Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
This is why art matters: because it dredges our psychic depths in ways that even the artist may not understand. “The arts,” writes the Zen poet Gary Snyder, following Levi-Strauss, “are the wilderness areas of the imagination, surviving like national parks in the midst of civilized minds.” Strange things grow in the wilderness; unusual plants... See more
Paul Kingsnorth • The Great Work: Alchemy and the Power of Words – Paul Kingsnorth
thriving: what we do to make changes in our environment that matter to use for our thriving and those we are responsible for co-construction of work environment so that it produces resources in the doing of the work
- resources: individuals more control over
- positive emotions (resource!)
- sense of meaning
- positive relationships
Gretchen Spreitzer • Necessary Conversation with Gretchen Spreitzer- Thriving at Work
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 🥳
No matter what path we are on we feel the pressure to always be doing and orienting ourselves in ways that might help us in our careers. It convinces us we need to ship, produce, have an impact, and make money, or we are a failure.
Paul Millerd • The Great Creator Arbitrage Opportunity | #200 🥳
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
“ I’d like to go away somewhere, but when it gets dark I’m afraid of not finding the way home again. In the morning there’s a dense fog and then everything is so quiet. Every day I do the same work, and every morning the place is a mess again. There’s never any end to it. I really wish I were dead. ”
ECW Press • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. I must graft. I must water, as with lettuce. Ripening goes on in my mind. So I’m always working at a great many things at the same time.
Joan Miro • I Work Like a Gardener
Yet when you have created a simulation-like environment that is immune to reality, this is what happens. You refuse to believe what everyone else can easily see. It is sort of like the old folk tale of the Emperor’s New Clothes. It is about the power of cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias to avoid facing reality. The current obsession of... See more
Ed Brenegar • Leadership and the Culture of Simulation.
Hollow Abstraction:
An abstraction that sounds coherent, but lacks a specific referent
Most people are easy targets for HAs, because they draw conclusions from abstractions without checking if they're hollow.
Hollow Abstraction is the mental model that best... See more
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