Jay Matthews

@jaymatthews

Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission

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Things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. I must graft. I must water, as with lettuce. Ripening goes on in my mind. So I’m always working at a great many things at the same time.

Joan Miro • I Work Like a Gardener

That self-connection shared is a measure of the joy which know myself to be capable of feeling, a reminder of my capacity for feeling.

Audre Lorde • Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power (FULL Updated)

wild to think people are out there just... winging it 😅

will allred • 💜 Will Allred on LinkedIn: ... just a reminder 25-50 word cold emails are getting 67% more replies… | 155 comments

Because desire is to own the wanting. That’s one way of looking at it. And in order to own something, there needs to be a sovereign self that is free to choose and, of course, feels worthy of wanting and feels worthy of receiving. That’s why desire is so intimately connected with a sense of self-worth.

The On Being Project • Esther Perel — The Erotic Is an Antidote to Death

"Five years from now, what will your future self think of your current self? Will you even be the same person?"

Edge • Edge.org

But I don’t think obsessive hustling makes good literature, or good writers, because writing is only the second part of the work. Most of the work is just existing. Writing, like, I suspect, any creative art, is just an attempt to transcribe infinity. And you have to sink into infinity slowly.