Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
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
Future • All about Network Effects
Thriving at work
feel like making progress, positive trajectory, growing not burning out
**Measurement dimensions**
- vitality: feel energised, aliveness, work is not depleting but creating energy in the doing of the work
- learning component: growing, getting better, trying new thing
Gretchen Spreitzer • Necessary Conversation with Gretchen Spreitzer- Thriving at Work
This may be an inverse-U-shaped curve. As you can imagine, very early on, it's a picker's game, meaning, for example, with Pioneer, extremely early. We can pick whoever we want. Very late stage in the cap table, it's also a picker's game. I mean, obviously the company's public for the most part. Hedge funds are in the game of picking, not in the
... See moreDaniel Gross • Finding Undiscovered Talent
Geertz (1973) argues that the Enlightenment view of human nature placed such an overbearing emphasis on universal characteristics that it relegated the differential effects of culture to secondary status.
Gary B. Walls • Just a moment...
This disconnect can only last so long. This means there is a massive arbitrage opportunity for a certain kind of person that loves engaging with ideas, enjoys connecting with others around those ideas, going down obscenely deep rabbit holes, teaching people, and helping others in specific domains.
Paul Millerd • The Great Creator Arbitrage Opportunity | #200 🥳
Shelby Lorman writes a cathartic essay on overwhelming tragedy and the lack of tools to process grief as a society—especially as tragedies compound. Lorman discusses the intersection between the internet and the history of US mass shootings up to the end of May 2022, offering a comparison with Nick Drnaso's graphic novel "Sabrina". To answer the... See more
Shelby Lorman • how do you cope?
Core argument: This paper argues that the formal structures of many organizations in postindustrial society (Bell 1973) dramatically reflect the myths of their institutional environments instead of the demands of their work activities. Societal / institutional complexity has added to the core activities needed to perform a productive act of labour.... See more