Gonzalo Villaran

instigador | innovación | emprendimiento| AL 💙 | fundador @UTECVentures | cofundador @tumigenomics | @singularityu GSP13 | mediocampo #6 ⚽️

[bayes @bayeslord]

People asked me for an easier to read version of a recent thread. Here it is:

[Gonzalo Villaran @govico]

esta creando mucho mas trafico en esa salida @munilim

[Francisco Belaunde M @fbelmat]

En la Javier Prado, a la salida del zanjón, en sentido hacia La Molina la MML ha construido una separación que impide acceder a la avenida antes de varios metros. Hay un estudio que respalde esa decisión o es una idea que se le ocurrió a alcalde o algún otro funcionario?

[Oscar D. Soto 🍉 正弘 DJ UMESHU 梅酒 @oscarsotojuega]

Las casas de apuestas deben pagar más impuestos. Son un problema de salud pública y deben ser tan desincentivados como el tabaco.

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Norway wins the most medals at the Winter Olympics, with a population of just 5.6 million. People say it’s because Norway is a winter wonderland, but they’re also elite at triathlon, beach volleyball, cycling, and as the world is now seeing, soccer.

A big part of their success is how they treat youth sports—and it’s the opposite of what we do in the US and Canada. Here’s what we can learn from Norway:

1. Scorekeeping:

In the US: Youth sports tend to be hyper competitive even at early ages. Leagues almost always keep score.

In Norway: Scorekeeping isn’t even allowed until age 13.

Removing winners and losers keeps the focus on the process not outcomes. It keeps kids engaged longer because it minimizes pressure (and tears) and maximizes fun, learning, and growth. The goal isn’t to win a third grade championship. It’s to love sport and keep playing.

2. Trophies:

In the US: If you give everyone a trophy, you’re creating snowflakes who will never gain a competitive edge.

In Norway: Whenever trophies are awarded, they are handed out to everyone.

If getting a trophy makes young kids feel good, we should give them trophies. Maybe they’ll come back and play again next year!!

As for the creation of snowflakes with no competitive edge—Norway’s athletes are tough as nails and all they do is win.

3. Prioritizing Fun:

In the US: Far too often, the goal is to win.

In Norway: The national philosophy is “joy of sport.”

Youth sports in the US are driven by adults, ego, and money. Youth sports in Norway are driven by fun.

Only half of kids in the US participate in sports. The number one reason they drop out: because they aren’t having fun anymore. In Norway, 93% of kids participate in youth sports. Fun is the foremost goal.

4. Playing Multiple Sports:

In the US: There’s pressure to specialize early and play your best sport year round.

In Norway: Try as many sports as you can before specializing as late as college.

Norway encourages kids to try all types of sport. This reduces injury and burnout and increases all-around athleticism. It also helps promotes match quality, or finding the sport you are best suited for as your body develops, which is impossible if you commit to a single sport too early.

5. Affordability

In the US: There is increasingly a pay-to-play model with high fees for leagues, equipment, and travel. This excludes many kids from playing.

In Norway: It’s a national priority to keep youth sports affordable and therefore accessible for all.

Kids aren’t priced out, which creates opportunities for everyone to participate (and develop into athletes), regardless of their parents’ income level.

Norway’s sporting success isn’t just speculation or a nice story. A large body of research supports their approach:

• Studies show athletes who specialize later in life have a significantly higher chance of becoming elite.
• Soccer players whose motivation is primarily internal (versus external) have more than a 3x better chance of making it to an elite level.
• The number one predictor of whether or not kids stay in sport is are they having fun.
• Parents connect winning to having fun whereas kids say having fun is about being with their friends and learning.

We could learn a lot from Norway:

In the US, 70% of kids drop out of youth sports by age 13. This not only diminishes an elite-athlete pipeline, but it also destroys an opportunity for healthy habits and all the character lessons kids can learn from sport.

In Norway, lifelong participation in sport is the norm. The goal isn’t to have the best 9U team. It’s to develop the best athletes. Those are two very different things. And Norway has the medals to prove it.

[MisterChip (Alexis) @2010MisterChip]

‼️ RÉCORD HISTÓRICO ‼️

Cabo Verde 🇨🇻 ha cometido SOLO UNA falta en su partido contra España, la cifra MÁS BAJA registrada por una selección en un partido de la Copa del Mundo desde 1966 (primera Copa del Mundo televisada al completo). Los precedentes:

🇨🇷 Costa Rica - 3 faltas (vs Alemania, 2022)
🇩🇪 Alemania - 3 faltas (vs Chile, 1974)

[Gonzalo Villaran @govico]

we may be needing a supranational organization for this. the time to do it is now

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[boz @bloggingsbyboz]

Many countries in the hemisphere are polarized and divided. But Peru, with three straight presidential elections decided by a margin of under 1% of the vote, is on a different scale.

[Ali Yahya @alive_]

Barbell strategy for killing it in an age of superhuman AI:

Simultaneously get as close to AND stay as far away from AI as humanly possible.

1. Get close — play with AI models, use them to help you think, ask them to teach you about the world, get them to help you create, work with them to write code, understand what makes them tick, embed them into your everyday life, have fun.

2. Stay far away — learn to tell stories, make eye contact, build a team, lead with courage, connect far-flung ideas, build lifelong friendships, debate persuasively, think forbidden thoughts, handwrite ideas, confess your fears, fall in love.

Spend less time trying to master mental transformations that are purely mechanical — building spreadsheets, analyzing trades, balancing accounts, writing code by hand, following playbooks, searching for needles in haystacks. These are the emerging no-man's land, squarely the domain of AI.

Venture to the extremes. That’s where all the fun is anyway.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Ideally you want to be dismissed as being on the right by people on the far left and dismissed as being on the left by people on the far right. This is not a sufficient condition for getting things right (choosing positions randomly would achieve it too) but it's a necessary one.

[Weird Old World @Weird_Old_World]

The things you find in the Peruvian desert...
What in the world of geoglyphic rebus is that?!
An eye, an anchor and a crash test target?
How would you interepret these geoglyphs?
Filmed in the Ica desert, not too far from the Nasca lines.
Tomorrow I'll post a video of a lost city I filmed on the same day.

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!

Sea-surface temperature records are being shattered daily, and yet this El Nino is just getting started ...

[Carlos Ganoza Durant @cganozadurant]

La gran mayoría de economistas encuestados por el IPE no ve riesgo de un gobierno de Fuerza Popular sobre la seguridad jurídica, predictibilidad regulatoria, sostenibilidad fiscal o economías ilegales. Pero el comportamiento de FP los últimos 10 años indica lo contrario. 1/

[Gonzalo Villaran @govico]

The creative risk of letting AI do all the work https://t.co/aOKNkAlPyd

[Papa León XIV @Pontifex_es]

Evitemos el “síndrome de Babel”: la idolatría del lucro que sacrifica a los débiles, la uniformidad que aplana las diferencias, la pretensión de un lenguaje único —incluso digital— capaz de traducirlo todo, incluso el misterio de la persona, en datos y rendimientos. Este es el riesgo de la deshumanización: construir el futuro excluyendo a Dios y reduciendo al otro a un medio.

[Hemed @725Hemeed]

🌎 Peru Landcover Map 2024🇵🇪 🗺️
From Andean glaciers to Amazon rainforest — Peru's land cover mapped using ESRI Landcover 2024 by @impactobservatory & @esri and CGIAR-SRTM DEM by @divagis.

#GIS #Cartography #Peru #Landcover #Amazon #Andes #RemoteSensing #Geospatial

[Mobility Behaviour 👨‍🎓 @davidlois_uned]

"Las personas conservadoras parecen ser más susceptibles a desinformación, noticias falsas y teorías de la conspiración, y los productores de desinformación suelen dirigirse específicamente a audiencias con perfil derechista, menos propensas a verificar los hechos"

[Gonzalo Villaran @govico]

https://t.co/5z0EK2BdtF

Como utilizamos la IA para generar concenso?

[Juan Otero @juanoterost]

La U Católica ahora costará en nivel más alto 4656 pago mensual, esta universidad está catalogada en el # 345 a nivel mundial. La universidad de Cambridge para un inglés cuesta el equivalente de 3768 soles al mes, esta universidad está clasificada #6 del mundo.