Juan Orbea

@juanorbea

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How will we apply the thousands of trillions of bytes of information derived from each brain scan? With this approach, we don’t have to copy every single connection. Although the information contained in a human brain would require thousands of trillions of bytes of information (on the order of 100 billion neurons times an average of 1,000... See more

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

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

UCLA professor and author, Dario Nardi, has discovered that people of different personality types don't merely rely on different brain regions -- they use their brains in fundamentally different ways.

Talks at Google • Neuroscience of Personality | Dario Nardi | Talks at Google

As everyone spends more and more of their time online, the ability to design the digital screens and images people interact with has become top-of-mind for everyone. That change in behavior has led to a $41 billion market for a “wider audience – like social media influencers, small business owners and marketing executives – [who] are looking for... See more

Contrary Research • Canva

The Web's Favorite Online Graphic Design Tool | Stencil

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Democratizing Design

Will this give me the work I want to do daily?Is this the best offer I got in terms of income?Does this company look good on my resume?Does this company let me take as much vacation as I want, have free catered lunches, and a fancy office?

nfx.com • Your Life Is Driven by Network Effects

The Intuitive Linear View versus the Historical Exponential View

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

Blockchain communities continue to stand for openness, freedom, censorship resistance and credible neutrality, at a time where many geopolitical actors are increasingly only serving their own interests. This enhances their international appeal further: you don't have to love US hegemony to love blockchains and the values that they stand for. And... See more

Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?

Next, we get Balaji's overview of the political realignments in recent history, and finally we get to his core model of politics in the present day: NYT (Woke Capital), CCP (Communist Capital), BTC (Crypto Capital).