Acrademics: On Cartesian culture

Acrademics: On Cartesian culture

In his column “Acrademics,” Alexandre Acra ’26 sheds light on the ins and outs of Stanford and Silicon Valley culture. Dear Acrademics, The world around us seems to be losing rigor and specificity by the day — after all, with our lives run by probabilistic models, how can we be expected to reason deterministically or precisely?  I urge you, readers, to lean into the vibes instead: with this column, I hope to handwave every week about the general…