Jason D. Rowley

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  • An Extremely Random Thought

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    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…

  • Fixing “Social Entrepreneurship” – Pt. I

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    Idea of the day: I’ve had a lot of issues with the notion of “Social Entrepreneurship” for a long time now. Instead of white guys going into predominantly nonwhite countries, acting all patronizing, as if they are the “only ones who are willing to help these people“, it might be more efficacious (and less colonialist)…

  • Thiel’s 20-20 Vision: Stop Out of College

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    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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • A Quote from Current Reading: Generosity by Richard Powers

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    “From where I sit, the whole human race did something stupid when young–pulled some playful stunt that damages someone. The secret of survival is forgetting. If evolution favored conscience, everything with a backbone would have hanged itself from the ceiling fan eons ago, and invertebrates would once again be running the place.” – Richard Powers,…

  • In Philadelphia, Waiting for My Flight

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    Currently, I’m sitting in the Philadelphia airport in terminal F and looking skeptically at a rickety propellor plane which I am supposed to board.. Looking around, there are the average people one might expect to see in an airport, or a mall, or in the waiting room of a doctor’s office.  Overwhelmingly plain, some pasty,…