Gordon's Notes

It's hard to imagine how very simple much of our technology environment was in the 1980s. Much of what we interacted with was still unde...

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

I'm on the way to writing about what I think should be Biden's #2 priority (#1 is undoing Trump's executive orders). Three previ...

I haven’t written recently about why Crisis 2016, sometimes called Crisis-T , happened. For that matter, why Brexit. My last takes were in 2...

I believe this is true — though I’d be more confident if one of my favorite economists thought this was plausible (emphases mine): If The ...

In the 90s the world kind of made sense. Since then, not so much. I don’t know if teens truly are experiencing an anxiety epidemic, but any ...

Once upon a time tens of thousands of New Yorkers moved paper from one file cabinet to another. Once upon a time there were jobs for strong ...

I’ve been using “crisis-T” as a tag for our times. I used to think it was a bit melodramatic; that maybe T would somehow veer to the fantas...

The absolute minimal response to Crisis-T starts with financial support for quality journalism and donation to the ACLU . If you have a reas...

It’s a human thing. Something insane happens and we try to figure out “why now?”. We did a lot of that in the fall of 2001. Today I looked b...

In the real world HRC is President and the GOP is beginning a painful reform process that will lead to a far better conservative party and a...

The NYT has a readable summary of Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman’s US income research . Much of it is familiar, but I was ...

I hope to write about my response to “crisis-T". Yes, that T. The anti-O.  This is a prelude to that post. It’s a note about Orchid Is...

Peak Human . Accelerated globalization .  Weak mass media. Weaponized Facebook. Crisis T.

For reference - DeLong’s  Peak Human  and my  Mass Disability are synonyms. Both refer to a surplus of productive capacity relative to labo...

I don’t believe exit polls that claim half of white college women voted for Trump — though clearly that must have been true in many parts of...

I think 40% of Americans are disabled in the context of the modern work environment   because of automation and globalization . That’s why w...

I’m having trouble sleeping. There are a few boring reasons for that, but the election is not helping. So it’s time to write while sleep-imp...

Fourteen  months ago I wrote that Trump was a sign of a healthy democracy . That one might rank up with my Peak Oil prediction . I’m really...

How do you give someone who has committed themselves to a bad cause a way out? You don’t do it by beating on how stupid they are … From  H...