Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
I work in a state of passion and frenzy. When I begin a canvas, I obey a physical impulse, a need to act; it’s like a physical discharge.
Joan Miro • I Work Like a Gardener
Fun is a feeling, not an activity, there's an element of serendipity: easy to recognise (illuminated from within)
- visceral sense of lightne
ss and joy (radiant)
Catherine Price • Catherine Price: Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life
Love and
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.
Joan Miro • I Work Like a Gardener
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
sundus • I Am Me Before I Am Anything Else
Where the production organisation has strong output controls and depends on managing relational networks, the institutionalised organisation has ambiguous outputs and depends on confidence and stability it achieve by following the rules of its environment—conforming both to the opinions of external constituents as well as the demands on internal... See more