Janne M. Korhonen

Janne M. Korhonen

Researcher, among other things

Essays, blog posts, & other longer reads

Longer reads, such as essays, blog posts, articles, etc. Newest first.
For short notes, see Notes; for everything in reverse chronological order, see EVERYTHING.

2025

2022

What is Good in Life? On feedback loops possibly leading to a collapse

4 minute read

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In early 2002, I had an epiphany. I had been depressed for months and queried whether there is even any point in living any more: in the long run, we are all dead, and whatever we achieve will crumble in the sands of time. In a century, barely anyone will even know that you ever existed. Read more

On the Kremlin’s Imperialism

11 minute read

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Greetings from a Finnish leftist! The international situation has apparently left many people in the English-speaking countries confused. I originally wrote this thread in Twitter in the hopes of sharing a perspective I believe is widely although certainly not universally shared in Finland, most leftists included. This is a slightly edited version, for clarity. Read more

2020

2019

Book review: McAfee (2019), More from Less

3 minute read

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This is an interesting book which could be a good book if its key message – that technology and capitalism will decouple economic growth from resource use in time to prevent serious ecological disruption – were supported by research. This, unfortunately, is not the case. Read more

2017

Finland is the land of personal freedom, and that’s why I love it

13 minute read

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On December 6th 2017, Finland celebrates her centennial as an independent nation. Exactly one hundred years ago, the Finnish Parliament finally voted for the motion to sever all ties to the revolutionary Russian government and assume the highest legislative power in the country. (As an aside, the motion for independence had been introduced on November 30th, but the speaker of the parliament did not want to extend the last parliamentary session before parliamentary break for 30 minutes the vote would’ve taken, instead letting the MPs go to their homes on schedule.) Read more

2013

Space system “Shuttle,” part of USA’s nuclear attack arsenal?

7 minute read

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The story of a white elephant colloquially known as the Space Shuttle is familiar to most students of the history of technology. The shuttle was originally touted as a cheap way to access space: being mostly reusable, it would have done for space travel the same what DC-3 did for air travel, i.e. open up the space for large-scale exploration and exploitation.  Read more

2010

The Ten Commandments for publishing in A-list journals, by Janne Tienari

2 minute read

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How to get your publications to the A-list journals? Here’s the Ten Commandments to follow. Today’s Aalto School of Economics Organizations & Management research seminar had something that’s well worth blogging about: professor Janne Tienari and Nina Granqvist presented some extremely good pointers about what to do and what not to do if you want to aim for those impact factors. (Whether you should do is another, interesting discussion in itself.) Read more