Jay Matthews

And so the have-nots obediently bought soap with the money provided for that purpose by the progressive authorities. As paupers, they had shocked the official mind with repulsive, but for that very reason palpable, images; now, as a reclaimed and cleansed “poorer class”, their life became so unimaginably abstract that they could be forgotten.... See more

Creativity can be observed only in the interrelations of a system made up of three main parts. The first of these is the domain, which consists of a set of symbolic rules and procedures. The second component of creativity is the field, which includes all the individuals who act as gatekeepers to the domain. It is their job to decide whether a new... See more

But  I am my deeper and complete self when I build in community.

• building in public gives emptiness


• focus is on going and building deeper


• additional context of mutual trust


• psychological safety

Advantages of supplemental quant analysis

1. Easier to scale than traditional VC


2. Allows for fast, pre-emptive decision making — identify deals before they come to market, use robust dataset and proven grameworks 


3. Reduce Type I and Type II error: Bias and patterns of under- and out-performance are hard to detect. Quant systems can identify and then make

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4. repeat until done

We seek intimacy to protect ourselves from feeling alone; and yet creating the distance essential to eroticism means stepping back from the comfort of our partner and feeling more alone.

Anybody, no matter what your ideology is, or, you know, your connection to the earth, you are held in that web of relationship, if you are living and breathing and eating. Um, but the insanity is that we don't recognize it, right. We can't even see that we're being held by all of these beings.

This is why art matters: because it dredges our psychic depths in ways that even the artist may not understand. “The arts,” writes the Zen poet Gary Snyder, following Levi-Strauss, “are the wilderness areas of the imagination, surviving like national parks in the midst of civilized minds.” Strange things grow in the wilderness; unusual plants... See more