Juan Orbea

Rushkoff unpacks parts of his new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, on the need to collectively break away from a top-down mindset to embrace circularity and resiliency. 

An overview of a person’s top 3 archetypes, which includes tendencies, talents, and opportunities for growth;

Whatever it is, things that simply won’t happen if you don’t do them are your biggest opportunity to work on something that matters, and it’s a category that will get both narrower and deeper the further you get into your career.

Is the Human Brain Different from a Computer?

Do you relate to the other students naturally? Will they relate to you? Do the students represent the type of aspirations, lifestyle, and interests you want for yourself? There’s no point in joining a network where you won’t actually bond with the other nodes, no matter how prestigious that network is.

You might imagine that roughly around the time when TARP and the various bail-out decisions were being made, that it could have gone either way, and that we could have, for example, allowed the too-big-to-fail entities to fail, and that it would have had negative consequences at the financial layer, negative consequences probably at the economic... See more

If that were unavoidable it would be one thing, but Chris thinks we’re nowhere near communicating existing knowledge as well as we could.