Jay Matthews
@jaymatthews
Aspiring corporate anthropologist, investment ecologist, & data psycho-analyst; Workaholic in remission
Jay Matthews
"This is a little book about a big subject. I'd like to share six views of our changing world, its people, its places, its environments... Our planet is mid-chapter and we are the authors of its destiny."
Weidenfeld & Nicolson • You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World
And so I think this is one of the reasons we, as a species, need the mediation of these stories — to create spaces where we can feel what it’s appropriate to feel and also acknowledge the complexity. We didn’t come to tie a bow on this and say that there’s a message. We came here to ask more questions and problematize it and interrogate it.
Krista Tippett • “You are not alone across time.”
From the description: Contrary to the assumptions of mainstream medicine, he asserts that most human ailments are not individual problems, but reflections of a person's relationship with the physical, emotional and social environment, from conception to death. Mind and body are not separate in real life, and thus health and illness in a person... See more
Gabor Mate • Dr. Gabor Maté - Toxic Culture | Bioneers
Water World: From glaciers to rivers to our relationship with water across cultures and history. This chapter covers water cycles and our influence on the future of water.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson • You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World
Creativity can be observed only in the interrelations of a system made up of three main parts. The first of these is the domain, which consists of a set of symbolic rules and procedures. The second component of creativity is the field, which includes all the individuals who act as gatekeepers to the domain. It is their job to decide whether a new... See more
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
It feels like there’s something in the heft of what he said and how he said it that he, also, in 1903 when he was writing those letters, was on the cusp of this unimaginable tumult and carnage and transformation of that last century.
On Being • Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you’ve got inside you.’ | The On Being Project
The most interesting part of this sort of research is, for me, the meaning that participants make, the stories they tell as a result of experience. These stories are evidence in themselves. It is through embodied experience, reflection and explanation that cultural knowledge systems are determined. Our ‘participation’ in and through these knowledge... See more