Juan Orbea

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

None of this bodes well for many of the new VC entrants who have suddenly become enamored by the capital return potential of science. We have a view that real advances in science are relatively rare, that they are hard to produce, and they tend to be signaled by clear research evidence years if not decades in advance. Venture capital is not a fit... See more

Canva's target market has always been the long-tail of less sophisticated creatives, often people without technical skills or advanced software. For that long-tail, the focus is on creating high quality designs with as little friction as possible. By bringing all of this creative surface area into the same platform they enable long-tail creators to... See more

Before considering further the implications of the Singularity, let’s examine the wide range of technologies that are subject to the law of accelerating returns. Given that the electrons have less distance to travel, the circuits also run twice as fast, providing an overall quadrupling of computational power. After sixty years of devoted service,... See more

If something dire is happening at your company, then that’s the place to be engaged. Nothing else will matter if it doesn’t get addressed.

[3] is of course a more complicated moral question: whether you view paralysis and creep toward de-facto authoritarian global government as a bigger problem or someone inventing an evil technology that dooms us all as a bigger problem. 

This could occur in many different ways: For example, all organizational decisions could be determined by tokenholder voting, but token ownership and voting turnout could be widely dispersed among many “minnows” (persons each holding a small % of total token supply/total voting power). Alternatively, different types of decisions could be delegated... See more