Juan Orbea

Crossroad #6 – Where You LiveWhere to live powerfully impacts the relationships and direction of your life, in ways you may not even realize. When coming out of college, this is even more important to your life than your choice of job. 

But we also need to go a level deeper. Blockchains and network states have the shared property that they are both trying to "create a new root". 

To appreciate the nature and significance of the coming “singularity,” it is important to ponder the nature of exponential growth. By the end of the first half of the chess board, the inventor had accumulated one large field’s worth (4 billion grains), and the emperor did start to take notice. Incidentally, with regard to the doublings of... See more

The next generation of nuclear fission reactors will shed the inefficiencies that have plagued the previous generations of light water reactors. One unifying characteristic of many Generation IV reactors is that many are small, modular reactors (SMRs). Unlike traditional large, fixed nuclear power plants, SMRs are small, manufactured off-site, and... See more

Until 1998 BH run a levered operation by having more invested assets in the insurance operation than BH itself had in book value.

Before considering further the implications of the Singularity, let’s examine the wide range of technologies that are subject to the law of accelerating returns. Given that the electrons have less distance to travel, the circuits also run twice as fast, providing an overall quadrupling of computational power. After sixty years of devoted service,... See more

Experts predict that solar and wind can meet ~70% of the world’s energy demands, but what energy sources will take up which shares of the remaining pie? The remaining must be covered by some combination of other low-carbon sources like hydro, biomass, geothermal, gas/oil with carbon sequestration, and, of course, nuclear.