ginsudo

I am not a close relative of Yoon Suk Yeol, the thirteenth president of the Republic of Korea.

Gentle Reader: this is one of those pieces where ya write the title first, and then ya see what comes out the fountain pen.

Scotch Plains, New Jersey, was the perfect American town.

“Valar Morghulis” means “All Men Must Die” in High Valerian.

There’s a difference between having a plan and changing it, and never having one at all. 6th Uncle I was twenty-one years old when my uncle said that to me in Minnesota, and I’m still thinking about it now, more than three decades later.

I enjoy mentoring as a stress-relieving hobby.

B42 “Don’t Be Evil.”

“Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the world.”

When I turned 40 years old, I wrote a short series of four posts to try to sum up the four most important lessons I’d learned to that point.

I somehow just stumbled across a years-old interview with the actor John Cho, who, like me, is of Korean ethnic background.

“Silence is compliance” is a phrase that many people toss off without thinking through how it works.

In the future, the police as we know it today will not exist.

The first scientific mnemonic I can remember is King Philip Came Over For Good Spaghetti: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.

In 1959, C.P.

Many people have remarked that this month is the longest in memory, so much so that as you lie awake in bed at night, you can hardly believe that this morning was the same day.

or, an Outline of Everything I’ve Read on Twitter in 2020 so far The most basic criticism of capitalism is that it is inexorably tied to growth.

I was wrong about why Warren would win the Presidency, bringing a merciful end to my brief non-career as a political prognosticator.

I named this blog “ginsudo” in 2007, saying that it means “the way of ginsu.”

When I first started getting glum about the future, I thought that maybe I was just getting old and grumpy.

Although being a visionary seems fruitful, you never want to be too far ahead of the times.

What does it mean for one candidate to be more “electable” than another?

Join me, friends, in the Wayback Machine … In 2007, Facebook sent a couple of strategists to Linden Lab to ask us about virtual currency.

I’m absurdly proud of having predicted Trump as President, more than two months before the Republican convention, and six months before the general election.

This week’s first-ever picture of a black hole was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, which is named after the critical boundary around the black hole.

p. 96: I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day.