Juan Orbea
@juanorbea
A node in a network
Juan Orbea
So, specifically, I imagine that what happened in 2008 crisis is that, consciously or unconsciously, a decision was made to prevent or inhibit the negative consequences of the financial and to a lesser, but very important extent, economic layers by actually spending resources at the sociopolitical and cultural layers.
Jordan Hall • Four Layer Model of Social Systems | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 1
The Next Step in Evolution and the Purpose of Life
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Understandably, YouScience strives to make the experience and the resulting “strengths profile” as positive as possible. The post-assessment report doesn’t harp on what kids are not good at and also doesn’t tell anybody that the best fit for them is an unskilled, low-wage job. The 500 careers in its database all require at least some post-high... See more
Education Next • First, Know Thyself. Then, Pick a Career Path
Another and generally better algorithm has you repeatedly drop yourself in random parts of the terrain, do simple hill climbing, and then after many such attempts step back and decide which of the hills were highest.
cdixon.org • Cdixon | Climbing the Wrong Hill
Germany sponsored Vladimir Lenin, and bankers in New York funded Leon Trotsky to foment the Russian Revolution. Both Wall Street and propagandistic reporting from Americans like John Reed aided Lenin and Trotsky in their revolution. Indeed, Reed was so useful to the Soviets — and so misleading as to the nature of the revolution — that he was buried... See more
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
Where do most of the alumni of this college end up living? When you choose a college you are also choosing a regional network. If you go to school in California, for example, your friends and job offers will end up being mostly in that region. I don’t recruit at my alma mater Princeton anymore because it’s so low probability to pull a Princeton... See more
nfx.com • Your Life Is Driven by Network Effects
Fund Structure
Traditional Fund
Traditional funds typically do a “big bang” fundraise and begin deploying capital after the First Close. Once the fund is officially closed, they’re unable to accept new LPs.
That said, it’s not uncommon for fund managers to leave their fund “open” for several months while deploying and raising additional capital.
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