Juan Orbea

Downloading the Human Brain

We only get value from finishing projects, and getting a project over the finish line is the magical moment it goes from risk to leverage. Time spent getting work finished is always time well spent.

Well, by contrast, in Germany the Great Depression produced hyperinflation which broke the financial system and hammered the economic layer. In fact, it went all the way down to the sociopolitical layer with the collapse of the Weimar Republic, which then penetrated into the cultural layer. Things like the Holocaust, were Germans turned against... See more

This blogpost explores venture portfolio construction and the various trade off implications a GP must consider and enables you to construct your own portfolio to understand how various assumptions impact returns to LPs and GPs. 

Feral Type – its niche is narrative and society. Narrative becomes reality. This gives rise to 2 failure conditions: 1) delusion (which is an identification with an ideology that takes the story as actually being reality) and 2) deception (the perception of society being first and foremost a hierarchy/conflict between domesticated people).

If something dire is happening at your company, then that’s the place to be engaged. Nothing else will matter if it doesn’t get addressed.

In this research-based vision, cities are no longer limited by access to ground transportation. Plastics and cement are made from air, water, and electricity. Vernon and Dourado even predict a carbon shortage.