Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
empowerment levers:
- decision making discretion — autonomy, freedom, voice is important!
- when info is shared, that builds trust
- not incivility, positive organisations
- performance feedback
Gretchen Spreitzer • Necessary Conversation with Gretchen Spreitzer- Thriving at Work
One cold email can completely change your life.
Here’s how to write a great one:
Sahil Bloomtwitter.comAdulting and
Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you’ve got inside you.’ | The On Being Project
Anita Barrowsonbeing.org
Marriage and
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.comIt’s a living world. We can listen to it. We can open to it. It’s not a machine that we poke and press and push a button. It’s a mystery. And we meet the mystery, and then it talks.
On Being • Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you’ve got inside you.’ | The On Being Project
Einstein’s Dreams: Physicist Alan Lightman’s Poetic Exploration of Time and the Antidote to the Anxiety of Aliveness – The Marginalian
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
Philosophy and
One of the biggest challenges people have when embarking on an unconventional path is disconnecting from extrinsic markers of success and listening to internal motivational cues. On the default path, you can spend an entire career playing other people’s games. At first, people on a pathless path try to fill the lack of extrinsic goals with new ones... See more
Paul Millerd • The Great Creator Arbitrage Opportunity | #200 🥳
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
ECW Press • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Inherent in this vision of “perfection” is the embrace of trial-and-error learning and experimentation as necessary aspects of any worthwhile human endeavor. Integrating this commitment to tolerating and learning from error as part of one’s ideal of self-perfection is, by the way, one of the most powerful correctives for neurotic perfectionism