Gordon's Notes

These days my social media experience is largely Mastodon. There's something to be said about a social network that's so irreparably...

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

Viktor Frankl formed some of his opinions of human nature by surviving several concentration camps. After his release, in a few days, he wr...

The Economist has an excellent overview of the risks of the attention economy  (11/4/17). The Gamergate connection is particularly good. Th...

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...

Set aside the neo-Klan-Nazi minority. Set aside the truly despicable  - Coulter, Hannity, Falwell and the like. Forget the hell-spawn who th...

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band was the apex of my popular music connection. In a weird adventure of late childhood I attended  Wint...

Remember Alvin Toffler ’s Future Shock (helps to be old)? Wikipedia, via this : "Toffler argues that society is undergoing an enorm...

I new Russia was stressed, but I didn’t know it was this bad … G.M. Exiting Russia, for the Most Part - NYTimes.com … Because of the coll...

I first published a Google Quick, Sick and Dead list in January 2009 , at the dawn of Dapocalypse . This was six months after the Battle of ...

American unemployment, as economist’s measure it, is back to our post-2000 “norm”. On the other hand economic growth is low; our last quarte...

When I was a child, I read Alvin Toffler's 1970 book Future Shock ... ... Toffler argued that society is undergoing an enormous struc...

For an old school technology geek, reared on local file stores and data cables and file formats and backups and (ugh) synchronization , the...

After 40 years of biking with cars , and almost as long driving with them, I cannot avoid the obvious. Humans cannot drive cars safely arou...

Stocks are overpriced again . It's probably not too much of a bubble (yet), but we continue to be significantly above "trend"...

Five years ago I tried to figure out why we couldn't share work across our corporate units . This turned out to be one of those rabbit ...

It is always this way, on the micro and the macro. I didn't understand high school until college. I didn't understand medical school...

One day I looked up and saw an empty space where some pay phones were. I knew then I had to get a mobile phone. More recently, I knew the po...

Krugman is famously dismissive about claims of structural aspects to underemployment (though years ago he wasn't as sure). DeLong, I thi...

Eight years after my last effort to digitize our home analog video, I discover digital home video is still a mess . I also learn that Final ...