Gordon's Notes

Life has lots of small traps. Sharing this one in case it’s useful. I once worked for a firm that granted me stock options that were held b...

I have bought things for my children that I dreamt of as a child — but were out of my parent's price range. Shockingly, my children hav...

The first thing I did on the web, as a class assignment sometime between 1994 and 1995, was a personal profile . I just reread it. Ouch. I w...

I’ve had a habit around each birthday to review where I’m at with my exercise addiction. This past week was the 58th. I bought myself a Cano...

I’ve read that our national dumpster fire believes exercise is unwise. That’s not a surprise. It does remind me though of an open medical q...

I had no idea this situation had improved — and I follow health care fairly closely …. The Pricing Of U.S. Hospital Services: Chaos Behind...

I’m going to translate the subtexts and signals of  What’s Wrong With the Democrats? - The Atlantic  into plain language: Democrats should...

I finished ‘A Memory of Light’. And the thirteen Wheel of Time volumes before that. I feel like I’ve been released from Compulsion. It’s n...

Involuntary bumped seat leading to assault on a United Airlines passenger ? Blame the Department of Transportation  (emphases mine): If y...

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...

Very few people will understand what that subject line means. The short version is that the way we account for physician services was born ...

Around 2:30pm Amex.app tells me a $1.00 authorization charge has been placed for Priceline. Which I didn’t do.  I’m in a meeting so I figur...

These are the last days of app.net. It ends in 3 days. App.net has been good to me . Great tools, smart and interesting people, RSS integrat...

Once upon a time tens of thousands of New Yorkers moved paper from one file cabinet to another. Once upon a time there were jobs for strong ...

I’ve been using “crisis-T” as a tag for our times. I used to think it was a bit melodramatic; that maybe T would somehow veer to the fantas...