Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
Trends: thriving in the new world of work (annual review on org psych)
- key things changing around alt work arrangements
- fixed schedule, full-time work, at firm's place of business
- changing based on the kind of work
- if people have control over: when they work, where they work, conditions in which contracts are solidified, can have different
... See moreGretchen Spreitzer • Necessary Conversation with Gretchen Spreitzer- Thriving at Work
Historically, however, psychoanalysis emerged in a specifically Western tradition of intellectual and social values. It is based on a philosophy of liberal individualism and thus has proved to be a therapeutic technique exhibiting constraints that have limited its applicability across cultures and classes.
Gary B. Walls • Just a moment...
The view from L1: The origins of earth and a broad view of how the different geographies and atmospheric down to biospheric layers work together.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson • You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World
But part of the issue is, though, that anytime you quantify anything the world, you are taking high-level dimensional space and you're reducing it to a lower-level dimension. And you're going to lose data.
Daniel Gross • Finding Undiscovered Talent
Risks to the trend
- LPs too slow to react, VCs lack incentives to admit limitations in current processes
- Poor quant performance
- Downturn in private markets
Katelyn Donnelly • Quant comes to Venture Capital
The upside is so powerful that it often masks the downside, which is why so many people find themselves in a state of automaton conformity:
- we gain a community that (superficially) makes us feel secure; we do not feel isolated or out of place or weird;
- we are provided with (and rewarded for taking) shortcuts for what to believe in, what to do, and
sundus • I Am Me Before I Am Anything Else
"A lot of people no longer do work that has any meaning to them, since humans are productive creatures... we are meant to create. When we do work that is not creative, that doesn't reflect who we are, that imposes depression, anxiety, a sense of meaninglessness. When we have a sense of meaninglessness, we will want to substitute the meaninglessness... See more
Gabor Mate • Dr. Gabor Maté - Toxic Culture | Bioneers
Core argument: This paper argues that the formal structures of many organizations in postindustrial society (Bell 1973) dramatically reflect the myths of their institutional environments instead of the demands of their work activities. Societal / institutional complexity has added to the core activities needed to perform a productive act of labour.... See more