Jason D. Rowley

Author: Jason D. Rowley

  • An Excerpt From a Short Story I Am Writing: Code Switcher – I

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    The following is a brief excerpt from a short story I’ve been working on. It’s called Code Switcher, and it plays around with multiple-personality disorder and the idea that one or more of the personalities might be autonomous. I’ve got a lot of brain research to work on, which means it will be awhile before…

  • A Quick Thought On Awesome

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    I want to find something awesome, you know, in the 19th century sense of the word ‘Awesome’. I’ve never really sat in awe of anything before. In finding what I find awesome, I will find what I want to do with my life.

  • Lab42

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    Lab42 is one of the young, nimble startups carving out a niche in Chicago’s growing tech community. Specifically, Jonathan Pirc and Laura Rokita, the team behind Lab42, are forging ahead to establish an altogether new category of market research firm. It is market research reinvented for the social-media landscape.

  • Who Says Facebook Killed Smart Public Discourse?

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    Me. Yeah, I said it. Facebook killed intelligent conversation. Occasionally though, intelligent people, like my friend and UNAI co-conspirator Patrick Ip, post a quote from another (ostensibly) intelligent person on their Facebook feeds (né “walls”), and somehow, without rhyme or reason, a torrent of responses issues forth.

  • On Haiku

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    I bought a book of haiku last week. I admired its contents for its simplicity, a certain sparseness. They are bleak and uplifting, simultaneously. They also contain a universal grammar and reference structure which I’ve written out below in the form of haiku. Exhibit of calm evoking a grey feeling– One delicate thing.

  • Careerism is Dead.

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    I’m now blogging for Flyover Geeks, a Chicago-based blog aiming to be the TechCrunch of the midwest, the “flyover states”. I’ve been tasked with writing about college, entrepreneurship, and my opinion of both/either of them. Here, on The Halcyon Days, I’ve posted the first paragraph of my Flyover Geeks post, “Careerism is Dead”. It is…

  • On “The Road” & A Paper Written About Same

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    The world is a harsh, ugly, vicious, horrifying place sometimes. Sometimes. Although most of the time aforesaid meanness is a product of the imagination, it is, on occasion, actually so. However, the man and the boy in McCarthy’s novel survive their ordeal because they will themselves to do so.

  • Quotes from Current Reading: Generosity (pt. 2)

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    “The girl’s own parents–the last cosmopolitan Algerians not on a boat somewhere–resolve to leave when the death toll reaches eighty thousand. Then they say ninety. Then one hundred. They’re still there when the deaths reach one thousand a week. They are the victims of that old habit, faith. not religious faith, which they long ago…

  • On Writing (with [much] Help) a Declaration to the United Nations

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    I extend my most sincere thanks to my seven co-collaborators who helped me draft a cogent, articulate declaration establishing students’ equity stake in the United Nations Academic Impact initiative. I never thought I’d be a part of something like this, and although the vicissitudinous nature of the United Nations irks me so, I am proud…

  • #LessonsLearned @SWChi

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    It’s kind of like speed-dating. You’ve got this little window of 10-20 seconds in which you must capture your audience’s attention and engender the ineffable, refulgent glow of potential recognized. You know, to kick that internal monologue: “That, man… THAT idea’s got LEGS!” How’d I get me summa that? Or at least that’s how I…