Jay Matthews

Each year I’ve been self-employed I have underestimated the opportunities in front of me and it seems that there is still a massive disconnect between the quality of opportunities and the real and perceived “tax” that one needs to pay if they want to create online or leave the default path.

"let's embrace these bulging urban brains, these massed flowerings of opportunity and potential. The frontiers of exploration have spread from deserts, forests and mountain ranges to include centres of human population whose increasing scale demands new research, new ideas, new policies; fresh symbolism . Urban jungles are greener than we think.... See more

And so that's the power of those intimate immensities is that they carry, they encode so much that that can be ingested and, and taken into our bodies. Um, even just being in the garden and having our hands in the soil and, and, um, receiving their sensory, um, messages that they carry to us. Um, it's just profound healing.

These forces, in turn, were accelerated by the increasingly winner-take-all dynamics of the economy that were unleashed by the demise of traditional industries and regulations.

Future self-continuity may even operate at the group level, since cultures that value respect for elders tend to save more, while nations with longer histories tend to have cleaner environments.

And probably, the most predictive one we have is, "What is something weird or unusual you built or did early on in life?" I find it so astonishing in how polar it is. Someone will tell you about, "I accidentally got my high school teacher fired." And then someone will say something incredibly bland. "I did a 10-mile hike." To me, it really explains

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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.

Freud’s thinking was also influenced by Darwin’s theory of evolution, which emphasized individual organisms’ competitive struggle for survival.