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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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Category Archives: United States
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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The End of Democracy? [2]
Democracy is supposed to provide a means of aggregating diverse views into a coherent, consistent outcome. However, what happens when activists, interest groups, special interests, and other organizations start to understand the policy process so well that government screeches to … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, United States
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Image of the Week: US-Korea Free Trade Protests
The issue of free trade is a contentious one in Korea. The passage this past week of the US-Korean Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was a win for the sitting presidential administration and the conservative Grand National Party, but led to … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Economics, Features, Foreign Affairs, Image of the Week, Korea, Politics, United States
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What scares me about Mitt Romney
This article by New York Magazine has a relatively even-handed narrative of the man that is increasingly appearing to be the Republican candidate for President this year. Mitt Romney has an incredibly strong business background, and has truly reshaped the … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Politics, United States, Vietnam
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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
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The End of Democracy?
I was thinking yesterday about finding polling data about people’s faith in the basic tenets of democracy and human rights – questions like whether people felt that governments were responsive to their needs, do they think that special interests dominate political decision-making, … Continue reading