Juan Orbea

How big is the college? The bigger the college, the bigger the alumni network. The bigger the alumni network, the more weak ties you have, which are great for career, marriage, and a host of other life attributes. Harvard Business School has figured this out and has classes of 900 compared to Stanford and MIT Sloan of 400.How strong is the affinity... See more

For example, Indians are not familiar with the concept of salary/hour, which makes products whose value proposition is “convenience” very hard to sell, as opposed to the west.Maybe soulfulness is a function of chaos and inefficiencyIt is impossible to scale in life without standardizing, and standardization is the enemy of soulfulnessStandardized... See more

But pretty soon, Balaji's examples do start to point to some particular themes:

So, when making a decision about where you want to work, instead of asking:

From the Enlightenment on, modern political philosophy has been character- ized by the abandonment of a set of questions that an earlier age had deemed central: What is a well-lived life? What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of the city and humanity? How does culture and religion fit into all of this? For the modern world, the death of... See more

The next generation of nuclear fission reactors will shed the inefficiencies that have plagued the previous generations of light water reactors. One unifying characteristic of many Generation IV reactors is that many are small, modular reactors (SMRs). Unlike traditional large, fixed nuclear power plants, SMRs are small, manufactured off-site, and... See more

Wherefrom Moore’s Law