Juan Orbea

Consider how many of our thoughts and thinking are directed toward our body and its survival, security, nutrition, and image, not to mention affection, sexuality, and reproduction. Many, if not most, of the goals we attempt to advance using our brains have to do with our bodies: protecting them, providing them with fuel, making them attractive,... See more

The last 12 years were "up and to the right". It’s easy to make IRRs work really well in a 12-year bull market but VCs have to make money in good markets and bad.

Software Price-Performance Has Also Improved at an Exponential Rate

What kind of career or industry do alumni of this college typically work in? Here’s an example of how this works. My 23-year-old nephew went to Trinity College in Connecticut. Most of the students from that college end up working in finance in NYC or Boston. Guess what my nephew now does? He works in finance in Boston. He followed the least... See more

3) Pushing against regulatory conservatism in general, by increasing the chance that there's some jurisdiction that will let you do any particular thing. Allowing people to opt into network states that accept higher levels of risk could be a successful strategy for pushing against this.

If that were unavoidable it would be one thing, but Chris thinks we’re nowhere near communicating existing knowledge as well as we could. 

Gifted children and adults are often misunderstood.