Juan Orbea
@juanorbea
A node in a network
Juan Orbea
Neuroscience and
Founders Fund Delian Asparouhov on Miami as a major tech hub, what he thinks as the drivers for innovation now, and the pros of incubating companies like Varda within firms
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Blockchains are the Lego of crypto-finance and crypto-governance: they are a very effective tool for implementing transparent in-protocol rules to govern common resources, assets and incentives.
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
Thiel argues that innovation has stagnated in the last half a century, citing examples of how industries like energy, aerospace, automotive or biotech haven't had any major breakthroughs during this period.
Hoover Institution • Peter Thiel and Andy Kessler on the state of technology and innovation
Anybody who has studied the VC industry knows that it works by “power law” returns in which a few key deals return the majority of a fund.
Both Sides of the Table • What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?
Let’s consider the issue of just who I am, and who the new Ray is a little more carefully. Like the water in a stream, my particles are constantly changing, but the pattern that people recognize as Ray has a reasonable level of continuity. After each procedure, I claim to be the same guy. If we talk about consciousness as just a certain type of... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
The Ochs-Sulzberger family, which owns The New York Times Company, owned slaves but didn't report that fact in their 1619 coverage.