Author: Jason D. Rowley
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WOtD: Legerdemain
The word is “Legerdemain”. It is a noun. OED definitions include: Sleight of hand; the performance of tricks which by nimble action deceive the eye; jugglery; conjuring tricks. Trickery, deception, hocus-pocus. a) transf. and fig. Trickery, deception, hocus-pocus. b) An instance of this; a trick, a juggle. Obs. A sleight-of-hand performer, a conjurer. Obs. rare attrib. or…
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SF Was Killing Me
Reading Larry Finn’s blog post on the San Francisco Bubble prompted me to resurrect this ~1640-word stream of consciousness from the Drafts folder of my WordPress installation. I wrote this approximately 4 months ago. In lieu of tying up its ending into some nice concluding thoughts, I’ll just publish it here as is. Almost exactly two months…
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A Reading List for First-time & Aspiring Entrepreneurs
In the past few of months, I’ve really enjoyed having coffee with folks who are just starting to figure out what they want to do with their lives. (I am still very much in the same boat.) When I was eighteen or nineteen years old, I had no clue what I was doing, and although I was…
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2016: The Year of Better Time Wastage
I am going to be honest with myself here: I spend an unfathomable amount of time procrastinating important things. It was especially true this past year, during which I dropped back into college to finally finish. Although I did accomplish some legitimately good things as a result of procrastination – like downloading a small library of academic…
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China Journal, Entry 4. “Raid”
<< CHINA JOURNAL >> Dec 15, ’15, 2:45 AM What. The. Fuck. So our hotel has very thin walls. I was awoken out of a very sound sleep by some guy shouting in Mandarin at the next door over. The guy was forceful but calm at first. Then he barked again, louder and more angrily,…
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China Trip Journal, Entries 1 & 2
Below are the first entries in a small journal I’m keeping to chronicle my first trip to China. I’m here on what may be the last school-organized trip I ever go on. We’re currently in Beijing. I flew in this morning from Chicago by way of Seoul. We head to Shanghai in a few days.…
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The Bitcoin Network is 11000x Faster than the Top 500 Supercomputers Combined
I had a meeting today with an e-commerce company which believes that they can achieve anonymous shipping through Bitcoin. In it, I’ll be examining particular social structures found in the Bitcoin network. I will also discuss in the meeting of how much I’ve been dabbling in cryptocurrency Australia trading and how lucrative it’s been so…
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Tragedy Porn
If it bleeds, it reads. That’s been the rule for a long time. It seems like the morbid appeal of tales of mishap and catastrophe is hardwired, just like interest in the erotic. In both cases, demand has been met by a supply historically constrained by the technological limitations of media and the speed of information. Blue film houses, adult bookstores,…
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This One Weird iOS9 Bug Made Me Briefly Speculate About TouchID’s Potential for My Laptop
For the life of me I cannot seem to reproduce the bug, but I swear to the deity of your choosing that this morning, my iPhone 6 (currently running iOS 9.0 build 13A344) entered Apple Pay mode while it was plugged into my rMBP. I have no card readers on my couch, but it got…