Gordon's Notes

This is a weird time in software. Lots of things are going away, but few new things are appearing. As best I can tell Windows software died...

A few days ago The Economics published a long fluff piece on the allegedly modern malady of feeling we don’t have enough time — even though...

This is pure anecdote, but it’s not inconsistent with the past decade of research. Once upon a time I used to advise patients to lose weigh...

In the spirit of the season, which science tells us is Scrooge before his psychotic break, a call out to Amazon, Pottermore, and Apple. To ...

I made another stab at sharing images to Facebook Groups. It didn’t go any better than my previous efforts. First I tried using Facebook’s ...

Being new-old means learning to be deliberative about things that were once opportunistic. I used to get my exercise whenever I could — now...

Over the past few decades developed world growth in wealth and income has been captured by a small segment of the population. Globalization...

Henry Alford wrote an entertaining essay on holiday dinner peacemaking tips. I enjoyed the essay, but I also appreciated the inventory of te...

One way to spot  an aging control-freak geek : after 55 we count down to the target zone . [1] One of the things we ponder is how much exer...

Facebook, the everyman feed reader, has an “ attention economy ” problem that’s familiar to anyone who has used industrial feed readers like...

A  Jonathon Duerig comment on App.net  reminded me of an old idea that still hasn't come to pass. It should be possible to define a st...

Nick Heer described AT&T’s customer activity tracking best … AT&T Stops Using Undeletable Phone Tracking IDs — Pixel Envy … Here...

Seven years ago Clayton “Innovators Dilemma” Christensen wrote .. Clayton "innovators dilemma" Christensen: Apple will fail … t...

To widespread surprise, the US and China reached an agreement on carbon emissions: U.S. and China Reach Climate Accord After Months of Tal...

RSS , left for dead years ago, has crawled back   out   of the   wilderness . Today we welcome our latest Prodigal - Jon Udell . There...