Gordon's Notes

Peak Human . Accelerated globalization .  Weak mass media. Weaponized Facebook. Crisis T.

For reference - DeLong’s  Peak Human  and my  Mass Disability are synonyms. Both refer to a surplus of productive capacity relative to labo...

I don’t believe exit polls that claim half of white college women voted for Trump — though clearly that must have been true in many parts of...

I don’t think Mac users should switch, but I can’t recommend any newbies join MacShip. Aperture users abandoned. Sierra’s scary data shifti...

Read it … Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency - David Remnick - The New Yorker Nov 28, 2016 issue … I’m half Scotch-Irish, man!” he sai...

I did corporate research and development in clinical software for about 20 years. During that time I couldn’t write about informatics ideas....

I think 40% of Americans are disabled in the context of the modern work environment   because of automation and globalization . That’s why w...

How, a friend asked, did I come up with the 40% number for “mass disability” that I quoted in  After Trump: reflections on mass disability i...

I’m having trouble sleeping. There are a few boring reasons for that, but the election is not helping. So it’s time to write while sleep-imp...

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...

More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers & cables sold on Amazon are fake, says Apple . Finally. Sold “Direct from Amazon” mind you. A...

How do you give someone who has committed themselves to a bad cause a way out? You don’t do it by beating on how stupid they are … From  H...

On a meandering drive home from a northern Wisconsin bike race I passed through the town of Cumberland Wisconsin . It’s in the middle of no...

My daughter attends an urban high school. I think it is minority white (she’s not white). Her school has a mixed reputation. It’s effective...

Why Trump rather than, say, Rubio? To a first approximation, the globalization and technology driven collapse of the white non-college male...