Juan Orbea
@juanorbea
A node in a network
Juan Orbea
When it comes to business and careers, the more interesting people will succeed and capture more upside than ever before.
Because the uninteresting ones will get commoditized (hello 🤖).
And by interesting I mean being capable of analyzing, deciding, and executing in a way few others can.
Generating more unique ideas, understanding complex things
... See moreFrom the Enlightenment on, modern political philosophy has been character- ized by the abandonment of a set of questions that an earlier age had deemed central: What is a well-lived life? What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of the city and humanity? How does culture and religion fit into all of this? For the modern world, the death of... See more
Peter Thiel • The Straussian Moment
Most people like to think of themselves as good people. Most people in first world countries have the opportunity to have a tremendous impact on other people's lives. If you earn more than $35k per year, you are in the top 1% of earners worldwide. This puts you in a great position to do good.
Will MacAskill • Doing Good: A Conversation with William MacAskill (Episode #228)
Details 11 building blocks these Polymaths are utilizing - from cloud computing, to sustainability, to social networks.
Vinnie Mirchandani • The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innov…
Notice How Exponential Growth Continued through Paradigm Shifts from Vacuum Tubes to Discrete Transistors to Integrated Circuits
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize for helping the Soviet Union starve Ukraine into submission, 90 years before the Times decided to instead "stand with Ukraine".
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
Snappa - Create online graphics in a snap
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As Chris explains, as fields develop they accumulate huge bodies of knowledge that researchers are meant to be familiar with before they start contributing themselves. But the weight of that existing knowledge — and the need to keep up with what everyone else is doing — can become crushing. It can take someone until their 30s or later to earn their... See more