Gordon's Notes

I last wrote about "mass disability" and the Left Behind in a 2021 post . The concept has sometimes seemed on the edge of going ma...

The 70s were pretty weird, but I was too young to notice. (Not coincidentally, the Toffler/Farrell Future Shock book was written then.) By ...

There’s been at least a 200-300% increase in care complexity between when I started medical practice and today. Many new classes of medicati...

One of the odder experiences of aging is living through technology regressions. I’ve seen a few — solutions that go away and are never repla...

My #1 son is a special needs adult. He’s excited to start at $10/hour job running food around a sports stadium. It’s work he can do — he’s g...

We know the shape of the socioeconomic future for the bottom 40%  in the post globalization post AI   mass disability world . But how do ...

The health insurance industry is consolidating. Aetna acquired Humana and Anthem bought Cigna . That leaves UnitedHealth, Aetna and Anthem ...

If you’ve ever wondered why healthcare institutions can’t easily share data between computer systems, just take a look at Calendaring in iOS...

Happy accident frauds are emergent frauds — nobody needs to plan them. Don’t put your Disability Claims office on the fifth floor of a bui...

It wasn’t the MacBook Air’s SSD problem confounded by encryption usability problems and the “Update Needed” ghost user. [2] It wasn’t the c...

Brad DeLong , as best I can tell, does not lead the Washington Center for Equitable growth . Along with Nick Bunker he does, however, prod...

Facebook Reasserts Posts Can Be Used to Advertise . So if I click "Like" on a new offering by Encyclopedia Britannica, my Facebook...

I've hit the Wall. It's partly entropy-related wetware failure, but I'd be in trouble even if I were immortal. I have two man...

In healthcare, only the uninsured pay list price. They actually pay the crazy amounts that show up on their healthcare bills. Other payers, ...

We've come a long way baby. A year ago Nordstrom's began offering optional email receipts as "a convenient, environmentally f...

Marco Arment, builder of a respected OS X app, writes Three Things That Should Trouble Apple – Marco.org :  ... Apple’s software quality...

In 3 days I've tackled three monster Apple bugs . One is with Apple ID infrastructure, one with Image Capture in Snow Leopard, and a...

I don't think we'll actually get to DRM  RetinaLock (retinal enhancements enforce video DRM), but we are pretty much at the "P...

Last year I bought MLB.com's At Bat for something like $10 or $15. Then it was an "App". That meant, based on Apple's Fair...

I read Charlie Stross's Rule 34 . Here's my 5 star Amazon review (slightly modified as I thought of a few more things): Rule 34 is...