Juan Orbea
@juanorbea
A node in a network
Juan Orbea
DNA Sequencing, Memory, Communications, the Internet, and Miniaturization
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Many folks would assume that companies, rational optimizers that they are, avoid spending much time on low-impact high-effort projects. Unfortunately that isn’t consistently the case. It’s surprisingly common for a new senior leader to join a company and immediately drive a strategy shift that fundamentally misunderstands the challenges at hand.... See more
lethain.com • Work on What Matters.
risk taking and
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
David Brooks • The Organization Kid
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Contrary Research • Canva
His main point is that there is lots of logical inconsistencies within the crypto space, simply, that pitches and business modes such as "Play to Earn", do not make any sense.
Unbounded Capital • Liron Shapira shares his views on Crypto - UNBOUNDED LIVE
Wild type – the wild type is adapted for the niche of just nature. Human beings where primary problems are associated with survival in nature. The wild type developed consciousness in the context of culture, to produce a culture that is adapted to a niche.
Jordan Hall • The Game of Thrones | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 4
A hard decision is not hard because you can’t seem to “figure it out.” Hard decisions are hard because option A is better in some ways and option B is better in others. “When alternatives are on a par, it may matter very much which you choose, but one alternative isn’t better than the other,” Chang writes. “Rather, the alternatives are in the same neighborhood of value, in the same league of value, while at the same time being very different in kind of value.”
Finally, another common approach is to back into the required fund value to guarantee a Net LP return multiple (i.e. net of fees and carry). For e.g. for a $100M fund to return 3x net to its LPs given the standard 2 and 20 model and $850K in total fund expenses, the total net return for the fund would have to be $370M after taking into account the... See more