Juan Orbea
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Juan Orbea
This happens slowly because while public markets trade daily and prices then adjust instantly, private markets don’t get reset until follow-on financing rounds happen which can take 6–24 months.
Both Sides of the Table • What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?
His current project is to learn MIT's 4-year curriculum for computer science in 12 months, without taking any classes. Scott earned his Bachelor of Commerce Honors from the University of Manitoba and his blog features more than 850 articles and books focused on "getting more from life".
Scott Young • Can you get an MIT education for $2,000? | Scott Young | TEDxEastsidePrep
“The effort to leave the beaten path forces everyone into the same ditch”
Luke Burgis • The Orthodoxy of Heterodoxy
If people stopped pursuing quaint things, we'd have far fewer big things that lead to a better future. Let's hope that never happens.
Julian Weisser • Quaint startups become the next big thing.
The book is not merely, or perhaps not mainly, biblical exegesis, for within its scope fall some of the most vexing problems of social history―the paradox that violence has social efficacy, the function of the scapegoat, the mechanism of anti-semitism.
O'Reilly Media • Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
The 6-9 major jointly resides in EECS and BCS. Enrolled students will have one academic advisor assigned by BCS, with additional advising support from the Course 6 Undergraduate Office.
MIT • Course 6-9: Computation and Cognition | Brain and Cognitive Sciences
It seems very unintuitive because we're in a very unusual place in the world. It's only over the last couple of hundred years there's such a wild discrepancy between rich countries and poor countries where people in which countries have 100x the income of the poorest people in the world and where we have the technology to be able to change the... See more
Will MacAskill • Doing Good: A Conversation with William MacAskill (Episode #228)
Notice How Exponential Growth Continued through Paradigm Shifts from Vacuum Tubes to Discrete Transistors to Integrated Circuits
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Crossroad #6 – Where You LiveWhere to live powerfully impacts the relationships and direction of your life, in ways you may not even realize. When coming out of college, this is even more important to your life than your choice of job.