Juan Orbea

So far, I’ve been talking about the hardware of computing. The requisite hardware capacity is a necessary but not sufficient condition. A key advantage of nonbiological intelligence is that machines can easily share their knowledge. We exposed it to thousands of hours of recorded speech, corrected its errors, and patiently improved its performance.... See more

In addition to that, and I suspect this will be controversial, you should probably de-emphasize questions like:

The first idea is you can think about any social system using those layers. The second idea and (the more important point) is to think about the way that the layers can actually be traded off against each other.

I believe all employees in a startup are on a spectrum between two poles:

Where do most of the alumni of this college end up living? When you choose a college you are also choosing a regional network. If you go to school in California, for example, your friends and job offers will end up being mostly in that region. I don’t recruit at my alma mater Princeton anymore because it’s so low probability to pull a Princeton... See more

The world seems chaotic. But it’s not. Underlying all this apparent complexity is some wonderfully simple math. Follow the math to your destination. Understanding the primacy of networks will give you a superpower to see what others do not and navigate life’s big decisions more effectively.