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Tractatus Academic-Capitalismus

An Academic Capitalist savors his unfashionable pursuits.

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The Language of the Gods in the World of Men

Sheldon Pollock’s magisterial work of scholarship, a winner of The Coomaraswamy Book Prize,…

Entrepreneurship People & Places

An Amazing Week! Schwab Fellows, Combating Anti-vax, CMU IFF, Lorentz Transformation

I suppose this is my version of John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight….

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The Next Quantum Revolution?

Had a great trip to the SF area! The weather was perfect….

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Beyond OrganJet: Nudge Videos to Increase Organ and Tissue Consent from Legal Next-of-Kin

In 2010, after a dinner conversation with Baris Ata, I came up with…

Entrepreneurship People & Places

Looking Back: October 7, 2017

It was so exciting to receive a box (on February 9th, 2017)…

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Planned Spontaneity and The Next Pandemic

I was having a civilized lunch with Davide (USRA/NASA), David and Maximiliano…

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A Garden of One’s Own

Voltaire meets Woolf meets Montaigne. There is much to admire in Voltaire,…

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Academic Leisure

Back to the Future

Back to the Future is a science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis. It stars Michael…

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A Sketch of the Past

This post is dedicated to all the SmartOps employees, customers, partners, investors,…

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Entrepreneurship Media

Another month, another SPAC!

You probably saw the WSJ article just a few hours ago: Renewable…

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Academic Leisure

Conspicuous Leisure

Easily one of the most memorable scenes from Downton Abbey is when Maggie…

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A Backward Glance

Yes, let me use Edith Wharton’s memoir as the launch of, and…

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Show, Memory

September 1991. Bright sunny day, with a mild breeze. Standing in line…

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My Paris Review Interviews: Vol. I

Repurposing Orhan Pamuk’s Introduction to Vol. II: When I first read Faulkner Rushdie (in…

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Mathematics and Mythology

Poincare famously said: The art of mathematics is to give the same…

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Mark Twain. Roughing It.

David M. Friedman. Wilde in America.

Hans Christian von Baeyer. QBism.

Robert Iger. The Ride of a Lifetime.

John Burnside. The Music of Time.

Aaron Glantz. Homewreckers.

Michael J. Sandel. The Tyranny of Merit.

Ansgar Allen. Cynicism.

Kevin Brown. Reflections on Relativity.

Wolfram Eilenberger. Time of the Magicians.

P.J.E. Peebles. Cosmology’s Century.

Carol Anderson. White Rage.

Barbara Ehrenreich. Had I Known.

Kip Thorne. The Science of Interstellar.

Muriel Barbery. The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

Arthur Koestler. The Sleepwalkers.

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