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Photos from TEDxUChicago. Photos by JDR.
More will be added over the coming days. Check back. © 2011 JDR Photo. All Rights Reserved.
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Introducing “JDR Found”
For a long time, I’ve used Facebook as a repository for links and photos I find online. After trying to find an easy way to access all the content I posted, to no avail, I’ve decided to stow my findings on a Tumblr blog, which I’m calling JDR Found. There is no real theme to JDR…
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Poetic Side Effects
Poetic Side Effects: The result of looking at a water molecule and being able to predict rainbows, or inventing the motor vehicle and predict that dogs will cheerfully stick their faces out into the oncoming wind. – Douglas Coupland, Player One: What Is to Become of Us
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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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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…