Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
The takeaway is that you can take it slow. Creating online, doing your own thing, and dabbling here and there might dramatically expand your possibilities in the future.
Paul Millerd • The Great Creator Arbitrage Opportunity | #200 🥳
Participant interview: I felt like my life was very directed in one way, but when I came here and communicated with everyone else and heard their ideas and their ways of thinking, I found there was more that I could offer. In a way, I have different paths going off my tree, with more branches and that kind of thing.
David Wright • Just a moment...
It’s hard to make a hit game. CEO Jason Citron tried to create a successful gaming studio twice. Both times he ended up expertly pivoting to gaming infrastructure plays. Discord is a product of one of those switch-ups. Bots give Discord defensibility. More than 3 million “bots” have been built on top of Discord’s API. Chat servers use these to... See more
Packy McCormick • Discord: Imagine a Place | The Generalist
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
Shelby Lorman • how do you cope?
But to me, what the Greeks knew and what these other ancient authors, I think, tapped into is something we’re only now finding words to articulate again, which is that betrayal is the wound that cuts the deepest. You can call it whatever you want, moral distress, moral injury, but really, it’s betrayal — feeling abandoned or betrayed, or betraying... See more
Krista Tippett • “You are not alone across time.”
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Explore how seeds operate as gateways to our lineage and how our current disconnection manifests as grief.
Prentis Hemphill • Finding Our Way with Rowen White — Finding Our Way Podcast
3 elements of flexibility in work contracts
- job security is being eroded
organisation wants talent, but freedom to decide when and where they have that talent and let it go (agile)
- more permeable boundaries: temp work and boundaries
- nonstandard jobs capture net employment growth
Gretchen Spreitzer • Necessary Conversation with Gretchen Spreitzer- Thriving at Work
"Long ago, before the Great Clock, time was measured by changes in heavenly bodies: the slow sweep of stars across the night sky, the arc of the sun and variation in light, the waxing and waning of the moon, tides, seasons. Time was measured also by heartbeats, the rhythms of drowsiness and sleep, the recurrence of hunger, the menstrual cycles of... See more