Juan Orbea
@juanorbea
A node in a network
Juan Orbea
Today's ramped-up parental authority rests on three pillars: science, safety, and achievement. What we ambitious parents know about the human brain tells us that children need to be placed in stimulating and productive environments if they are going to reach their full potential. What we know about the world tells us that it is a dangerous place:... See more
David Brooks • The Organization Kid
To make an analogy, imagine that the things that these nodes all give you show up on your life dashboard as you navigate life. They appear with a lot of numbers. Probabilities, rewards, costs, frictions. You make your decisions reading this dashboard and what the network presents to you there. You have agency and free will in making your decisions.... See more
nfx.com • Your Life Is Driven by Network Effects
This “law of accelerating returns” applies to all of technology, indeed to any true evolutionary process, and can be measured with remarkable precision in information based technologies. Also, keep in mind that every point on the exponential growth curves underlying these panoply of technologies (see the graphs below) represents an intense human... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Big, life-altering decisions matter so much more than the decisions we make every day, and they're also the most difficult: where to live, whom to marry, what to believe, whether to start a company, how to end a war. There's no one-size-fits-all approach for addressing these kinds of conundrums.
Riverhead Books • Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
Founders Fund Delian Asparouhov on Miami as a major tech hub, what he thinks as the drivers for innovation now, and the pros of incubating companies like Varda within firms
open.spotify.comBits and Atoms and
If your experience consisted entirely of being privileged, pampered, and recurringly rewarded in the greatest period of wealth creation in human history, you'd be upbeat too. You'd defer to authority. You'd think that the universe is benign and human nature is fundamentally wonderful.
David Brooks • The Organization Kid
The way we see it is that in venture right now you have 2 choices — super size or super focus. W e largely sat out fundings of NFTs or other areas where we didn’t feel like we were the expert or where the valuation metrics weren’t in line with our funding goals.
Both Sides of the Table • What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?
The Singularity Is Near
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Hubspot, for example, uses Canva to empower 300 team members to move quickly, create on-brand designs, and collaborate. Large global organizations such as Hubspot have trouble maintaining brand consistency and implementing design systems. Companies miss deadlines because design teams create bottlenecks due to too many projects and insufficient team... See more