Gordon's Notes

Just one recent example:  Aggressive Social Engineering Against Consumers As we boomers age, there will be a rich supply of weakened herd m...

We can't forecast a tornado, and we can't predict how a tornado will behave. We can, however, characterize tornadogenic climates and...

In a democracy, the primary talent of the ruler is winning elections. This explains why, although winning politicians are more clever than t...

Reconciliation for May 2011 ... Elderly Drivers Fail a Test (NYT) and Some Older Workers, Pressured to Quit, Fight Back (NYT): Why raising...

Tom West died recently . He was made briefly famous by a Tracy Kidder book, The Soul of a New Machine . Reading his story, I remembered tha...

“No story ends happily. The happy ending is only about knowing where to end on a smile, at the very moment where fortune is still on the asc...

Google Reader is not well. In particular I'm seeing broken bits in the "Following" infrastructure. People Search is hanging ...

I'm sorry. It's union rules. I have to say something. First, because I'm a certified killjoy, I'd like to see someone advis...

My daughter brought my first iPod to me - the 2002 Touch wheel iPod. It wasn't responding to her touch. It sits in a cradle, the batte...

I'm back from a two day corporate class on VitalSmarts Crucial Conversations (see also: Amazon reviews of the book ). I'm going to ...

It occurred to me that a custom Google news section would help me track the worldwide retail organ business. The results were more impress...

I've bought four Yakima Steelhead bike mounts over the past decade; all through REI. All four have broken plastic locking tabs. It...

Hardly anyone noticed , but yet another Google cloud service failed this week . There was understandably more attention to Amazon's rece...

We have been doubly shamed over the past ten years. Once by our embrace of torture, a second time by our inability to prosecute. We can...

As a colleague and I corresponded about my support for  the scientific consensus on CO2 driven climate change , I realized I was replaying  ...