by David Brooks | Apr 14, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
From a personal-stress point of view, COVID-19 lockdowns are kind of like going to Mars, although the view isn’t quite as interesting. We don’t have cosmic radiation or microgravity to concern us while living in small spaces for weeks at a time, but we do have plenty...
by David Brooks | Apr 13, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Data-crunching by Jess Carson, a research assistant professor with the Vulnerable Families Research Program at the Carsey School of Public Policy., finds a correlation between lots of vacation homes and relatively high rates of COVID-19. Notice I said correlation, not...
by David Brooks | Apr 13, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I’m not a big fan of peak-bagging lists – climbing various places according to some arbitrary measure (prominence above 4,000 feet, every month of the year, etc.) but there’s no doubt that they are a spur for people to hit the hills. Too much of a...
by David Brooks | Apr 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
For four years the Concord Monitor has published New Hampshire patents in its print pages as collected by Targeted News Service. However, the COVID constriction in advertising revenue has shrunk the paper and it doesn’t have the room any more. So from now on,...
by David Brooks | Apr 9, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Local advertising revenue, such as it was, has completely disappeared overnight due to COVID-19 and local newspapers are falling by the wayside as a result. The family-owned Concord Monitor, financial and spiritual home of Granite Geek, is not folding but our business...
by David Brooks | Apr 9, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
(UPDATE: IBM wants to train more COBOL programmers.) Regular readers will remember my 2018 story about the state upgrading its tax system because they were still running COBOL. After it ran I heard from COBOL programmers as far away as Brazil who offered their...
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