Juan Orbea
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Juan Orbea
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…
Today's ramped-up parental authority rests on three pillars: science, safety, and achievement. What we ambitious parents know about the human brain tells us that children need to be placed in stimulating and productive environments if they are going to reach their full potential. What we know about the world tells us that it is a dangerous place:... See more
David Brooks • The Organization Kid
The Software of Intelligence
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
The most fascinating part about the intelligence controversy is that most people don't find the genetic component and potency of IQ in your success as intuitive. It was blatantly apparent to me growing up people's ability to perform in subjects in school was secondarily driven by the amount of studying they did and other controllable factors and... See more
Lex Fridman • Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences | Lex Fridman Podcast #302
How to Use Your Brain Scan
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Copyright (C) Raymond Kurzweil 2001 Chart Graphics by Brett Rampata/Digital Organism
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
How does Christianity, at once the most "sacrificial" of religions and a faith with a non-violent ideology, fit into this scheme? Girard grants Freud's point, in Totem and Taboo, that Christianity is similar to primitive religion, but only to refute Freud―if Christ is sacrificed, Girard argues, it is not becuase God willed it, but because human... See more
O'Reilly Media • Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
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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.”