Juan Orbea

- Why highly thoughtful cold emails can be surprisingly effective, but average cold emails do little.

The Software of Intelligence

"I'm a big believer that the only real driver of human progress and economic growth over the long term is the societal structure that enables scientific progress, and then scientific progress itself."

His aim with this challenge was to prove that you can attain an Ivy League education (without the degree) in much less time and 100x less cost.

Pacing yourself becomes the central challenge of a sustained, successful career: increasingly senior roles require that you accomplish more and more, and do it in less and less time. The ledge between these two constraints gets narrower the further you go, but it remains walkable if you take a deliberate approach.

No phrase better encapsulates science investing today than the challenge of “condensing fact from the vapor of nuance.”