Monday, July 31, 2017

Bring red flags, lots of red flags – Part VI: Campbell's Law et al.

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The familiar concerns with factors that undermine and distort educational metrics appear to have crossed the ocean . I asked two experts ...
Friday, July 28, 2017

The nuclear moose option

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[UPDATE: The conversation continues with The Republicans' 3 x 3 existential threat .] [Just to be clear, I am not claiming that any of...

Health care reform can have consequences

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This is Joseph Steven Attewell When I heard Republican Congressmen talking about how only people who’ve led “good lives” deserved covera...

The Trump-anchor paradox

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The more that congressional Republicans believe that Trump is dragging them down and threatening their majorities in 2020 and perhaps even 2...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

I want to point out a Vox article on self-driving cars

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This is Joseph Mark and I have been discussing this point so I was pleased to see a recent Vox article.  David Roberts makes the increasin...

Shame he didn't think of this before they did all those artist's renderings of elevated hyperloops

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I thought about adding this to the previous Elon Musk post (which actually hasn’t run yet in my timeline {sorry, been watching Dr. Who}), bu...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

"A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is."

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Another excerpt from Charles Mackay's  Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds . I believe "a company for carryin...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

A few points to keep in mind when reading any upcoming story about Elon Musk

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First, a quick update from the good people at Gizmodo, specifically Ryan Felton: Elon Musk awoke on Thursday with the intention of sendin...
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Monday, July 24, 2017

The Disruption Fetish

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This analysis by Brent Goldfarb is the best thing you'll read about Tesla this year, but the most important part may be his dismantling...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Brooks underplayed the only cultural signifiers that matter -- "All you need is juice and a whole lotta money"

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In recent years, I have become something of a compulsive Wikipedia checker. When I see a business story, I look up the industry. When I hear...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

New York Magazine has a problem with pseudoscience*

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Not just New York Magazine , of course. The issues here are almost industry-wide ( Cracked and the Gawker remnants have fairly clean hands...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

One more quibble with Goldfarb – – why Netflix and not Redbox?

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I'm starting to feel really bad about this. Brent Goldfarb recently wrote one of the best and most important analyses of the Tesla busin...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

David Wallace-Wells, autism and bad science

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David Wallace-Wells has been catching a lot of flack (most of it richly deserved) for his recent New York Magazine article on climate chang...
Monday, July 17, 2017

Maybe Brooks' lunch date was just a horrified food critic

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I have to confess that I've tended to be overly dismissive of Besha Rodell.  By replacing the irreplaceable Jonathan Gold,  she immediat...
Friday, July 14, 2017

We could have just run this post weekly for the past six months

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Near the beginning of the year, we ran a post about how the incumbency advantage is based on processes and mechanisms that, at least on the...