Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
And so that's the power of those intimate immensities is that they carry, they encode so much that that can be ingested and, and taken into our bodies. Um, even just being in the garden and having our hands in the soil and, and, um, receiving their sensory, um, messages that they carry to us. Um, it's just profound healing.
Prentis Hemphill • Finding Our Way with Rowen White — Finding Our Way Podcast
“The tenant’s visiting card is his window-pane.”
ECW Press • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
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
On anxiety or curiosity as responses to a partner's 'other'-ness
I mean, faced with the unknown of our partners, we can either be anxious — and this is true with the unknown of life. We can be anxious, we can want to close the gap, we can want to seek the familiar in that space, or we can leave that space open and respond
to it with curiosity. And
... See moreThe On Being Project • Esther Perel — The Erotic Is an Antidote to Death
[on Wilczek's current project]: weaving together threads from across the frontiers of knowledge, optimistically pushing ever deeper, never satisfied with an incomplete understanding of the universe and all the potential it holds for us. And having a great time doing it.
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
A news story is released, and many people will immediately respond in very predictable and scripted ways. Typically, their response is almost verbatim what their affiliated groups (e.g., religious, political) tout. If they are silent, they risk being labeled as ignorant at best or affiliates of the “opposing” group (along with a string of character... See more
sundus • I Am Me Before I Am Anything Else
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
Katelyn Donnelly • Quant comes to Venture Capital
More often it is the defensive, counterfeit form of that pursuit: an exercise in going through the motions of “pursuing excellence” in order to escape the guilt and anxiety imposed by our inner drill sergean t, or simply to numb the uncomfortable awareness of lacking a genuine ideal.
Gena Gorlin • The quest for psychological perfection
3. elaborate on this NEW structure, which now includes the most recent elaboration