Juan Orbea

Abject poverty (living with less than $1.9/day) was cut by 50% from 2000-2012, lifting +1B people above this threshold. This is the biggest economic miracle in the history of humankind.

The Law of Accelerating Returns

The book is not merely, or perhaps not mainly, biblical exegesis, for within its scope fall some of the most vexing problems of social history―the paradox that violence has social efficacy, the function of the scapegoat, the mechanism of anti-semitism.

There are three ways that you can interpret the underlying goal here:1) Creating new regulatory environments that let their residents have different priorities from the priorities preferred by the mainstream.

A deep dive into the core traits and how they are likely to play out in real life situations;

His aim with this challenge was to prove that you can attain an Ivy League education (without the degree) in much less time and 100x less cost.