Juan Orbea

I'm generally in the first camp; I am concerned about the prospect of both the West and China settling into a kind of low-growth conservatism, I love how imperfect coordination between nation states limits the enforceability of things like global copyright law, and I'm concerned about the possibility that, with future surveillance technology, the... See more

The Maslow hierarchy of needs is completely different in asia, that’s why many products fail at monetisation when they enter these markets

This  podcast  features the story of Constellation Software, a software conglomerate which owns more than 500 vertical market software businesses. It was founded by Mark Leonard (who amusingly started his career as a venture capitalist for 11 eleven years) in 1995 and has returned more than 100x to their shareholders since its IPO on the Toronto

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The momentum for nuclear power goes beyond what’s happening in Ukraine. 

This means if you can increase the positive impact of those hours just a little, it will probably have a bigger impact than changes to any other parts of your life.

Blockchain communities continue to stand for openness, freedom, censorship resistance and credible neutrality, at a time where many geopolitical actors are increasingly only serving their own interests. This enhances their international appeal further: you don't have to love US hegemony to love blockchains and the values that they stand for. And... See more

Team NYT basically runs the US, and its total lack of competence means that the US is collapsing. 

How can smart, ambitious people stay working in an area where they have no long term ambitions? I think a good analogy for the mistake they are making can be found in computer science.