Juan Orbea

PrinciplesYou was developed over a two-year intensive and creative R&D process with two goals in mind. First, it measures traits that Ray Dalio and his team have observed and studied for many years as critical for personal and organizational success. Second, it is based on the latest research in personality science. The assessment combines rigorous... See more

But of course, engaging in this kind of synthesis requires transgressing against what would otherwise be the purism of disciplinary boundaries, and that's why I've come to appreciate an impure approach to both psychology and philosophy. It's because an impure approach, the kind that strategically flouts disciplinary boundaries, seems to reflect how... See more

Of course most funds hope that not all but one company they invest in has an exit, so the GPs must then make some assumptions around the percentage of companies that go to zero, return 1x capital, return a modest 3x capital, return a healthy 25x capital and return more than 100x capital. Making assumptions around graduation rates can help GPs... See more

A classic problem in computer science is hill climbing. Imagine you are dropped at a random spot on a hilly terrain, where you can only see a few feet in each direction (assume it’s foggy or something). The goal is to get to the highest hill.

Anti-rivalrous – those set of things in which, if I have it, you can also get a completely functional copy of it without me losing it + the more people that have it, the more valuable it becomes.

The Double Exponential Growth of the Economy During the 1990s Was Not a Bubble