The first is that authenticity turns out to be just another form of hyper-competitive status seeking, exacerbating many of the very problems it was designed to solve. Second, and even more worrisome, is that the legitimate fear of the negative effects of technological evolution has given way to a …

So one nice surprise is that I recently found out I’m now among the elite of all Top Amazon Reviewers–at the time I looked I was #964 out of 10,000 Amazon Top Reviewers and out of probably hundreds of thousands of Amazon Reviewers in general.

Note that there are an unknown number of people …

A few months ago I reviewed a new book on R, called Introduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation Using R, Second Edition, by Owen Jones, Robert Maillardet, and Andrew Robinson. I liked the book — R is becoming more popular and widely used as a language and tool to parse and process the …