Juan Orbea

Consider how many of our thoughts and thinking are directed toward our body and its survival, security, nutrition, and image, not to mention affection, sexuality, and reproduction. Many, if not most, of the goals we attempt to advance using our brains have to do with our bodies: protecting them, providing them with fuel, making them attractive,... See more

It’s natural to care about future generations: we may all want the lives of our children and grandchildren to go well, even before they are born. 

PrinciplesYou was developed over a two-year intensive and creative R&D process with two goals in mind. First, it measures traits that Ray Dalio and his team have observed and studied for many years as critical for personal and organizational success. Second, it is based on the latest research in personality science. The assessment combines rigorous... See more

Team NYT basically runs the US, and its total lack of competence means that the US is collapsing. 

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

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