Juan Orbea

Chart by Lloyd WattsCochlea: Sense organ of hearing. Detection of spectral edges and calibrating for noise levels. VNTB: Ventral Nucleus of the Trapezoid Body. Computing inter-aural time difference (difference in time of arrival between the two ears, used to tell where a sound is coming from).LSO: Lateral Superior Olive. The brain is not one huge “... See more

Generally, I am used to the Big Compromise Idea being a leftist one: some form of equality and democracy. Balaji, on the other hand, has Big Compromise Ideas that feel more rightist: local communities with shared values, loyalty, religion, physical environments structured to encourage personal discipline ("keto kosher") and hard work. 

Economic, social and environmental drivers continue to force owners, developers, and homebuilders to find cost savings opportunities and innovative solutions .

Abject poverty (living with less than $1.9/day) was cut by 50% from 2000-2012, lifting +1B people above this threshold. This is the biggest economic miracle in the history of humankind.

Pebble fuel: Typically used for HTGRs, fuel pebbles are meltdown-resistant small, solid pellets that encase uranium fuel (typically HALEU). The pellets retain fission products under all reactor conditions and are structurally more resistant to neutron irradiation, corrosion, and high temperatures than are traditional reactor fuels. TRISO (TRi-struc... See more

Bill Browder, MBA '89, founder and CEO, talks about Hermitage Capital Management's investments in Russia and the fall out from the widespread corruption that still pervades Russia's economy.

Amazon is the example I think of most often, because its not actually some magical event that gave Bezos any unfair advantage. It was simply appreciating the present as it was. I would also argue there were two examples of Amazon's journey that represented an arbitrage opportunity in terms of TAM. 

Domesticated type – has the ability to coordinate much larger groups of people than the wild type, and he does this by taking consciousness and culture and making a move that simplifies both of them, while maintaining a substantial portion of their capacity to generate synergistic capabilities, and enabling social systems to scale. We move fro... See more