Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
These are powerful questions and I the version of it I would ask you today is:
- What are you most curious about?
- What is your unique perspective or way of helping in this domain?
- Given the infinite resources available to you today, why are you doing nothing about this?
Paul Millerd • The Great Creator Arbitrage Opportunity | #200 🥳
Fun is a feeling, not an activity, there's an element of serendipity: easy to recognise (illuminated from within)
- visceral sense of lightne
ss and joy (radiant)
Catherine Price • Catherine Price: Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life
Core Ideology = Core Values + Purpose
Core Values = The organization’s essential and enduring tenets – a small set of general guiding principles; not to be confused with specific cultural or operating practices; not to be compromised for financial or short-term expediency.... See more
Purpose = The organization’s fundamental reasons for existence beyond just
Ed Brenegar • Leadership and the Culture of Simulation.
If you had to set one metric to use as a leading indicator for yourself as a knowledge worker, the best I know might be the number of Evergreen notes written per day .
Andy Matuschak • Evergreen Notes
universities and
“Most or all of what I do takes off from looking at the description of the world we have… like an art critic—saying, how could this have been better? And then trying to improve the equations …to explain things that don’t seem to fit,” he says. “Aesthetic guidance has been very crucial in trying to formulate new laws—and sometimes it’s worked.”
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
"In fact, one of the biggest mistakes I have made in my life, and I think a lot of investors, is be scared by what the big platforms will do."
Invest like the Best • Internet Scale Businesses
The choice, then, is not whether to build models; it's whether to build explicit ones. In explicit models, assumptions are laid out in detail, so we can study exactly what they entail. On these assumptions, this sort of thing happens. When you alter the assumptions that is what happens. By writing explicit models, you let others replicate your... See more
Joshua M Epstein • Why Model? | Santa Fe Institute
Kropotkin pointed out that Darwin’s own comments regarding the survival value of the social instincts are widely ignored. In The Descent of Man (1871), Darwin described how animal species in which cooperation among individuals replaced competitive struggle were able to secure the best conditions for survival. He implied that, in such cases, the... See more