In Defense of the Journalistic Method

It’s easy to disparage journalists until you try to do it yourself and realize the difficulty of composing and conveying a generally cogent, thoughtful yet enticing argument in 1000-1500 words to an audience that has high expectations, that isn’t total crap or mean-spirited and abrasive. When you read a professionally-done article, you may leave disagreeing… Continue reading In Defense of the Journalistic Method

Debunking more STEM sexism

I’m a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you. For example, we could look to the percentage of women majoring in computer science at highly selective colleges and universities. Women currently make up about 30 percent of the computer science majors at Stanford University, one key source of Google’s elite… Continue reading Debunking more STEM sexism

Grey Notes: Forget Computer Science…Why are men underrepresented in psychology?

Why are so women underrepresented in computer science? Why not turn it around and ask, why are men so underrepresented in psychology? Yet there is no outrage by the left over that. Perhaps the left understands, and correctly so, that computer science is a higher status degree and career than physiology, but still, don’t blame… Continue reading Grey Notes: Forget Computer Science…Why are men underrepresented in psychology?

The 99% vs. 1%…who is exploiting whom

From Vox Day: The only way to raise wages Regarding individual socioeconomic achievement, how does one disentangle the role of the individual versus the responsibility/role of society. Are societal factors (culture, economics, government, etc.) chiefly to blame for inequality, or factors intrinsic to the individual (such as IQ, work ethic, personality, etc.). Part of the… Continue reading The 99% vs. 1%…who is exploiting whom

North Korea : What Happens Next

Tensions between North Korea and the US continue to roil the volatility markets, although the overall stock market ended the week only slightly negative. The problem is, unlike past pivotal moments such as Brexit, the 2017 French election, and the 2016 US presidential election, there is no deadline for when North Korea will act. This… Continue reading North Korea : What Happens Next

Not Worried about North Korea

Here is the best summary I could find of the North Korea situation: North Korea Finalizing Test Missile Launches Aimed Toward Guam North Korea said Thursday it is finalizing a plan to launch a salvo of four ballistic missiles off the shores of the U.S. territory of Guam, the newest provocation in the war of… Continue reading Not Worried about North Korea

The Google Memo, Part 2: James Damore and Jordan Peterson discuss the memo

2017/08/08: James Damore and Jordan Peterson discuss the memo At about 9-10 minutes in, Damore says a month ago he published the memo to a ‘skeptics’ Google group, and then it went viral from there. I and probably others assumed that he sent the memo via his Google work email account to his work contacts,… Continue reading The Google Memo, Part 2: James Damore and Jordan Peterson discuss the memo

Will Silicon Valley’s Tech Fortunes Dissolve like the Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Vanderbilt Fortunes? No

Because Silicon Valley is the news, Apple Is Basically a Small Country Now: No modern tech company has approached the value of trading companies of the 1700s, though, and the Dutch East India Company trumps them all. The shipping juggernaut was the world’s first publicly traded company. At its height, according to several estimates, it… Continue reading Will Silicon Valley’s Tech Fortunes Dissolve like the Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Vanderbilt Fortunes? No