Juan Orbea
@juanorbea
A node in a network
Juan Orbea
Domesticated type – has the ability to coordinate much larger groups of people than the wild type, and he does this by taking consciousness and culture and making a move that simplifies both of them, while maintaining a substantial portion of their capacity to generate synergistic capabilities, and enabling social systems to scale. We move from... See more
Jordan Hall • The Game of Thrones | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 4
Where does the college rank in US News & World Report college prestige list that dates back to 1981Are the classes amazing?Is there a sports team I’m keen to play on?Is there a particular professor I want to work with or a particular major I want to pursue? Only 27% of college grads end up with a job closely related to their major.
nfx.com • Your Life Is Driven by Network Effects
"Some of the things we see as bugs might be, actually features, maybe crucial to our overall happiness...as our limitations might lead to More happiness than less".
Lex Fridman • Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences | Lex Fridman Podcast #302
Wires warp cyberspace in the same way wormholes warp physical space: the two points at opposite ends of a wire are, for informational purposes, the same point, even if they are on opposite sides of the planet. The cyberspace-warping power of wires, therefore, changes the geometry of the world of commerce and politics and ideas that we live in. The... See more
Wired • Mother Earth Mother Board
Often, companies are underestimated because people believe the market isn't large enough, and the execution will have risks (e.g. Crowdstrike). So how does that translate into the valuation I can pay today? If you have a fundamentally different belief about the size of the market then you believe that the company will be able to address more... See more
Kyle Harrison • Markets, Markets, and Markets
A hard decision is not hard because you can’t seem to “figure it out.” Hard decisions are hard because option A is better in some ways and option B is better in others. “When alternatives are on a par, it may matter very much which you choose, but one alternative isn’t better than the other,” Chang writes. “Rather, the alternatives are in the same neighborhood of value, in the same league of value, while at the same time being very different in kind of value.”
