via danwang.co:
Dan Wang’s 2021 letter
by Dan Wang
published on January 1, 2022
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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People who have worked in both China and Silicon Valley tend to comment on the similarities: the belief in rapid change, the power of engineers, the odes to humanity that mask impatience with actual humans.
~ Evan Osnos via The New Yorker
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Campus Life at
SUNY Buffalo
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Interesting Read
via The Atlantic:
A Deal That Would End Universities’ Independence
by Kevin Carey
published on October 4, 2025
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The United States has a knack of going down in flames and then rejuvenating. China does not.
~ Joerg Wuttke, former head of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China via The New Yorker
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The show, a sort of elegy for Gen X, opens with a flash-forward to July 16, 1999, the final hours of Carolyn Bessette and John F. Kennedy, Jr. On the tarmac, the lovers crouch, pressing their foreheads together, as if knowledgeable about their impending end.
~ Doreen St. Félix via The New Yorker
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Campus Life at
Griffith University
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The institutions that are fostering supposedly egalitarian politics limit upward mobility as much as they facilitate it. This has encouraged a type of blinkered and oftentimes unambitious style of activism among young people, which asks for many changes but does not challenge the system that provides them with their own lofty status.
~ Jay Caspian Kang via The New Yorker
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