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  1. Dec 2016
    1. In Silicon Valley, where I live, the word “disruption” has an overwhelmingly positive valence: Thousands of smart, young people arrive here every year hoping to disrupt established ways of doing business — and become very rich in the process.For almost everyone else, however, disruption is a bad thing.
  2. Nov 2016
    1. and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.

      I think this raises an issue for today about what it means to be an American. What is this need for assimilation to prove your patriotism? And, Does it mean that if you cannot acculturate you are less American?

  3. Sep 2016
  4. May 2016