Gordon's Notes

"THIRTY years ago, I was given a diagnosis of schizophrenia." That's a helluva way to start one of the most important NYT O...

My two home towns are Minneapolis and Montreal. They have quite a bit in common , though on this trip I was struck by how much diverse manuf...

The S&P is approaching its 2007 peak, which is basically equivalent to the peak just prior to the .com crash.  As an essentially ...

Imagine you have very limited or no legal employment opportunities. Or perhaps you have some opportunities, but they pay poorly. Dealing dr...

I joined App.net  ($5/month or $36/year) about five months ago . Although it's fundamentally a messaging infrastructure it's curren...

Over the past ten years I've been the manager for a variety of hockey and baseball teams. Along the way I've tried a variety of tech...

The second son asked me: "How did the American South feel about losing the Civil War?". My first thought was that the South was d...

To be plausible, I've read, a novel must avoid reality. What novel, for example, would start the 21st century with al Qaeda's attac...

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

It's not just the Mayan lunacy afflicting China and Russia. It's also the  Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk  and T...

We tax cigarettes to offset some of the social costs of tobacco use. This is type of  Pigovian Tax . We could tax bullets to offset the dir...

Google killed Reader Shares on October 31, 2011 ... Gordon's Notes: Dapocalypse now: Google's day of infamy I shared thousands of...

Since the election we've received a nightly phone call with a Caller ID of MN DFL party and a return number of 651-251-6300. As others h...

KPCB annual internet trends presentation is online . KPCB does this yearly under the "Meeker" brand. The online version isn't ...

Few people will have noticed new rules around corporate "health-contingent wellness programs" (emphases mine): Administration De...