Jay Matthews

To sit together as a community and acknowledge the truth of war or the truth of addiction or the truth of domestic violence or the truth of COVID — inasmuch as it reduces our sense of isolation, and inasmuch as it’s able to put into words, grammar, and syntax things that we thought only we had ever thought, let alone ever expressed, I think it can... See more

The seeds of intimacy are time and repetition. We choose each other again and again, and so create a community of two.

The learning cannot be isolated within a script. As Piaget says, ‘it touches everything’ (Gardner, 1982:352).

There’s a difference between hard work and hustle, and it’s mostly a spiritual one. Hard work can be done for the love of the work itself. ... Hustle is greedy and grasping. Everything is a means to an end. Nothing can be labored over for its own sake.

The upside is so powerful that it often masks the downside, which is why so many people find themselves in a state of automaton conformity:

• we gain a community that (superficially) makes us feel secure; we do not feel isolated or out of place or weird;


• we are provided with (and rewarded for taking) shortcuts for what to believe in, what to do, and

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Argues that everyone models, some just do so explicitly and others fool themselves into thinking that they do not model. The author provides compelling reasons for why modelling is important and why people should engage in people. (good companion for Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, very relevant for corporate environments). Core arguments... See more

The idea is to initially attract users with a single-player tool and then, over time, get them to participate in a network. The tool helps get to initial critical mass. The network creates the long term value for users, and defensibility for the company.