Juan Orbea

While you can't model a once-in-a-lifetime choice, you can model the deliberative tactics of expert decision-makers. These experts aren't just the master strategists running major companies or negotiating high-level diplomacy. They're the novelists who draw out the complexity of their characters' inner lives, the city officials who secure long-term... See more

Alternative construction methods continue to build momentum especially in the 3D printed homebuilding world. We take a look at projects by 3D printing builders Diamond Age and Icon as well as talk to scientists researching 3D printing applications that will influence the future of homebuilding.

Such a practical and useful instantiation of mimetic theory.

 Expensive to build and often needing highly skilled engineers to maintain, artificial intelligence systems generally only pay off for large tech companies with vast amounts of data. But what if your local pizza shop could use AI to predict which flavor would sell best each day of the week? 

Imagine being a product of this regimen, one of the kids who thrived in it, the sort who winds up at elite schools. All your life you have been pleasing your elders, performing and enjoying the hundreds of enrichment tasks that dominated your early years. You are a mentor magnet. You spent your formative years excelling in school, sports, and... See more

This is the single fullest summation of Girard's ideas to date, the book by which they will stand or fall. 

Unlike most who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, nonconformist, analytical and control-oriented. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically peculiar? What part did these differences play in our history, and what do they mean for our collective identity?

This means if you can increase the positive impact of those hours just a little, it will probably have a bigger impact than changes to any other parts of your life.