Daniel Kronovet
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Against Music
Listening to music on a music player is like taking hits of a drug. You seek out some feeling, delivered on-demand from the little device hooked up to your ears. How is this different from any other drug? Our music players… Continue reading
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Shifting Perceptions, Shifting Personality
It’s interesting, noticing the ways our environments shape us. I’ve begun working at an office, a pretty classy kind of place. Smart people, sharp dressers, hard workers. When I got there, I went on a full-scale charm offensive — trying… Continue reading
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Powerless
Someone stole my laptop charger yesterday. In an unusual twist of dramatic ambience, I was literally powerless. What an apt metaphor for my first three weeks in New York. I’ve been making it mostly on luck, some savings, the goodwill… Continue reading
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“The Slide”
“It was a slide. The biggest slide I had ever known. It towered above the ground, above my three-, five-, six-year-old self like a mountain. The slide was wide — my sisters and I could all slide at once. There… Continue reading
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The Year Abroad Book Review
For those of you just tuning in, I recently wrapped up a year-long trip around the world. It was a very intellectually adventurous period: being outside the boundaries of the university for the first time, and free to follow my… Continue reading
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This Week in Links: On Hiaitus
Hey everyone, After a bit of reflection I’ve decided to put the “This Week in Links” feature on pause for a while. It was starting to appear that a weekly feature of this sort would quickly crowd out all the… Continue reading
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Unpacking an Adage
People always say you learn more from your failures than your successes. But they never say why, which I always found vaguely disappointing. It just supposed to “feel” truthful, right, for some reason we can’t quite pin down. But here’s… Continue reading
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This Week in Links: September 15th – 21st
And, here we are. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-budget/ A beautiful interactive Washington Post feature explaining the USA’s secretive “Black Budget” for military intelligence programs. Part of the Snowden revelations, this information is worth skimming over. http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/economist-explains-itself-3 A blog post on “The Economist” explaining… Continue reading
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