Gordon's Notes

The Economist has an excellent overview of the risks of the attention economy  (11/4/17). The Gamergate connection is particularly good. Th...

I’d read that 53% of white women voted for Trump and 45% of college-educated white women. I’ve quoted those numbers. Today I looked for an u...

Funny personal note. While testing Google Scholar's new features I ended up creating a profile based on my (limited) academic publicati...

In the 90s the world kind of made sense. Since then, not so much. I don’t know if teens truly are experiencing an anxiety epidemic, but any ...

The extraordinary St Paul Bicycle coalition has a couple of useful references on our upcoming mayoral race: Candidate statements Voter G...

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...