Juan Orbea
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A node in a network
Juan Orbea
The following provides a brief overview of the law of accelerating returns as it applies to the double exponential growth of computation. For example, with more powerful computers and related technology, we have the tools and the knowledge to design yet more powerful computers, and to do so more quickly. Independent innovations multiply each... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Crossroad #7 – ReassessmentsAt any point, you can choose to reassess the course you’re on.The network gravity has been building up since your birth and gets stronger over time. Each network adding and integrating with the others, changing the math on your dashboard until it’s near destiny. But you can decide to ignore that network math and forcibly... See more
nfx.com • Your Life Is Driven by Network Effects
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.
Jordan Peterson • - YouTube
We all have a finite amount of time to live, and within that mortal countdown we devote some fraction towards our work. Even for the most career-focused, your life will be filled by many things beyond work. This is the sign of a rich life, but one side-effect is that time to do your work will become increasingly scarce as you get deeper into your... See more
lethain.com • Work on What Matters.
Sadly, we know that many young Americans today do not have the opportunity to reach their potential. Difficult early-childhood experiences and poor instruction in elementary and middle school cause many students to arrive at high school desperately behind in basic skills. I worry that giving underprepared students a report about their aptitudes and... See more
Education Next • First, Know Thyself. Then, Pick a Career Path
I find that the synthesis of psychology and philosophy produces advantages that neither one possesses on its own. It produces a hybridized mode of understanding that is at once intellectually acute and at the same time full of exuberance and human passion, and that can consequently provide a real entry into the greater depth of life.
Eric Dodson • The Charm of Philosophical Psychology
But I regard the freeing of the human mind from its severe physical limitations of scope and duration as the necessary next step in evolution. In making this statement, it is important to emphasize that terms like evolution, destiny, and spiritual quest are observations about the end result, not the basis for these predictions. The primary force... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
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.
Kyle Harrison • Markets, Markets, and Markets
A hard decision is not hard because you can’t seem to “figure it out.” Hard decisions are hard because option A is better in some ways and option B is better in others. “When alternatives are on a par, it may matter very much which you choose, but one alternative isn’t better than the other,” Chang writes. “Rather, the alternatives are in the same neighborhood of value, in the same league of value, while at the same time being very different in kind of value.”