Jay Matthews

Comparison to public markets Quant in venture and throughout private asset markets looks different as agreements can be bespoke, fluid, and negotiated. There is often more significant uncertainty and risk. There is also less liquidity and readily available data than in public markets, but much of this changing and will continue to evolve.

On relationships with others in the field: “It’s a very important medium-term project to bring China into the international scientific community in a worthy way,” he says. “There’s a tremendous hunger for research and knowledge in science there. I wish it weren’t so politically fraught.”

This is why science, as a mode of inquiry, is fundamentally antithetical to all monolithic intellectual systems. In a beautiful essay, Feynman (1999) talks about the hard-won "freedom to doubt." It was born of a long and brutal struggle, and is essential to a functioning democracy. Intellectuals have a solemn duty to doubt, and to teach doubt.... See more

Shelby Lorman writes a cathartic essay on overwhelming tragedy and the lack of tools to process grief as a society—especially as tragedies compound. Lorman discusses the intersection between the internet and the history of US mass shootings up to the end of May 2022, offering a comparison with Nick Drnaso's graphic novel "Sabrina". To answer the... See more

I believe that we are in the early days of what will be remembered as one of the greatest times to be alive for hyper-curious people who are willing to be creative, connect with others, and share their ideas online.

Proposition 1. As rationalized institutional rules arise in given domains of work activity, formal organizations form and expand by incorporating these rules as structural elements.

While a multichannel experience is one that has the user engaging with various but unintegrated touch points, a true omnichannel experience means a user can successfully fulfil a single journey or task moving between various channels.