Juan Orbea

Also, their discipline of walking away from insurance business when it was badly priced was key to their success.

Traditionally, high school students have taken assessments that are designed to identify strengths and talents and point to how those might map onto promising careers, but these have notable shortcomings. A new generation of assessments promises a better approach. Instead of assuming that individuals already know themselves, it puts them through a... See more

Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? Probably not and we think 10x (May 2022) seems more in line with the historical trend.

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

The Law of Accelerating Returns Applied to the Growth of Computation

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

Not to mention people's capacity to study more as an attempt to improve how "smart" they were was virtually futile.

The Importance of Having a Body