Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
More generally, I posit the two keys to understanding Web3 are:
1) Beware of easy money schemes
2) Beware of #HollowAbstractions
When proponents like @cdixon promise riches to come via abstract "mental models", we can gently guide them to focus on money flows and use cases.
Liron Shapiratwitter.comProposition 1. As rationalized institutional rules arise in given domains of work activity, formal organizations form and expand by incorporating these rules as structural elements.
American Journal of Sociology • Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony on JSTOR
It also becomes a bit more performative. Which again is fine. Nothing wrong with that. But we shouldn't hide away from this fact.
Rosieland • Building in community
Belonging gives us the confidence to take care of ourselves, others, our planet, and all the members of our ecosystem. Knowing this, it becomes clear that building a community is one of the most important, generous, and creative acts a human can aspire to.
Radha Agrawal • Home - BELONG: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life
Ship Shape - Venture Capital Search Engine
shipshape.vc
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
If I am seeing the world through an identity-first lens, what happens to the image I have constructed of myself once a core part of it is challenged? In this scenario, I am forced to either:
- Subscribe to additional identity labels or come up with numerous caveats to explain why my experience contradicts that of someone else in my identity group
- Deny
sundus • I Am Me Before I Am Anything Else
Psychoanalysis is profoundly influenced by and in turn influences the social, economic, cultural, and political contexts in which it is practiced. Although created as a therapy for individual suffering, psychoanalysis has also always contained important implications for the progressive development of a more humane society and has defined its cures... See more
Gary B. Walls • Just a moment...
Relational psychoanalytic models, sometimes referred to as intersubjective, do not view individuals as discrete centers of experience and action; instead, they assert that all self-experience is ontologically social. They challenge the “myth of the isolated mind” (Stolorow and Atwood, 1992, p. 7) and suggest that psychological experience is derived... See more