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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.
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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
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Wow – Defense Budget Must be Getting Really Bad
From Thomas E. Ricks: People who joined the military since 9/11, when the money spigot was opened full, have no sense of the budget environment they are heading into. Kind of reminds me of the time during the Depression when … Continue reading
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Stanford Plays Catch-Up on Satellite Campuses
See my new piece on Stanford’s strategic positioning here.
Posted in Education, Higher Education, Stanford, Uncategorized
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Where I’ve Been: Five Take-Aways on the Humanities at Stanford
Informed Skeptic has been quiet over the past few weeks, largely due to a writing series I was developing with the Stanford Review on the future of the Humanities at Stanford. The pieces, variously co-written with Lisa Wallace and Alessandra … Continue reading
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Shameless Self Promotion: Oman Democracy Works
In an article in the NYTimes, Nicholas D. Kristof discusses the changing experience of Oman over the past few decades. Once fundamentalist, the country has modernized at a breathtaking pace, and today is one of the most open and tolerant … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Uncategorized
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Short Post: Student Load Debt Higher than Consumer Debt
From the Wall Street Journal: “Americans owe some $826.5 billion in revolving credit, according to June 2010 figures from the Federal Reserve. (Most of revolving credit is credit-card debt.) Student loans outstanding today — both federal and private — total … Continue reading
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