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Slava Ukraini!
What is a nation? It's complicated...
Ramanan Raghavendran
Jan 13
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Slava Ukraini!
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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…
Ramanan Raghavendran
Dec 29, 2022
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Outgrowing "Growth Mindset"
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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…
Ramanan Raghavendran
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…
Ramanan Raghavendran
Oct 28, 2022
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Where Do Emails Go When You're Gone?
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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…
Ramanan Raghavendran
Jul 15, 2022
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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…
Ramanan Raghavendran
Jul 12, 2022
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Universities and Civilization
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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…
Ramanan Raghavendran
Jun 28, 2022
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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…
Ramanan Raghavendran
Jun 20, 2022
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Gilded Cages and Bullshit Jobs
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April 2022
Peer Group Problems
There is a great song that captures some of what I want to talk about here: Ray Charles singing “It should have been me”. Uncle Ray was always a few…
Ramanan Raghavendran
Apr 5, 2022
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Peer Group Problems
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March 2022
World Simulations: Iain M. Banks
Did life in your great Utopia really get so boring you needed a war? — Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas Recently I wrote about how some of the best…
Ramanan Raghavendran
Mar 25, 2022
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February 2022
Remember Who Brung Ya To The Dance
In life — work, home, relationships of all kinds — there are people who “brung ya to the dance.” Sometimes we forget them, and this is a mistake. It is…
Ramanan Raghavendran
Feb 15, 2022
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Remember Who Brung Ya To The Dance
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January 2022
Science Fiction and Fantasy: What’s in a Name?
I’ve always embraced the fact that I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy. Indeed I believe that some of the best writing of the last three decades…
Ramanan Raghavendran
Jan 9, 2022
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