RSS Feed
Contact Information
Email: danny.crichton@gmail.com
About the Author
Danny Crichton is passionate about many things, including web development, entrepreneurship, labor economics, diplomacy, and East Asia. He is currently traveling in South Korea this year before returning to Silicon Valley to continue changing the world through the Internet.
You can find my contact information, resume, research and projects on my personal website.
This website is not affiliated with any of my current or former employers.
Categories
Archives
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- May 2009
Blogroll
Category Archives: Education
Why Vinod Khosla is Wrong on Gamification of Education
Vinod Khosla, writing on TechCrunch in his continuing series on how algorithms are going to replace everything, believes that there are two trends in the future confluence of the internet and the web: decentralization and gamification. His arguments regarding decentralization … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Internet, Technology, Uncategorized, United States
3 Comments
Image of the Week: Stanford’s Influence in Korea
KAIST (which, like the SAT, officially means nothing, but at one point meant the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) was originally proposed as part of a US Agency for International Development mission back in 1970. That committee was chaired … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Education, Features, Higher Education, Image of the Week, Korea, Stanford
Comments Off
Why Stanford students should work on Wall St.
Teryn Norris and Eli Pollak have written a strongly-worded editorial today in the Stanford Daily blasting the finance industry’s recruitment of top students. To quote: Why are graduates flocking to Wall Street? Beyond the simple allure of high salaries, investment banks … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Economics, Education, Foreign Affairs, Higher Education, Industrial Policy, Japan, Politics, Science, Stanford, United States
6 Comments
Steve Jobs, America and the Future
The death of Steve Jobs this week has certainly generated a lot of coverage and analysis. While the obituaries and retrospectives are typical surrounding the death of any notable public figure, it was perhaps surprising to see how much analysis … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Education, Engineering, Higher Education, Politics
Comments Off
How to Major in the Humanities
Yesterday, I discussed my lack of sympathy for students who majored in the humanities without any particular direction – and who then end up waiting tables as described in a recent New York Times article. In that post, I also commented … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Higher Education, Liberal Arts
Comments Off
How much sympathy for unemployed graduates?
The New York Times has a piece on our generation’s acceptance of low employment prospects – a cultural shift they call “Generation Limbo” Meet the members of what might be called Generation Limbo: highly educated 20-somethings, whose careers are stuck in neutral, … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Education, Higher Education, Labor Economics, Liberal Arts, United States
7 Comments