Gordon's Notes

Representational drift , if validated, tells us that a memory is a set of relationships, not the specific neurons that embody those relation...

I'm a physician. Ok, so it's a very part-time practice; I'm mostly a bureaucrat trying to keep civilization together. Still I h...

My trail bike is a 2010 Cannondale Scalpel I bought used. It was a state-of-the-art racing machine in the 26" era and it's light an...

I wrote the original of this post in the early COVID era. Since then I expanded the basement home gym with a way over-specced power lifting ...

Somewhere in my twitter stream mention was made of the "virtual camera" and its advantages for videoconferencing especially as a r...

I'm a fairly average sleeper for my age, but this morning I gave up a bit before 4am. With the unexpected time I finished Yuval Harari&#...

I usually share my blog posts to Pinboard, and from there some creaky old services create tweets and an archive on kateva.org/sh. Not this p...

This is the last in a short series of post that  began on Nov 11, 2020 , shortly after Biden won the presidency for the first time. Back the...

I'm on the way to writing about what I think should be Biden's #2 priority (#1 is undoing Trump's executive orders). Three previ...

Every three years I have to do a quality improvement project to maintain my family medicine board status.  This year I decided to focus on m...

In the Fall of 2020 the American people decided to dump Trump. Americans didn't agree on much else; voters rejected significant change. ...

What would make someone "middle class" in 2020? I like to think of this in terms of what a "middle class" 30 yo adult sh...

A few days ago I listed about 25 reasons that Donald Trump should not be President . Any one of them is sufficient by itself. There are lots...

It's Nov 6, 2020 and I believe Trump's presidency is ending. I look forward to forgetting him, but one day I'll be asked what al...

The combination of RSS and the basic blog post is almost perfect. There are, however, a few things that would make them even better as a way...