PinnedSteven StraussinOneZeroAmazon Should Monitor Its New CEO Like It Monitors Drivers and Fulfillment Center WorkersNew research suggests that senior executive performance would benefit from the same sort of monitoring increasingly applied to blue-collar…Jul 27, 20213Jul 27, 20213
Steven StraussEmbracing Generative AI (GAI) in Education: Some Personal ReflectionsWe are currently interacting with what are likely the most basic GAI programs we will see in our lifetime. The inevitable advancement of…Jan 21Jan 21
Steven StraussReplacing Twitter with a News Industry Co-operativeThe continuation of Twitter as a home for journalists is increasingly problematic. And, coordinating journalists moving to another social…Jan 20, 2023Jan 20, 2023
Steven StraussWhy I’m encouraging my students to use Generative AI (e.g.,Because I can’t stop it from happening, and they need to learn how to use these new tools.Jan 10, 20232Jan 10, 20232
Steven StraussWhat Republicans like J.D. Vance know: Selling out to Trump pays off. Principles don’t.These are Tudor-era lessons. Richard Rich sold out for wealth and status, Thomas More was principled and beheaded, and dissing Trump gets…Aug 24, 20211Aug 24, 20211
Steven StraussFour Areas Where the Incoming Biden administration, Allied with Serious Conservatives, can fight…With Senate control on the line in two Georgia runoff elections next month, Republicans are claiming that President-elect Joe Biden and…Dec 21, 2020Dec 21, 2020
Steven StraussOur economy is in the COVID Valley of Death Recession. What will be on the other side?As America’s second quarter GDP takes a record plunge, here are clues to the economy that awaits us on the other side of this COVID-19…Aug 2, 2020Aug 2, 2020
Steven StraussEconomics for a post-lockdown world: Invest now to prevent another Great DepressionPresident Donald Trump wants to restart the economy by ending the lockdowns and getting people back to work. However, based on U.S…May 28, 2020May 28, 2020
Steven StraussWhy Trump’s plan to raise gasoline prices will not help the coronavirus-damaged economyPresident Donald Trump was celebrating his recent deal (with Saudi Arabia, Russia and other oil-producing nations) to prop up oil prices —…Apr 24, 20202Apr 24, 20202
Steven StraussInsist on Coronavirus Help for the People, Not For CEOsThe party of limited government and fiscal prudence is suddenly in favor of a big bailout and stimulus package for the economy — now…Mar 27, 2020Mar 27, 2020