Author: Jason D. Rowley
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College Killed Christmas
I’d be much more inclined to enjoy Christmas if I didn’t learn from my coursework that it derives from an androcentric hegemony (via implicitly female-oppressing rules/expectations of domesticity) concomitant to the Victorian era and the wild contrivances of a one Charles Dickens. Furthermore, college also taught me that Christmas takes place at the end of the…
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From Generosity, On Human Capability and Love
Here is a quote from Richard Powers’s novel, Generosity. After several months of off-and-on reading, I finished it today. Saint Augustine, the old Berber, once wrote, Factus est Deus homo ut homo fieret Deus: God became man so that man might become God. He also said, even more popularly, Dilige et quod vis fac: Love,…
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An Extremely Random Thought
This is the product of a day of reading… which is to say that I was extremely prone to believing my thoughts to be particularly insightful. I wrote it in my Moleskine notebook, excited as all getout. You be the judge. – – – What if all mass is fluid, its solidity an illusion–a function…
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Why Young Geeks Leave School
For this series, I’ve Skyped gawky, venture-capitalized college kids who’re still grappling with acne. It seems as though tech entrepreneurs are getting younger.
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Lessons – 1
[257] The illusion of facts will suffice. [272] Reality-based art hijacks its material and doesn’t apologize. [255] Facts now seem important.
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The Declaration of Student Involvement in the United Nations Academic Impact
Click the link to view & download the newly-revised Declaration of Student Involvement in UNAI/ASPIRE (in .PDF format). In an earlier post, I publicized a Declaration student leaders of the UNAI initiative wrote. Not to take credit for the thoughts of other people, it was I who did the bulk of the writing. I did not, however,…
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5 Einstein Quotes To Which I Owe My Current Sanity & Perspective
Albert Einstein, for reasons too numerous to go into here, is a personal hero of mine. “Avuncular” is a good word to describe him; he is the deadly-smart uncle with crazy hair we all want… that is, until one learns about his personal life. But, nonetheless, his public persona is one I respect immensely. His…
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Thiel’s 20-20 Vision: Stop Out of College
Here is the first paragraph of a post I wrote for Flyover Geeks, the remainder of which can be found here. The average cost of a college education at a private institution is just short of $37,000 per year, according to an NPR survey last October. One important question students ask themselves when entering is, “What…