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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,…

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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…

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Looking Back: October 7, 2017

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

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Casablanca, Corsendonk, Como

Celebrating 25+ years of friendship with Hau Lee on the occasion of POMS honoring him.

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A Tale of Two Emails

Introducing Quantum Sustainability!

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Slumming It?

An Academic Capitalist refreshes Mark Twain.

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Q-AHA: Quantum Algorithms, Hardware, Applications

Announcing the 2021 Tayur Prize.

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NSF Engineering Distinguished Lecture!

I received an email (that I initially ignored, modifying Groucho Marx’s maxim,…

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The Importance of Being Playful

Continuing Portrait of an Academic Capitalist as a Young Man, but switching…

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Brahmin Left + Merchant Right

An Academic Capitalist reads Piketty’s 2018 working paper.

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Trillion Dollars of Inventory

On September 13th, I received this email from Mark Lewis (Director, Cornell…

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The Taj Mahal

After six months of being closed, the Taj Mahal opened, and as…

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Serverless Blockchain

For the non-technical folks, Serverless does not mean no server. 😏 What…

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