journalism & media

The Future of Journalism: De Scriptorum – Your Personal News Summary

In business, journalism & media on 8 November 2009 with View Comments

Prologue: This is the idea I applied to Y Combinator’s 2010 winter funding cycle with. It got rejected, rightly. As I am currently finishing my Ph.D. in law and have a law/econ background, I am still just adapting to the entrepreneurial mindset. But going out on my own is something I strive to do in [...]

Judging ideas, not people

In journalism & media, philosophy on 27 September 2009 with View Comments

There seems to be a consistent problem with portraying Ayn Rand and virtually all prominent thinkers in the political and philosophical sphere. Their ideas increasingly get judged by who adopts them and what those adopters do with it instead of judging the idea purely at face value and independently of its adoption.
I think it’s just [...]