Juan Orbea

Is it clear what it says about the graduates that they went to that college? A clear, strong brand lights up other networks because external nodes know what to expect from you if you’re a member.

TAM arbitrage: The core idea is that if you, as an investor or a founder, can do the work and understand a market better than anyone else, and appreciate that its actually bigger than anyone gives it credit for, then investors can pay higher prices, founders can be more aggressive with burn, and experiment more broadly.

The New Polymath is an enterprise which has learned to amalgamate 3, 5, 10 strands of technology-infotech, cleantech, healthtech, nanotech, biotech-to create compound new products and to innovate internal processes.

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.

These values are implemented in a very libertarian and tech-forward way, organizing not around land, history, ethnicity and country, but around the cloud and personal choice, but they are rightist values nonetheless. 

Burgis breaks down the theories behind mimetic desire and the teachings of René Girard, why all of our behaviors are imitative, why we desire things we don’t need, and why this all leads to missing out on aspects of life that are far more meaningful and valuable.

Investor and entrepreneur Ray Dalio and psychologists Dr. Adam Grant, Dr. Brian Little, and Dr. John Golden.