All Posts
- Dec 31, 2023: Best Articles I Read (2023 Edition)
- Dec 31, 2023: Best Books I Read (2023 Edition)
- Dec 31, 2023: Best Articles I Wrote (2023 Edition)
- Feb 21, 2023: Ecospirituality in the age of population growth
- Feb 20, 2023: Outline of “A Savage War of Peace” by Alistair Horne
- Feb 20, 2023: 10 Years after “Academic Revolution and Regional Innovation: The Case of Computer Science at Stanford 1957-1970”
- Dec 31, 2022: Best Articles I Read (2022 Edition)
- Dec 31, 2022: Best Articles I Wrote (2022 Edition)
- Dec 31, 2022: Best Books I Read (2022 Edition)
- Nov 21, 2022: Skepticism, optimism, truth and an updated writing review
- Jun 14, 2022: Marginal stupidity, decadence, and more writing
- Jun 9, 2022: Is “decadence” even a useful concept?
- Jun 7, 2022: The subplots of China
- May 11, 2022: How disposable is Miami?
- Jan 15, 2022: Can the delocalization and deglobalization of American news ever be undone?
- Jan 8, 2022: A 2021 Retrospective from Danny Crichton
- Jan 8, 2022: Best Articles I Read (2021 Edition)
- Jan 3, 2022: Best Articles I Wrote (2021 Edition)
- Jan 3, 2022: Best Books I Read (2021 Edition), plus several books that disappointed
- Nov 29, 2021: Some notes on crypto, capitalism, climate change and antitrust
- Dec 31, 2020: Best Articles I Read (2020 Edition)
- Dec 31, 2020: Best Books I Read (2020 Edition)
- Dec 31, 2020: Best Articles I Wrote (2020 Edition)
- Sep 22, 2020: Gangster Capitalism, more Palantir discussion, and reading recs
- Sep 12, 2020: "A New World Begins" and the meaning of the French Revolution
- Sep 8, 2020: Post-Labor Day writing updates and article recommendations
- Sep 6, 2020: “The Index of Self-Destructive Acts” is about the tension between humanity and raw data
- Aug 29, 2020: Palantir, China, plus the future of startups and neighborhoods
- Mar 22, 2020: Reflections on the PhD I didn’t do
- Mar 21, 2020: Wow, what a Q1
- Dec 25, 2019: Best Articles I Wrote (2019 Edition)
- Dec 25, 2019: Best Books I Read (2019 Edition)
- Dec 22, 2019: Best Articles I Read (2019 Edition)
- Aug 26, 2019: How I use Anki to learn Korean
- Jul 3, 2019: Book Review: Will & Ariel Durant’s The Lessons of History
- Jun 30, 2019: Book Review: Nigel Collett’s A Death in Hong Kong
- Jan 1, 2019: Best Articles I Wrote (2018 Edition)
- Jan 1, 2019: Best Articles I Read (2018 Edition)
- Dec 30, 2018: Two dystopias for the holidays: We & The Handmaid’s Tale
- Dec 21, 2018: Writing Review for Week of Dec 17, 2018
- Dec 14, 2018: Writing Review for Weeks of Dec 3 & 10, 2018
- Nov 24, 2018: Writing Review for Weeks of Nov 12 & 19, 2018
- Nov 10, 2018: Writing Review for Weeks of Oct 29 & Nov 5, 2018
- Oct 28, 2018: Writing Review for Weeks of Oct 15 & 22, 2018
- Oct 13, 2018: Writing Review for Weeks of Oct 1 & 8, 2018
- Sep 30, 2018: Writing Review for Week of Sept 24, 2018
- Sep 21, 2018: Writing Review for Week of Sept 17, 2018
- Sep 14, 2018: Writing Review for Week of Sept 10, 2018
- Sep 10, 2018: Writing Review for Weeks of Aug 1-Sept 9, 2018
- Aug 4, 2018: Writing Review for Week of July 30, 2018
- Jul 29, 2018: Writing Review for Week of July 23, 2018
- Jul 20, 2018: Writing Review for Weeks of July 9th & July 16th, 2018
- Jul 9, 2018: Writing Review for Week of July 2nd, 2018
- Jun 29, 2018: Writing Review for Week of June 25th, 2018
- Jun 23, 2018: Writing Review for Week of June 18th, 2018
- Jun 17, 2018: Writing Review for Week of June 11th, 2018
- Jun 11, 2018: Writing Review for Week of June 4th, 2018
- May 31, 2018: Ethics
- Apr 6, 2018: Venture Capital Disrupted (Princeton 2018 Spring Lecture)
- Jan 9, 2018: How much do we really know?
- Dec 28, 2017: My Favorite Books of the Year 2017
- Dec 18, 2017: The Problem of Books
- Oct 31, 2017: What Happens When All Content Is Just Pee In The Pool
- Oct 28, 2017: Why is Communication Around (Work) Promotions / Salaries So Bad?
- Oct 27, 2017: What Would You Do If You Could Reinvent Government?
- Oct 20, 2017: 2017 and Regulated Businesses (Princeton Fall 2017 Lecture)
- Oct 16, 2017: Why Millennials Won't Run For Public Office
- Oct 15, 2017: Why is American Disaster Recovery So Bad?
- Oct 2, 2017: Economic Nationalism and China: The Right Issue for 2018 and 2020?
- Oct 1, 2017: The Strange Politics of Independence Movements
- Sep 30, 2017: Capsule Review: Cixin Liu’s Three Body Problem
- Sep 29, 2017: A Comprehensive Guide to Using Airtable as a Personal CRM
- Sep 27, 2017: Some Quick Thoughts on The Other Side of the Table
- Aug 2, 2017: The Economic Security of High Rents and Ridiculous Job Licensing
- Jul 22, 2017: Safety is the Watchword of Cost Disease
- Jul 18, 2017: The Problem With Subscription Software/Media Is High Prices
- Jul 17, 2017: Startups, Income Inequality, and the Basic Economy
- Jul 2, 2017: Will Autonomous Cars Destroy Cities As We Know Them?
- Jul 1, 2017: The Age of Investigative Tech Journalism
- Jun 17, 2017: Is war with China inevitable?
- Apr 14, 2017: Searching for that Yellow Brick Road (Princeton Spring 2017 Lecture)
- Jan 11, 2017: Good Lord, Of Course Red Lights Will Still Be Here With Autonomous Cars
- Jan 5, 2017: RipVanWinkle.js — Returning to JavaScript After 5 Years
- Jan 3, 2017: “Artificial Intelligence” & “Big Data” Are Newest Entries to My 2017 Dictionary of Uselessness
- Nov 11, 2016: Princeton Fall 2016 Lecture
- Oct 13, 2016: The Future Public Transit Explosion
- Oct 11, 2016: Leaderless Rounds and the Problem of Weasel.vc
- Sep 22, 2016: Observations on NYC Tech
- Aug 31, 2016: Housing Rant (Part Infinity) and the Economics of Hookups
- Aug 30, 2016: Housing Prices Should Go Down - Duh!
- Aug 30, 2016: The Desperate Docker Disaster
- Aug 21, 2016: What I Have Been Reading (Summer 2016)
- Jul 6, 2016: The Desperate Waves of Venture Capital
- Jun 29, 2016: A Plan For New York
- Jun 28, 2016: Some Final Thoughts On Boston
- May 16, 2016: Graph Associations for Language Learning
- May 15, 2016: I Quit: 2+ Years of Anki and the (Near) Impossibility of Learning Languages
- Mar 21, 2016: Is San Francisco Too Expensive For Startups?
- Jan 10, 2016: Political Disintegration and Realignment
- Jan 4, 2016: Reading Less, But Better
- Jan 2, 2016: What I Read Last Year (2016 Edition)
- Dec 2, 2015: The Housing Paradox
- Dec 1, 2015: The Radical Idea of $1000/mo Rent
- Nov 30, 2015: Universities Churn Out Junk, And Get Paid For It
- Nov 10, 2015: Can We Just Ban Outrage?
- Oct 29, 2015: Where Do You Find Strategic Writers?
- Oct 28, 2015: Some Thoughts About the Work of Tech Journalists in 2015
- Oct 27, 2015: Boston's Seaport and Its Planning Disaster
- Oct 26, 2015: The Asshole Test of Human Resources Products
- Oct 23, 2015: A New Website and the Dangers of Stupid Optimization
- Sep 20, 2015: The Road To A Better World (Or My New Investment Thesis)
- Aug 5, 2015: Short Thoughts On Current Engineer Salaries in Silicon Valley
- Jul 27, 2015: Some Reflections On Teaching
- Jul 26, 2015: What I'm Working On (July 2015)
- Jul 13, 2015: A Quick Comment on Urban Planning
- Jun 29, 2015: Ranking The World
- Jun 19, 2015: Discussion: Lauren Rivera's Pedigree on Elite Students and Elite Jobs
- Jun 15, 2015: What I'm Working On (June 2015)
- Jun 5, 2015: Haiti and the Importance of Area Studies in Development
- Jun 2, 2015: Why Public Policy Professionals So Often Have The Wrong Answers
- May 22, 2015: Tips are wrong and should be banned
- May 19, 2015: Should America Move To A Test-Based College Admissions System?
- May 17, 2015: Foreign Languages Are Boring To Learn, So How Do We Make It Easier?
- Apr 1, 2015: The World Bank's Greatest Future Threat
- Feb 9, 2015: Hillary Clinton, Brian Williams, and the Issue of Military Trust
- Jan 27, 2015: No, Algorithms Don't Devalue Humans
- Jan 23, 2015: Does Cable News Even Matter Anymore?
- Jan 20, 2015: Why We Should be Concerned About Fact-Checking Websites
- Jan 16, 2015: Three Short Thoughts on Doing a PhD
- Jan 15, 2015: Does a President's Background Even Matter?
- Jan 14, 2015: The New Dynasty Politics of the United States
- Sep 18, 2014: Depression, Suicide, and the Future of Mental Health
- Aug 21, 2014: Should Workers Own the Algorithms?
- Jul 14, 2014: In cutting foreign exchanges, Obama Administration demonstrates short-term thinking
- Jun 26, 2014: The Challenge of Korea's Narrow Political Culture
- Apr 22, 2014: The New Wave of Global Journalism (Key Platform 2014 Presentation)
- Apr 9, 2014: What no one asks about college admissions data
- Mar 20, 2014: Website Owners, Stop Controlling my Copy and Paste
- Mar 19, 2014: The Startup Life (Korea University 2014 Lecture)
- Mar 7, 2014: Startup Toolkit (Born2Global 2014 Lecture)
- Feb 1, 2014: Two Posts on TechCrunch
- Jan 23, 2014: How far can Bitcoin take us?
- Jan 22, 2014: Korean Human Jaw Plastic Surgery Sculpture a Thing of Unusual Wonder
- Jan 20, 2014: What you can't show in a South Korean movie poster
- Sep 27, 2013: Why elitism still matters in crowdfunding
- Sep 24, 2013: Blind Spots: The Most Underinvested Areas of Venture
- Sep 22, 2013: Disappearing Ladders
- May 15, 2013: Should you have Institutional VCs in your Seed Round?
- May 14, 2013: Why the Possible Waze Exit is So Important to Israel's Ecosystem
- Apr 22, 2013: Why we need data rights
- Apr 20, 2013: Hiatus Over
- Jan 31, 2013: Brief Blogging Hiatus
- Dec 1, 2012: The More Negative View of Korea's Growth (Korean)
- Nov 25, 2012: The decline of the BRICs, but the rise of Korea?
- Nov 23, 2012: Book Forum - <i>The Syrian Rebellion</i> by Fouad Ajami
- Nov 22, 2012: Awesome Map of Seoul's Start-up Scene
- Nov 22, 2012: Update on Korean Studies
- Nov 12, 2012: The More Negative View of Korea's Growth
- Nov 11, 2012: The decline of the BRICs, but the rise of Korea?
- Nov 10, 2012: Update on Korean Studies
- Nov 10, 2012: Election Wrap-up - The Supreme Irony of Mitt Romney
- Oct 28, 2012: Awesome Map of Seoul's Start-up Scene
- Oct 24, 2012: Government Regulation and Outrage
- Oct 15, 2012: Book Notes - <i>Triumph of the City</i> by Edward Glaeser
- Oct 15, 2012: The Competitive Pressure of Labor Economics
- Oct 4, 2012: Japan's Becoming More Entrepreneurial?
- Oct 3, 2012: Japan's Becoming More Entrepreneurial?
- Oct 3, 2012: AniPang (애니팡) Spreading as Fast as Animals Pop
- Oct 3, 2012: The Competitive Pressure of Labor Economics
- Oct 3, 2012: Why Consultants Need to Get the Hell Out of College
- Oct 2, 2012: AniPang (애니팡) Spreading as Fast as Animals Pop
- Sep 16, 2012: LTE iPhone for Korea?
- Sep 9, 2012: Crowdsourced Funding Assists Eat Your Kimchi Writers
- Sep 9, 2012: LTE iPhone for Korea?
- Sep 8, 2012: Pedestrian Boulevards, or Why I Love Santa Monica!
- Sep 8, 2012: The Three Most Important Words in Silicon Valley
- Sep 5, 2012: Economic Changes in North Korea?
- Sep 4, 2012: Protectionism - Every Country Does It
- Aug 31, 2012: Are Entrepreneurship and Test Scores Inversely Related?
- Aug 27, 2012: Coding impact - are we losing software engineers?
- Aug 27, 2012: Yes, Samsung Errored in its Fast-Follow Strategy
- Aug 26, 2012: An Increase in Innovation at Samsung?
- Aug 26, 2012: The Importance of Intellectual Diversity in Academic Disciplines
- Aug 26, 2012: The top 10 best quotes from Morozov's book review
- Aug 22, 2012: The Problem with Multiple Realities
- Jul 30, 2012: Site Update - New Mobile Theme
- Jul 27, 2012: Managing the Bad Tech Narrative - The Case of Google
- Jul 27, 2012: The Economic Calculus of Education
- Jul 9, 2012: What Makes Entrepreneurship Attractive?
- Jun 29, 2012: Finally, Someone Starts Talking About the Developmental State
- Jun 29, 2012: Site Update -- Back in the United States
- Jun 18, 2012: Why Yammer should have been Google+'s strategy
- Jun 13, 2012: The Fundamental Dilemma of Start-ups Today
- Jun 12, 2012: Thoughts on Migrating from Wordpress to Jekyll
- May 31, 2012: Innovation Hubs and Engineering Education in Korea
- May 21, 2012: Growing Korea's Innovation Garden (KAIST Lecture 2012)
- Apr 20, 2012: Steve Jobs, South Korea and the Search for Innovation (Fulbright Forum 2012 Lecture)
- Mar 11, 2012: NYT Teardown: The Go-Nowhere Generation
- Mar 9, 2012: Snobs, Contraception, Denialism and the Presidential Race
- Mar 8, 2012: Image of the Week: Japanese, Volcanoes, and Tangerines (Jeju Part 3/3)
- Mar 7, 2012: Why I am afraid to donate to The Stanford Fund
- Feb 16, 2012: Image of the Week: Jeju Island Rocks! (Jeju Part 2/3)
- Feb 10, 2012: Image of the Week: Lava Caves and Waterfalls (Jeju Part 1/3)
- Jan 27, 2012: Image of the Week: Traditional Family Lunar New Year Celebration
- Jan 18, 2012: Why Vinod Khosla is Wrong on Gamification of Education
- Jan 16, 2012: The Danger of Models of Development (or, how culture really matters)
- Jan 10, 2012: Image of the Week: Korean Hanbok Market and Random Snow
- Jan 1, 2012: Image of the Week: Suwon and Hwaseong Fortress
- Dec 10, 2011: Android versus iOS: The Power of Culture and Tools
- Dec 7, 2011: The End of Democracy? [2]
- Nov 27, 2011: Image of the Week: US-Korea Free Trade Protests
- Nov 6, 2011: Image of the Week: Incredible Photos from the Seoul Lantern Festival
- Oct 26, 2011: What scares me about Mitt Romney
- Oct 25, 2011: Image of the Week: Stanford's Influence in Korea
- Oct 11, 2011: Why Stanford students should work on Wall St.
- Oct 10, 2011: Image of the Week: The Multifunctional Administrative City
- Oct 9, 2011: Steve Jobs, America and the Future
- Oct 6, 2011: Image of the Week: Finding the Lost Arc in the Strangest Korean Ghost City
- Sep 28, 2011: The End of Democracy?
- Sep 26, 2011: Image of the Week: Urban Development and The World Without Us
- Sep 19, 2011: Image of the Week: Kick It!
- Sep 9, 2011: Image of the Week: Innovation in Transportation
- Sep 3, 2011: How to Major in the Humanities
- Sep 2, 2011: How much sympathy for unemployed graduates?
- Aug 30, 2011: Image of the Week: Modernity in South Korea
- Aug 30, 2011: Why America Needs an Industrial Policy
- Aug 27, 2011: How Software is Destroying Society
- Jul 12, 2011: Some Thoughts for the Week of July 11
- Jul 12, 2011: Wow - Defense Budget Must be Getting Really Bad
- Jul 9, 2011: Will America continue to have a public education system?
- Jul 3, 2011: Will Osama bin Laden win the Global War on Terror?
- Jun 28, 2011: It's about Quality - not Quantity (and damn that's hard)
- Jun 17, 2011: Will the Internet as we know it exist in 10 years?
- Jun 16, 2011: Short: Congressional Gym Debacle - Let's Keep It
- Jun 9, 2011: I'd Vote for Huntsman (But he is never going to make it)
- Jun 9, 2011: Why wage-data transparency is a bad idea
- May 17, 2011: Thesis Done
- Apr 26, 2011: Nature's Special on the PhD: Are we in a bubble?
- Apr 16, 2011: Decline of Transfer Admissions at Stanford
- Mar 23, 2011: Transfer Admits to Stanford
- Mar 2, 2011: Quoted in National Academies Report
- Feb 20, 2011: Stanford Plays Catch-Up on Satellite Campuses
- Feb 15, 2011: Where I've Been: Five Take-Aways on the Humanities at Stanford
- Feb 1, 2011: Intensely Lonely World of Stanford Students
- Jan 30, 2011: What approach to take with senior gift campaigns?
- Jan 22, 2011: The Cause of America's Decline
- Jan 19, 2011: New Article: Fraying at the Edges
- Dec 15, 2010: Thoughts on ROTC, Stanford, and the 'Two Cultures'
- Dec 14, 2010: Reductionism and the Future of Humanities
- Nov 22, 2010: Post on ROTC Added to Fiat Lux
- Nov 11, 2010: Short Post: Why should you do CS?
- Nov 10, 2010: One Week after the Midterm, Three Reflections
- Oct 17, 2010: Preparing for America's Long Decline
- Oct 15, 2010: Shameless Self Promotion: Oman Democracy Works
- Sep 26, 2010: In Response to China, a Doctrine of Quiet Resilience
- Sep 26, 2010: The Road to Stanford Part 2 of 5: The Value of High School Newspapers
- Sep 15, 2010: The Road to Stanford Part 1 of 5: Experiencing Computers
- Aug 27, 2010: Guest Blogger: When Does it Make Sense to Learn a Foreign Language?
- Aug 26, 2010: Debating the merits of a legal education
- Aug 12, 2010: A Tale of Two Speeches
- Aug 12, 2010: Short Post: Student Load Debt Higher than Consumer Debt
- Jul 31, 2010: Please stop it, Professor Hacker! My critique of an Atlantic interview
- Jul 28, 2010: The Dangerous Folly of Regional Technology Centers
- Jul 16, 2010: Updated: Revitalizing the American Dream
- Jul 12, 2010: Why America needs a new Africa strategy
- May 24, 2010: Rebuilding Political Consensus - and America too
- May 18, 2010: Drinking Games, Cups, Menus and Housing
- May 15, 2010: Should No Child Left Behind extend to universities?
- May 5, 2010: Are students consumers of education?
- Apr 28, 2010: Why are such happy students so unhappy?
- Apr 21, 2010: Hopes and Dreams in a Stanford Education
- Apr 14, 2010: The Long Battle to Defend Education
- Mar 31, 2010: Pondering the nature of community
- Mar 4, 2010: Benefits of Grading?
- Feb 24, 2010: Finding Skepticism in Analysis
- Feb 11, 2010: Learning to Think and Learning to Do
- Feb 3, 2010: The Busyness Epidemic
- Jan 18, 2010: American Exit Exams, How Low Can You Go?
- Jan 10, 2010: Living Life in the Rearview Mirror
- Jan 4, 2010: Ten Predictions For the Awkward Teens
- Nov 16, 2009: Why I Left Science
- Nov 9, 2009: Why a Male Community Center is not so outlandish
- Nov 2, 2009: Does Stanford Provide a Public Good?
- Oct 26, 2009: Do Stanford Students have Time to Think?
- Oct 19, 2009: For grad school, run away from the PhD
- Oct 12, 2009: The depressing truth of elite students
- Oct 5, 2009: Liberal pessimism in record time
- Sep 28, 2009: On open access, Stanford's leadership falters
- Sep 21, 2009: The Year of Renewal
- Aug 17, 2009: Disinformation in a digital world
- Aug 5, 2009: Living in a Captain's Height world
- Jul 21, 2009: Palo Alto Pedestrian Zone worth a look
- Jul 6, 2009: Synthesizers will win the battle for academia
- May 19, 2009: Putting the Public in Public Health