Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
The way that education can lock us into careers, or at least substantially direct the route we travel, would not be so problematic if we were excellent judges of our future interests and characters.
Maria Popova • How to Find Fulfilling Work
“The tenant’s visiting card is his window-pane.”
ECW Press • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
- Platform durability: wide range of apps with low revenue concentration
- Creator Economics: convert users to creators then retain and increase engagement
- Growth Flywheel: virtuous cycle where more creation drives more revenue and a better product
Rex Woodbury • The Building Blocks of Tech
I work in a state of passion and frenzy. When I begin a canvas, I obey a physical impulse, a need to act; it’s like a physical discharge.
Joan Miro • I Work Like a Gardener
"One of the reasons I first started The Generalist was because I believe that the great epics of our era will occur in the tech sector . No other field asks – and tests – so many consequential philosophical, psychological, and societal questions so frequently. What is money? What makes something valuable? Will nations exist in the cloud? Can we... See more
Mario Gabriele • Generalist Capital: In Search of Epics | The Generalist
"Trying to make sense of the senseless, to process the unthinkable as it’s happening, the news cycle is already moving on, you haven’t stopped crying about the other recent tragedies, don’t know how to hold all this, your mind like a vase that is leaking, trying to find some way to contain all of this but it slips out, into everything, onto every... See more
Shelby Lorman • how do you cope?
On complementarity: Near the end of A Beautiful Question, Wilczek devotes a few pages to complementarity—the idea that no single description of a phenomenon can be complete. The great Danish physicist Niels Bohr introduced complementarity to resolve a problem bedeviling the developers of quantum mechanics in the 1920s: in some cases, it appeared to... See more
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
When I arrived at the old Qlapaw tribal site, I accidentally discovered the abandoned hut of a mountain farm. It was a shelter built with canvas printed campaign portraits, bamboo and wood of various lengths. It looks like a nest woven with plastic straps in order to lay eggs by parent birds who weave its nest in the wastes of the modern world. It... See more
Cetus Chin-Yun Kuo • Cartographer
The Response Gratitude and reciprocity are the currency of a gift economy, and they have the remarkable property of multiplying with every exchange, their energy concentrating as they pass from hand to hand, a truly renewable resource.