Juan Orbea
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A node in a network
Juan Orbea
From adulthood, you’ll spend almost half your waking hours on your career — more than the time you’ll spend eating, on hobbies, and watching Netflix put together. So unless you happen to be the heir to a large estate, that time is the biggest resource you have to help others.
.hours • This is your most important decision
The Singularity Is Near
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
But I regard the freeing of the human mind from its severe physical limitations of scope and duration as the necessary next step in evolution. In making this statement, it is important to emphasize that terms like evolution, destiny, and spiritual quest are observations about the end result, not the basis for these predictions. The primary force... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
One area that’s often underinvested in (e.g. lots of room to work in) while also being highly leveraged is growing the team around you. If you start dedicating even a couple hours a week to developing the team around you, it’s quite likely that will become your legacy long after your tech specs and pull requests are forgotten.
lethain.com • Work on What Matters.
I'm blessed with an extremely poor memory, which allows me to deal with the future rather than the past.
George Soros • Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve
Hunter Walk recommends that folks avoid “snacking” when they prioritize work. If you’re in a well-run organization, at some point you’re going to run out of things that are both high-impact and easy. This leaves you with a choice between shifting right to hard and high-impact or shifting down to easy and low-impact. The later choice–easy and... See more
lethain.com • Work on What Matters.
Best 100+ Stable Diffusion Prompts: The Most Beautiful AI Text-to-Image Prompts
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The problem isn’t encouraging young people to aim high or dream big. It’s pretending that each of us is a blank canvas. I can dream all I want of becoming the next Michael Jordan, but my five-foot-seven frame and general lack of coordination say otherwise. Better advice came from the Greeks almost 2,500 years ago: “To know thyself is the beginning... See more
Education Next • First, Know Thyself. Then, Pick a Career Path
Of course most funds hope that not all but one company they invest in has an exit, so the GPs must then make some assumptions around the percentage of companies that go to zero, return 1x capital, return a modest 3x capital, return a healthy 25x capital and return more than 100x capital. Making assumptions around graduation rates can help GPs... See more