Juan Orbea

Gifted children and adults are often misunderstood. 

This style of thinking is foreign to me, but I find it fascinating, and important. Stereotypical "wealthy white liberals" ignore this at their peril: these more "traditional" values are actually quite popular even among some ethnic minorities in the United States, and even more so in places like Africa and India, which is exactly where Balaji is... See more

You have about 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for 40 years.

The Double Exponential Growth of the Economy During the 1990s Was Not a Bubble

Using colorful anecdotes and brain imagery, Dr. Nardi shares key insights from his lab. Among these insights: how people of different personalities can find and sustain a state of creative flow.

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

As an example of a similar historic circumstance you can take a look at what happened in the United States and in Germany in the context of the great depression in the 1930s. In the United States the financial depression hits the financial layer quite badly, it burned down to the economic later, it burned under the political layer which is to say... See more