Published Articles (2013 and Prior)
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2013
September
- 2013-09-27: Why elitism still matters in crowdfunding (Homepage)
- 2013-09-24: Blind Spots: The Most Underinvested Areas of Venture (Homepage)
- 2013-09-22: Disappearing Ladders (Homepage)
May
- 2013-05-15: Should you have Institutional VCs in your Seed Round? (Homepage)
- 2013-05-14: Why the Possible Waze Exit is So Important to Israel's Ecosystem (Homepage)
April
- 2013-04-22: Why we need data rights (Homepage)
- 2013-04-20: Hiatus Over (Homepage)
January
- 2013-01-31: Brief Blogging Hiatus (Homepage)
2012
December
- 2012-12-01: The More Negative View of Korea's Growth (Korean) (Homepage)
November
- 2012-11-25: The decline of the BRICs, but the rise of Korea? (Homepage)
- 2012-11-23: Book Forum - The Syrian Rebellion by Fouad Ajami (Homepage)
- 2012-11-22: Update on Korean Studies (Homepage)
- 2012-11-22: Awesome Map of Seoul's Start-up Scene (Homepage)
- 2012-11-12: The More Negative View of Korea's Growth (Homepage)
- 2012-11-11: The decline of the BRICs, but the rise of Korea? (Homepage)
- 2012-11-10: Election Wrap-up - The Supreme Irony of Mitt Romney (Homepage)
- 2012-11-10: Update on Korean Studies (Homepage)
October
- 2012-10-28: Awesome Map of Seoul's Start-up Scene (Homepage)
- 2012-10-24: Government Regulation and Outrage (Homepage)
- 2012-10-15: Book Notes - Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser (Homepage)
- 2012-10-15: The Competitive Pressure of Labor Economics (Homepage)
- 2012-10-04: Japan's Becoming More Entrepreneurial? (Homepage)
- 2012-10-03: Why Consultants Need to Get the Hell Out of College (Homepage)
- 2012-10-03: Japan's Becoming More Entrepreneurial? (Homepage)
- 2012-10-03: AniPang (애니팡) Spreading as Fast as Animals Pop (Homepage)
- 2012-10-03: The Competitive Pressure of Labor Economics (Homepage)
- 2012-10-02: AniPang (애니팡) Spreading as Fast as Animals Pop (Homepage)
September
- 2012-09-16: LTE iPhone for Korea? (Homepage)
- 2012-09-09: LTE iPhone for Korea? (Homepage)
- 2012-09-09: Crowdsourced Funding Assists Eat Your Kimchi Writers (Homepage)
- 2012-09-08: The Three Most Important Words in Silicon Valley (Homepage)
- 2012-09-08: Pedestrian Boulevards, or Why I Love Santa Monica! (Homepage)
- 2012-09-05: Economic Changes in North Korea? (Homepage)
- 2012-09-04: Protectionism - Every Country Does It (Homepage)
August
- 2012-08-31: Are Entrepreneurship and Test Scores Inversely Related? (Homepage)
- 2012-08-27: Coding impact - are we losing software engineers? (Homepage)
- 2012-08-27: Yes, Samsung Errored in its Fast-Follow Strategy (Homepage)
- 2012-08-26: An Increase in Innovation at Samsung? (Homepage)
- 2012-08-26: The Importance of Intellectual Diversity in Academic Disciplines (Homepage)
- 2012-08-26: The top 10 best quotes from Morozov's book review (Homepage)
- 2012-08-22: The Problem with Multiple Realities (Homepage)
July
- 2012-07-30: Site Update - New Mobile Theme (Homepage)
- 2012-07-27: The Economic Calculus of Education (Homepage)
- 2012-07-27: Managing the Bad Tech Narrative - The Case of Google (Homepage)
- 2012-07-09: What Makes Entrepreneurship Attractive? (Homepage)
June
- 2012-06-29: Site Update -- Back in the United States (Homepage)
- 2012-06-29: Finally, Someone Starts Talking About the Developmental State (Homepage)
- 2012-06-18: Why Yammer should have been Google+'s strategy (Homepage)
- 2012-06-13: The Fundamental Dilemma of Start-ups Today (Homepage)
- 2012-06-12: Thoughts on Migrating from Wordpress to Jekyll (Homepage)
May
- 2012-05-31: Innovation Hubs and Engineering Education in Korea (Homepage)
- 2012-05-21: Growing Korea's Innovation Garden (KAIST Lecture 2012) (Homepage)
April
- 2012-04-20: Steve Jobs, South Korea and the Search for Innovation (Fulbright Forum 2012 Lecture) (Homepage)
March
- 2012-03-11: NYT Teardown: The Go-Nowhere Generation (Homepage)
- 2012-03-09: Snobs, Contraception, Denialism and the Presidential Race (Homepage)
- 2012-03-08: Image of the Week: Japanese, Volcanoes, and Tangerines (Jeju Part 3/3) (Homepage)
- 2012-03-07: Why I am afraid to donate to The Stanford Fund (Homepage)
February
- 2012-02-16: Image of the Week: Jeju Island Rocks! (Jeju Part 2/3) (Homepage)
- 2012-02-10: Image of the Week: Lava Caves and Waterfalls (Jeju Part 1/3) (Homepage)
January
- 2012-01-27: Image of the Week: Traditional Family Lunar New Year Celebration (Homepage)
- 2012-01-18: Why Vinod Khosla is Wrong on Gamification of Education (Homepage)
- 2012-01-16: The Danger of Models of Development (or, how culture really matters) (Homepage)
- 2012-01-10: Image of the Week: Korean Hanbok Market and Random Snow (Homepage)
- 2012-01-01: Image of the Week: Suwon and Hwaseong Fortress (Homepage)
2011
December
- 2011-12-10: Android versus iOS: The Power of Culture and Tools (Homepage)
- 2011-12-07: The End of Democracy? [2] (Homepage)
November
- 2011-11-27: Image of the Week: US-Korea Free Trade Protests (Homepage)
- 2011-11-06: Image of the Week: Incredible Photos from the Seoul Lantern Festival (Homepage)
October
- 2011-10-26: What scares me about Mitt Romney (Homepage)
- 2011-10-25: Image of the Week: Stanford's Influence in Korea (Homepage)
- 2011-10-11: Why Stanford students should work on Wall St. (Homepage)
- 2011-10-10: Image of the Week: The Multifunctional Administrative City (Homepage)
- 2011-10-09: Steve Jobs, America and the Future (Homepage)
- 2011-10-06: Image of the Week: Finding the Lost Arc in the Strangest Korean Ghost City (Homepage)
September
- 2011-09-28: The End of Democracy? (Homepage)
- 2011-09-26: Image of the Week: Urban Development and The World Without Us (Homepage)
- 2011-09-19: Image of the Week: Kick It! (Homepage)
- 2011-09-09: Image of the Week: Innovation in Transportation (Homepage)
- 2011-09-03: How to Major in the Humanities (Homepage)
- 2011-09-02: How much sympathy for unemployed graduates? (Homepage)
August
- 2011-08-30: Why America Needs an Industrial Policy (Homepage)
- 2011-08-30: Image of the Week: Modernity in South Korea (Homepage)
- 2011-08-27: How Software is Destroying Society (Homepage)
July
- 2011-07-12: Wow - Defense Budget Must be Getting Really Bad (Homepage)
- 2011-07-12: Some Thoughts for the Week of July 11 (Homepage)
- 2011-07-09: Will America continue to have a public education system? (Homepage)
- 2011-07-03: Will Osama bin Laden win the Global War on Terror? (Homepage)
June
- 2011-06-28: It's about Quality - not Quantity (and damn that's hard) (Homepage)
- 2011-06-17: Will the Internet as we know it exist in 10 years? (Homepage)
- 2011-06-16: Short: Congressional Gym Debacle - Let's Keep It (Homepage)
- 2011-06-09: I'd Vote for Huntsman (But he is never going to make it) (Homepage)
- 2011-06-09: Why wage-data transparency is a bad idea (Homepage)
May
- 2011-05-17: Thesis Done (Homepage)
April
- 2011-04-26: Nature's Special on the PhD: Are we in a bubble? (Homepage)
- 2011-04-16: Decline of Transfer Admissions at Stanford (Homepage)
March
- 2011-03-23: Transfer Admits to Stanford (Homepage)
- 2011-03-02: Quoted in National Academies Report (Homepage)
February
- 2011-02-20: Stanford Plays Catch-Up on Satellite Campuses (Homepage)
- 2011-02-15: Where I've Been: Five Take-Aways on the Humanities at Stanford (Homepage)
- 2011-02-01: Intensely Lonely World of Stanford Students (Homepage)
January
- 2011-01-30: What approach to take with senior gift campaigns? (Homepage)
- 2011-01-22: The Cause of America's Decline (Homepage)
- 2011-01-19: New Article: Fraying at the Edges (Homepage)
2010
December
- 2010-12-15: Thoughts on ROTC, Stanford, and the 'Two Cultures' (Homepage)
- 2010-12-14: Reductionism and the Future of Humanities (Homepage)
November
- 2010-11-22: Post on ROTC Added to Fiat Lux (Homepage)
- 2010-11-11: Short Post: Why should you do CS? (Homepage)
- 2010-11-10: One Week after the Midterm, Three Reflections (Homepage)
October
- 2010-10-17: Preparing for America's Long Decline (Homepage)
- 2010-10-15: Shameless Self Promotion: Oman Democracy Works (Homepage)
September
- 2010-09-26: The Road to Stanford Part 2 of 5: The Value of High School Newspapers (Homepage)
- 2010-09-26: In Response to China, a Doctrine of Quiet Resilience (Homepage)
- 2010-09-15: The Road to Stanford Part 1 of 5: Experiencing Computers (Homepage)
August
- 2010-08-27: Guest Blogger: When Does it Make Sense to Learn a Foreign Language? (Homepage)
- 2010-08-26: Debating the merits of a legal education (Homepage)
- 2010-08-12: Short Post: Student Load Debt Higher than Consumer Debt (Homepage)
- 2010-08-12: A Tale of Two Speeches (Homepage)
July
- 2010-07-31: Please stop it, Professor Hacker! My critique of an Atlantic interview (Homepage)
- 2010-07-28: The Dangerous Folly of Regional Technology Centers (Homepage)
- 2010-07-16: Updated: Revitalizing the American Dream (Homepage)
- 2010-07-12: Why America needs a new Africa strategy (Homepage)
May
- 2010-05-24: Rebuilding Political Consensus - and America too (Homepage)
- 2010-05-18: Drinking Games, Cups, Menus and Housing (Homepage)
- 2010-05-15: Should No Child Left Behind extend to universities? (Homepage)
- 2010-05-05: Are students consumers of education? (Homepage)
April
- 2010-04-28: Why are such happy students so unhappy? (Homepage)
- 2010-04-21: Hopes and Dreams in a Stanford Education (Homepage)
- 2010-04-14: The Long Battle to Defend Education (Homepage)
March
- 2010-03-31: Pondering the nature of community (Homepage)
- 2010-03-04: Benefits of Grading? (Homepage)
February
- 2010-02-24: Finding Skepticism in Analysis (Homepage)
- 2010-02-11: Learning to Think and Learning to Do (Homepage)
- 2010-02-03: The Busyness Epidemic (Homepage)
January
- 2010-01-18: American Exit Exams, How Low Can You Go? (Homepage)
- 2010-01-10: Living Life in the Rearview Mirror (Homepage)
- 2010-01-04: Ten Predictions For the Awkward Teens (Homepage)
2009
November
- 2009-11-16: Why I Left Science (Homepage)
- 2009-11-09: Why a Male Community Center is not so outlandish (Homepage)
- 2009-11-02: Does Stanford Provide a Public Good? (Homepage)
October
- 2009-10-26: Do Stanford Students have Time to Think? (Homepage)
- 2009-10-19: For grad school, run away from the PhD (Homepage)
- 2009-10-12: The depressing truth of elite students (Homepage)
- 2009-10-05: Liberal pessimism in record time (Homepage)
September
- 2009-09-28: On open access, Stanford's leadership falters (Homepage)
- 2009-09-21: The Year of Renewal (Homepage)
August
- 2009-08-17: Disinformation in a digital world (Homepage)
- 2009-08-05: Living in a Captain's Height world (Homepage)
July
- 2009-07-21: Palo Alto Pedestrian Zone worth a look (Homepage)
- 2009-07-06: Synthesizers will win the battle for academia (Homepage)
May
- 2009-05-19: Putting the Public in Public Health (Homepage)