Juan Orbea

Are the people in this city like me? Each city has a vibe that may or may not fit with you. Each city calls ambitious people to improve in some area. NYC calls you to earn more money. Seattle and Portland call you to recreate more. DC calls you to be more connected. SF calls you to create more, invent more. It’s the garage where the crazy uncle is... See more

It takes 1.3 billion dollars to get though the FDA process.

But before we dig any further into the specifics of the technology, and developments we’re starting to see on that front, it’s worth talking about the government — our current relationship, and how we might improve the way we work together.

This “law of accelerating returns” applies to all of technology, indeed to any true evolutionary process, and can be measured with remarkable precision in information based technologies. Also, keep in mind that every point on the exponential growth curves underlying these panoply of technologies (see the graphs below) represents an intense human... See more

This is the single fullest summation of Girard's ideas to date, the book by which they will stand or fall. 

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. 

Such a practical and useful instantiation of mimetic theory.

I would propose that this was being done, and that it was done at the cost of sociopolitical and cultural capital. So, quite specifically, what I would say is that things like Trump phenomenon and Brexit are directly and linearly connected to the various bailouts that happened in the United States and Europe, that it was a direct subsidy of the... See more