Juan Orbea
@juanorbea
A node in a network
Juan Orbea
Quaint startups begin in such a humble and unassuming way that it is hard to predict they will amount to much. But imagining how they could become important in the future is essential if you want to be ahead of the curve. When successful, quaint startups seem to come from out of nowhere and capture or create entire markets.
Julian Weisser • Quaint startups become the next big thing.
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. The Black Swan: The impact of the highly improbable. Random House, 2007.
David Aldousstat.berkeley.eduDecision Making and
Generally, I am used to the Big Compromise Idea being a leftist one: some form of equality and democracy. Balaji, on the other hand, has Big Compromise Ideas that feel more rightist: local communities with shared values, loyalty, religion, physical environments structured to encourage personal discipline ("keto kosher") and hard work.
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
But we also need to go a level deeper. Blockchains and network states have the shared property that they are both trying to "create a new root".
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
Chris Olah has had a fascinating and unconventional career path.
Robert Wiblin • Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree
We all have a finite amount of time to live, and within that mortal countdown we devote some fraction towards our work. Even for the most career-focused, your life will be filled by many things beyond work. This is the sign of a rich life, but one side-effect is that time to do your work will become increasingly scarce as you get deeper into your... See more
lethain.com • Work on What Matters.
The assessment provides detailed descriptions of views along multiple dimensions of an individual’s personality, including:
Adam Grant • PrinciplesYou From Ray Dalio
The Singularity Is Near