Juan Orbea

Now that you’re done snacking, preening and chasing ghosts, the first place to look for work that matters is exploring whether your company is experiencing an existential risk. Companies operate in an eternal iterative elimination tournament, balancing future success against surviving until that future becomes the present. If you’re about to lose... See more

The most direct method for comprehending a world in which not all human beings are homo economicus would therefore appear to involve a return to some version of the older tradition. However, why did the older tradition fail in the first place? After all, it seemed to ask some obvious and important questions. How could these questions simply be... See more

Next generation smrs use a new kind of fuel called TRISO fuel that's much more efficient. T he US department of energy has called trisol fuel "the most robust nuclear fuel on earth". picture a sphere, about the size of a hand, inside there are thousands of tiny triso particles that harness the power of fission better than conventional uranium... See more

- The concept of ‘micromarriages’ and ‘microbestfriendships’.

Details 11 building blocks these Polymaths are utilizing - from cloud computing, to sustainability, to social networks.

For those growing into adulthood during most of the twentieth century, therefore, the backdrop to life was the loss of faith in coherent systems of thought and morality. Sophisticated people knew they were supposed to rebel against authority, reject old certainties, and liberate themselves from hidebound customs and prejudices. Artists rebelled... See more

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.