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 ...

This is the last in a short series of post that  began on Nov 11, 2020 , shortly after Biden won the presidency for the first time. Back the...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

This is what I think socioeconomic support will look like in 2040 based on cognitive [2] quintiles. The bottom quintile (0-20%, non-voters)...

I’ve been digging into thunderbolt 2 lately. It’s an orphan technology — sure looks like Apple has given up on it. In retrospect either App...

I’m a liberal of Hume an descent, and I’m a fan of Donald Trump. No, not because Trump is humiliating the GOP, though he is. Of course I en...

Is Stephen Hawking disabled? Obviously this is a rhetorical question. Hawking is 70 and retired from the Lucasian chair, but he remains a ...

Facebook opened at 38 and it's down to 24  (7/28/2012). Facebook has earned less money than expected. I don't know where Facebook&#...

Roger Ebert wrote a column on gun control and received 650 comments. He read them all. Then he responded, with one of his best columns eve...

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

After 1973, and especially after the early 1980s, productivity gains went towards the 1%. Media male compensation in particular went flatlin...

It helps if you think of humans as biological robots with varying programming ... Politics, Odors and Soap - Kristof - NYTimes.com ... “T...

Reading 9th grade world history  as an adult I read over the names of the wicked and the great. I round years to centuries, and nations to r...

In my early years white male heterosexual superiority was pretty much hardwired into my culture. I grew up in Quebec, so in my earliest pre-...

For the past fifteen years I've been fascinated by how the information technologies of the late 20th century supercharged old frauds. I ...