Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
Peter Kropotkin spend 5 years observing animals in the wilds of Siberia, and having read Darwin, sought to replicate his opersations of the competitive struggle of species in the wild.
Gary B. Walls • Just a moment...
That self-connection shared is a measure of the joy which know myself to be capable of feeling, a reminder of my capacity for feeling.
Audre Lorde • Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power (FULL Updated)
We know that in markets and industries where there is a score, people do improve, and markets are efficient. For example, in sales, it's very clear what a good day is, it's very clear what a bad day is, and people are motivated to improve. You can measure who's great and who's not. If there's someone junior on the team who's really good, they're
... See moreDaniel Gross • Finding Undiscovered Talent
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
Gretchen Spreitzer • Necessary Conversation with Gretchen Spreitzer- Thriving at Work
"In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff."
The Marginalian • Einstein’s Dreams: Physicist Alan Lightman’s Poetic Exploration of Time and the Antidote to the Anxiety of Aliveness – The Marginalian
One of the biggest challenges people have when embarking on an unconventional path is disconnecting from extrinsic markers of success and listening to internal motivational cues. On the default path, you can spend an entire career playing other people’s games. At first, people on a pathless path try to fill the lack of extrinsic goals with new ones... See more
Paul Millerd • The Great Creator Arbitrage Opportunity | #200 🥳
Confessions of an Investment Banker Turned VC | MHV | Monk's Hill Ventures
Ganesh Ramakrishnanmonkshill.com
A step-by-step recipe for beauty:
Sarah Perry • Deep Laziness
In the spirit of its time, traditional psychoanalysis consisted of an authoritarian analyst–patient relationship and promulgated values such as a scientific approach to human affairs, the affirmation of paternalistic gender roles, individual achievement, personal responsibility, and a strongly bounded self.