Posts from Medium

I have written a number of election related posts recently on the site Medium.

Home-brewed hot takes is a short piece with advice about how to cook up your own political hot takes at home. Often, you can do a better job than the pundits by thinking carefully about the algorithm of the election. This handy website (270towin) will let you check your projections. If someone is selling a story about New Hampshire tipping the election, you can check the rest of their map assumptions.

Here is some map-work on Romney’s attempt to derail trump. It was a pretty clear case of too-little, too-late.

I have written a number of other stories using my Medium account about other topics, particularly the economics of social networks. If you are interested in such things, check it out.