalist Capital: In Search of Epics | The Generalist
Advantages of supplemental quant analysis
- Easier to scale than traditional VC
- Allows for fast, pre-emptive decision making — identify deals before they come to market, use robust dataset and proven grameworks
- Reduce Type I and Type II error: Bias and patterns of under- and out-performance are hard to detect. Quant systems can identify and then make
Katelyn Donnelly • Quant comes to Venture Capital
Sir Patrick Geddes emphasized the need for transdisciplinary education as a facilitator of cultural change. He advocated ecologically and socially appropriate practices, and stressed the need for an integration of human settlements and livelihoods into the natural conditions of their particular region. According to Geddes, appropriate local action... See more
Daniel Christian Wahl • Design and Planning for People in Place: Sir Patrick Geddes (1854–1932) and the Emergence of…
Thriving at work
feel like making progress, positive trajectory, growing not burning out
**Measurement dimensions**
- vitality: feel energised, aliveness, work is not depleting but creating energy in the doing of the work
- learning component: growing, getting better, trying new thing