Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
It’s hard to write notes that are worth developing over time . These principles help: ( the below are all linked notes and concepts)
Andy Matuschak • Evergreen Notes
And there’s the crux. Is it worth giving up what I have to look for something better? I don’t know— is it? Who can make that decision but you? But even by DECIDING TO LOOK, you go a long way toward making the choice.
Russell Max Simon • Hunter S. Thompson's Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
Through fantasy we repair, compensate, and transform. For a few moments, we rise above the reality of life and, subsequently, the reality of death.
Esther Perel • Mating in Captivity
Proposition 2. The more modernized the society, the more extended the rationalized institutional structure in given domains and the greater the number of domains containing rationalized institutions.
American Journal of Sociology • Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony on JSTOR
An Economy of Abundance:
Emergence Magazine • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
"A word of warning one institutional investor gave me was that emerging managers often deploy too quickly."
Mario Gabriele • Generalist Capital: In Search of Epics | The Generalist
Buried beneath the surface ambitions of millions of office and knowledge workers around the world are dreams of working on things that are more challenging. This is the inspiration deficit. Almost any path that can be mapped and planned in today’s world has likely been sucked dry of the challenge that people desire.
Paul Millerd • The Great Creator Arbitrage Opportunity | #200 🥳
Trends: thriving in the new world of work (annual review on org psych)
- key things changing around alt work arrangements
- fixed schedule, full-time work, at firm's place of business
- changing based on the kind of work
- if people have control over: when they work, where they work, conditions in which contracts are solidified, can have different
... See moreGretchen Spreitzer • Necessary Conversation with Gretchen Spreitzer- Thriving at Work
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