Author: Jason D. Rowley
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On concluding paragraphs in academic research papers
“Academic research is kind of like a relay race. It’s your duty, in the concluding paragraph, to set the next runner up to take the baton from where you left off.” – JDR to GRR, 5/5/2015
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Why Is the Merger Called Mayonnaise Loved—& Hated—so Deeply? | Nautilus
While a strong trend in the culinary arts has been to let individual, natural ingredients shine through, one food has quietly come… Source: Why Is the Merger Called Mayonnaise Loved—& Hated—so Deeply? – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
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Alan Kay On Messaging [Quote]
The key in making great and growable systems is much more to design how its modules communicate rather than what their internal properties and behaviors should be. Think of the internet – to live, it (a) has to allow many different kinds of ideas and realizations that are beyond any single standard and (b) to…
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“Do you run away or toward?” ― Richard Powers, Orfeo
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“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.” – David Foster Wallace
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A Few Things I Learned in 2014
Note: This is a cross-post from my Medium blog, originally published in January 2015. I included it here on my website to kick off the new blog. I’d originally intended to share this list of bullet points with a friend. Some are general, some are personal. A few are quite revealing, but I believe that…
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Best of The Halcyon Days
It’s been over two years since I published something to this blog, to which I published assiduously when I was in college at The University of Chicago, but began to neglect when I left to work on Mergenote, a startup of mine. As I figure out what I want to do with my personal homepage,…
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On Overcoming Writer’s Block
I’ve been battling writer’s block. I haven’t posted anything since early August and nothing decent since June 5. I’ve been trying to figure out what happened. It’s not like I’ve been lacking in topics to write and opine about. A lot has happened since early summer: revolutions and social movements at home and abroad, the…
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To The Child Sleeping On The Bus,
You will grow up and do unspeakable things, will perpetrate countless tiny acts of evil on your fellow humans being, and you will become an adult and develop callouses on the soles of your feet because the path to the grave gets increasingly rocky and jagged the farther one walks toward its terminus some ways…