Juan Orbea

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Hunter Walk recommends that folks avoid “snacking” when they prioritize work. If you’re in a well-run organization, at some point you’re going to run out of things that are both high-impact and easy. This leaves you with a choice between shifting right to hard and high-impact or shifting down to easy and low-impact. The later choice–easy and... See more

lethain.com • Work on What Matters.

Andrew Ng shares a vision for democratizing access to AI, empowering any business to make decisions that will increase their profit and productivity. Learn how we could build a richer society – all with just a few self-provided data points.

TED • How AI Could Empower Any Business | Andrew Ng | TED

The U.S. government is pushing hard to fund the development of fourth-generation SMRs and microreactors. The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) has allocated billions of dollars to startups, including $1.2 billion to X-Energy and $2 billion to TerraPower. Similarly, the Pentagon recently selected BWXT to... See more

Bessemer Venture Partners • Investing in a world powered by nuclear fission

Technology has changed the nature of the threats our society is facing, but the defense industry is still generally approaching these questions with a twentieth century mindset. Before we can make meaningful progress in the space, we need to reconceptualize our approach to the question.

Anatomy of Next • Technology and Defense at Founders Fund HQ

A Clear and Future Danger

Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections

Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree

Chris Olah 80000hours.org

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Fee and Expense Recycling: Fee recycling is reinvesting the fund expenses and management fees (usually as follow-on investments) as distributions occur. For a $100M fund with a 2% yearly management fee, there will be $20M in total management fees taken over the life of the fund. Many funds look to reinvest the full fund into companies... See more

Kauffman Fellows • Venture Fund Portfolio Construction | Journal | Kauffman Fellows

"dominating the present with insights."

Kyle Harrison • Markets, Markets, and Markets

Most things that happen in society are multi-turn and repetitive. These are called preferential attachment processes which happen when something (such as money, status, fame, punishment) is distributed based on how much is already possessed. Most social processes are preferential attachment. For example, if two Founders each tweet out the same... See more