Juan Orbea

For example, Indians are not familiar with the concept of salary/hour, which makes products whose value proposition is “convenience” very hard to sell, as opposed to the west.Maybe soulfulness is a function of chaos and inefficiencyIt is impossible to scale in life without standardizing, and standardization is the enemy of soulfulnessStandardized... See more

So if you are choosing between colleges, or know someone who is, consider the following questions:

Objective and Subjective

Germany sponsored Vladimir Lenin, and bankers in New York funded Leon Trotsky to foment the Russian Revolution. Both Wall Street and propagandistic reporting from Americans like John Reed aided Lenin and Trotsky in their revolution. Indeed, Reed was so useful to the Soviets — and so misleading as to the nature of the revolution — that he was buried... See more

Now that you’re done snacking, preening and chasing ghosts, the first place to look for work that matters is exploring whether your company is experiencing an existential risk. Companies operate in an eternal iterative elimination tournament, balancing future success against surviving until that future becomes the present. If you’re about to lose... See more

feel like we were the expert or where the valuation metrics weren’t in line with our funding goals.

6 discussion topics on which David agrees with Taleb:(1) [p. 286] The sterilized randomness of games does not resemble randomness in real life; thinking it does constitutes the Ludic Fallacy (his neologism). This is exactly right, and mathematicians should pay attention. In my own list of 100 instances of chance in the real world, exactly 1 item is... See more

The Ochs-Sulzberger family, which owns The New York Times Company, owned slaves but didn't report that fact in their 1619 coverage.