Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
"We need political leaders, business leaders and policymakers who understand the interactive nature of the planet's systems and who recognise the geographical nature of the challenges we all face. The courage and ambition of those leaders will depend upon the demands made of them by us. So we need to be informed, too . Never has geography been so... See more
Weidenfeld & Nicolson • You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World
energy same, details different (venn diagram)
1. playfulness: guard down, not protected, light-hearted
2. connection: shared experience, another person involved
3. flow: engaged and focused, lose track of time, in the zone
Catherine Price • Catherine Price: Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life
Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power (FULL Updated)
youtube.comMarketplaces: "mitigate complexity in a mature creator platform."
Rex Woodbury • The Building Blocks of Tech
Metrics for success is a fascinating problem, because at the end of your day, you're planting seeds. And it'll take a decade or so for it to grow into its tree. We have these moments at Pioneer where we're not quite sure, are we successful or not? Companies have, at the end of the day, a very short-term feedback loop to chase, which is revenue,... See more
Daniel Gross • Finding Undiscovered Talent
I’m indifferent to whether you do something great or not. All I know is that tapping into your creative potential is deeply powerful and with all the resources in the world at our disposal, we might as well see what we can become.
Paul Millerd • The Great Creator Arbitrage Opportunity | #200 🥳
The choice, then, is not whether to build models; it's whether to build explicit ones. In explicit models, assumptions are laid out in detail, so we can study exactly what they entail. On these assumptions, this sort of thing happens. When you alter the assumptions that is what happens. By writing explicit models, you let others replicate your... See more
Joshua M Epstein • Why Model? | Santa Fe Institute
In twentieth-century culture, Futurism is the litmus test for probing the relationship between art and power, aesthetics and politics—the birth scene of aesthetic modernity.
Laura Wittman • Futurism: An Anthology (2009)
Wilczek then takes this idea to another level: Can beauty be not just a byproduct of science, but a fundamental principle of how the world works? In other words, can physicists use it to guide themselves to new insights, the way they use mathematical intuition, experimentation and other things? Wilczek believes they can—and they have.