Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
One of the biggest challenges people have when embarking on an unconventional path is disconnecting from extrinsic markers of success and listening to internal motivational cues. On the default path, you can spend an entire career playing other people’s games. At first, people on a pathless path try to fill the lack of extrinsic goals with new ones... See more
Paul Millerd • The Great Creator Arbitrage Opportunity | #200 🥳
Persistence, power, or energy, are words we frequently use. I think that's important because you need to ensure the person's going to take many shots on goal. It's just your sense of how formidable they are to you. This may be a question you can ask yourself that reflects that on them. I think Paul Graham originally, Y Combinator, originally said
... See moreDaniel Gross • Finding Undiscovered Talent
Caveats to the "Underdog Strategy" When a really credible person tells you you can't succeed, in some sense, you basically internalize those expectations, your confidence drops, you actually believe them, and you don't perform as successfully. On the other hand, when you receive low expectations from someone who's not seen as credible, you perceive... See more
Adam Grant • The creative power of misfits
Like, if you think about this, I just want to lean in for a second and get us to think about like that, which the energy that, um, that is inside of a seed that can crack its seed coat, and roots can go down and these leaves can go up, is the same energy that swells, um, the lilac buds in the spring, and as the same essence, that then turns that... See more
Prentis Hemphill • Finding Our Way with Rowen White — Finding Our Way Podcast
In short, he has not dedicated his life to reaching a pre-defined goal, but he has rather chosen a way of life he KNOWS he will enjoy. The goal is absolutely secondary: it is the functioning toward the goal which is important.
Russell Max Simon • Hunter S. Thompson's Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
I think we need to, in this time, we need to reckon with the fact that in each and every single one of our bodies holds living memory of our ancestors coming into agreements with plants and animals, and those agreements are those, um, covenants that our ancestors, you know, wove themselves into with plants is that they said, "we'll give up a little... See more
Prentis Hemphill • Finding Our Way with Rowen White — Finding Our Way Podcast
how to have more fun:
1. focus on the ingredients: playfulness, connection, and flow
2. reduce distractions
3. increase connection by interacting more with others
1. step by step by step
4. find opportunities to rebel
1. playful deviance: break rules of responsible adulthood
5. prioritize it: make it a priority
1. carve out time in schedule
2. treat
... See moreCatherine Price • Catherine Price: Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life
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
From Ignorant Militance to Militant Ignorance: To me, however, the most important contribution of the modeling enterprise—as distinct from any particular model, or modeling technique—is that it enforces a scientific habit of mind , which I would characterize as one of militant ignorance—an iron commitment to "I don't know." That is, all scientific... See more