Juan Orbea

Where “snacking” is the broad category of doing easy and low-impact work, there’s a particularly seductive subset of snacking that I call “preening.” Preening is doing low-impact, high-visibility work.

Reverse Engineering the Human Brain: Five Parallel Auditory Pathways

The heat released by fission in nuclear reactors must be captured and transferred for use in electricity generation. To this end, reactors use coolants (e.g., water) that remove heat from the core where the fuel is processed and carry it to electrical generators. Coolants also serve to maintain manageable pressures within the core.

So, specifically, I imagine that what happened in 2008 crisis is that, consciously or unconsciously, a decision was made to prevent or inhibit the negative consequences of the financial and to a lesser, but very important extent, economic layers by actually spending resources at the sociopolitical and cultural layers.

Valuations will get reset. First in late-stage tech companies and then it will filter back to Growth and then A and ultimately Seed Rounds.

This disappearance had many repercussions. If humans can be approximated as rational economic actors (and, ultimately, even Adam Smith and Karl Marx agree on this point), then those who seek glory in the name of God or country appear odd; but if such odd people are commonplace and capable of asserting themselves with explosive force, then the... See more