Jay Matthews

Musgrave argues that this hyper focus on growth creates instability because most of the students that leave these institutions will need to be involved in maintaining businesses rather than being the one a handful of big innovators.

Platform: network of users and developers; multi-sided feedback loop between those users, developers, and platform itself creates flywheel effect increasing value for each of those groups. Network that can be programmed, customized, and extended by outside users. (often meets needs and creates niches not defined by original developers at the... See more

This essay is a combination of personal reflection on the self and identity labels, the restrictions that label-based belonging imposes and the discomfort that freedom can bring. Included are good mental models, praise for values-based life navigation, and interpretations of popular culture.

The takeaway is that you can take it slow. Creating online, doing your own thing, and dabbling here and there might dramatically expand your possibilities in the future.

The external factors that affect the health, makeup, and movement of forests are as complex as the forests themselves. The phenomenon of tree migration arises from interrelated and overlapping causes, such as changes in climate, past and present land use and management, the proliferation of native pests and plants, the introduction of non-native... See more

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.