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The Rich Must Change
The rich need to make more dramatic behavioral changes to save the planet.
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Jun 8
May 2023
Giving Up and Other Blasphemies
Declaring failure is sometimes the right thing to do
May 27
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April 2023
We Have Some Trust Issues
No, a portable polygraph machine is not the answer.
Apr 23
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Ramanan Raghavendran
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Join me (Ramanan) on Notes
A new place to connect
Apr 12
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Ramanan Raghavendran
January 2023
Slava Ukraini!
What is a nation? It's complicated...
Jan 13
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Ramanan Raghavendran
December 2022
Outgrowing "Growth Mindset"
Note: I struggled to title this essay, and a shoutout to my friend Alex Brussell for giving me the answer (but see my endnote for an alt title). I have…
Dec 29, 2022
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My Ten Best Books of 2022
Here's the best of what I read in 2022. New feature klaxon: I’m picking a Book of the Year! It is Mazower’s Dark Continent. Mazower’s devastating review…
Dec 24, 2022
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October 2022
Where Do Emails Go When You're Gone?
My learning journey at Stanford continued over the summer with an intense course on “the archive”, a highly fetishized subject in the humanities. The…
Oct 28, 2022
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Ramanan Raghavendran
July 2022
Deep Cover: Cricket and Indian Identity
I’ve realized over time that this blog, while implicitly autobiographical, has a small set of essays that are explicitly so. I’ve decided to make this a…
Jul 15, 2022
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Ramanan Raghavendran
Universities and Civilization
Last week I put out an announcement about a new role I am taking on at my alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. I thought I’d write a few more…
Jul 12, 2022
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Ramanan Raghavendran
June 2022
Year Two: Poems!
I’ve been using my blog to chronicle, in an episodic way, a learning journey I have been on at Stanford. The adventure continues! *** The second year of…
Jun 28, 2022
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Ramanan Raghavendran
Gilded Cages and Bullshit Jobs
Some years ago, a picaresque academic named David Graeber wrote an extremely depressing book called “Bullshit Jobs”. His primary target was a range of…
Jun 20, 2022
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Ramanan Raghavendran
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