2023 letter | Dan Wang
(This piece is my year in review; here’s my letter from 2022 ) I. Walking The trunk of an elephant might feel cool to the touch. Not what one expects, perhaps,…
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2022 letter | Dan Wang
(This piece is my year in review, this year a bit late; here’s my letter from 2021 ) Mountains offer the best hiding places from the state. There were a lot of…
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2021 letter | Dan Wang
(This piece is my year in review; here’s my letter from 2020 ) I’ve by now lived in each of China’s main megaregions. It is time to make assessments. Everything…
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2020 letter | Dan Wang
(This piece is my year in review; here’s my letter from 2019 ) I. Inspiration It’s difficult to identify a great economic reason to explore space. There are…
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2019 Letter | Dan Wang
( This is my personal annual review post; here’s the piece I wrote for 2018 ) Following the twists and turns of the trade war meant that I had less time for…
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What I learned in 2018
Exuberant cultural elan; the optimisms of Kennedy and Krushchev; Exact Thinking in Demented Times; the golf of tech; Lady Macbeth; Hangzhou and Chongqing.
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College as an incubator of Girardian terror | Dan Wang
Why college is a Girardian nightmare; *Big Little Lies* on HBO; Proust; memes; why America's greatest feature is both tolerance and rejection of mimesis.
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Why do so few people major in computer science? | Dan Wang
The number of people who majored in computer science in the US isn't much higher in 2015 than in 2005. Why do so few students major in computer science?
