Category: The Halcyon Days
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Why I Like Writing Fiction (Reason #1)
“I don’t know, Ruth. You seem like such a happy person; I mean, I’ve never seen you less than glowing with anybody. But I have a question for you: your prettiness, all the attention, do you ever find it oppressive? Like, because men just like the idea of themselves being ‘with’ someone as pretty as…
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The Halcyon Days Gets a Facelift, or “Denim is Beautiful”
In the continuing re-work of The Halcyon Days, I’ve changed the header image, and I redesigned the HD Facebook page logo, which I’ll get around to replacing soon enough. Below is an uncropped version of the header, and a full-size version of the Facebook page logo.
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Four Things Which Will Make April a Plethora of Win
April is going to be an über-spectacular month. My agenda items: I’m working with best friends Ted Gonder and Morgan Hartley, with huge help from Vicki Peng and Paul Morimoto to make the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour event at UChicago on April 8th the greatest thing to happen on campus since the Maroons last won a…
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On Being an Entrepreneur: A Maker’s Manifesto
Below is an excerpt of an essay I wrote for Flyover Geeks. Read the whole thing here. As the (very) unofficial higher-education reporter for Flyover Geeks, I’ve said a lot about college, what’s wrong with it, some of its good bits, and how it needs to change. The first piece I published here was about…
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Shelf Space {Flash Fiction}
This story is missing something, just one paragraph. Something to put after “I showed you.” While I’m waiting for that paragraph to hit me, I’ll just let the piece camp out here. – – – Do you remember when we first met? When you were lost in a city strange to you, where I helped…
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A New ‘Days’ Dawns
Welcome to the new, and surprisingly unchanged, Halcyon Days. In the past week, I’ve successfully migrated over from WordPress.com to self-hosting. (This gives me considerably more freedom to customize readers’ experience.) Additionally, I’ve programmed a little Facebook application which automatically updates my (not your) activity feed with new posts. Finally, I’ve done a little bit…
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Pardon our Dust: The Halcyon Days is Currently Under Construction
All, I am dreadfully sorry for the delays in the WordPress.org install, but my hosting provider has been slow in putting my changes to the back-end routing configuration into effect. (For the technical: Supposedly, DNS changes are to be processed within 24 hours. It took GoDaddy almost 40.) JasonDRowley.com should be up and running relatively…
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The Halcyon Days Will Experience Some Technical Issues
Dear All, I’m migrating The Halcyon Days over to a self-hosted implementation through WordPress.org. Interruption in service to jasondrowley.com is expected, but should not last more than the next 24-48 hours, depending on my attention span. In the meantime, The Halcyon Days will be available at jasondrowley.wordpress.com. My primary motivation for switching to self-hosting is…
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The Myth of Market Bubbles, or “On Crashing Waves”
The term “market bubble” is a misnomer. What begins as a teeny sliver of a trend, spawned of some prediction or cause unknown, moves forward. They propagate, and just like a nascent tsunami, small reverberations go unnoticed.