Juan Orbea

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How to Find Clarity When You’re at a Career Crossroads

A hard decision is not hard because you can’t seem to “figure it out.” Hard decisions are hard because option A is better in some ways and option B is better in others. “When alternatives are on a par, it may matter very much which you choose, but one alternative isn’t better than the other,” Chang writes. “Rather, the alternatives are in the same neighborhood of value, in the same league of value, while at the same time being very different in kind of value.”

High-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU): HALEU is a uranium fuel that contains ~20% U-235. Based on the demand by SMRs and microreactors for HALEU, we’ll need capabilities to develop dozens of metric tons of HALEU uranium in the next decade.

Bessemer Venture Partners • Investing in a world powered by nuclear fission

Anchors around case studies on innovations and creative processes at 8 New Polymath enterprises - BP, Cognizant, GE, Kleiner Perkins, National Hurricane Center, Plantronics and more.

Vinnie Mirchandani • The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innov…

Climate Tech | Brimstone

brimstone.energy

Sustainability & Climate Change and deep-tech

Reverse Engineering the Human Brain

Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections

Over 20% of energy in the US comes from a nuclear source. Up to 70% in France. Yet it's not a technology that has been widely accepted, primarily due to concerns of historical safety risks and storage + a dependency on coal and gas.

C Capital • C5 Capital - Next Generation Nuclear Technology

Fee and Expense Recycling: Fee recycling is reinvesting the fund expenses and management fees (usually as follow-on investments) as distributions occur. For a $100M fund with a 2% yearly management fee, there will be $20M in total management fees taken over the life of the fund. Many funds look to reinvest the full fund into companies... See more

Kauffman Fellows • Venture Fund Portfolio Construction | Journal | Kauffman Fellows

As everyone spends more and more of their time online, the ability to design the digital screens and images people interact with has become top-of-mind for everyone. That change in behavior has led to a $41 billion market for a “wider audience – like social media influencers, small business owners and marketing executives – [who] are looking for... See more

Contrary Research • Canva

I'm generally in the first camp; I am concerned about the prospect of both the West and China settling into a kind of low-growth conservatism, I love how imperfect coordination between nation states limits the enforceability of things like global copyright law, and I'm concerned about the possibility that, with future surveillance technology, the... See more