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…·5 min read·Jul 27, 2021--3--3
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…5 min read·Jan 21, 2024----
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…4 min read·Jan 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.4 min read·Jan 10, 2023--2--2
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…·4 min read·Aug 24, 2021----
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…·4 min read·Dec 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…·5 min read·Aug 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…·5 min read·May 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 —…·4 min read·Apr 24, 2020--2--2
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…·4 min read·Mar 27, 2020----