Paper and Ink https://pov.bordey.com/ POV essays by Gary Bordey. en-us When good becomes cheap. https://pov.bordey.com/when-good-becomes-cheap.html https://pov.bordey.com/when-good-becomes-cheap.html Sun, 01 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Jim Collins showed how disciplined companies pulled away from merely good ones. AI now sells much of that competence by subscription. What separates the great is knowing where to point it. A fracture, or just a jolt? https://pov.bordey.com/jolt-or-fracture.html https://pov.bordey.com/jolt-or-fracture.html Sat, 31 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000 A record $6.3 billion theft at Binance knocked bitcoin down about 4 percent in a day. Two centuries of thinking about financial panics suggest the right question is not what happened but what kind of thing happened. The same cart, a bigger bill. https://pov.bordey.com/the-same-cart.html https://pov.bordey.com/the-same-cart.html Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000 In September, Americans spent half a percent more and bought almost nothing extra. Why prices keep rising when households are not buying more, and why the Fed's main tool is a poor fit for the problem. Who reads the label now? https://pov.bordey.com/who-reads-the-label.html https://pov.bordey.com/who-reads-the-label.html Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000 HTI-5 removed the federal requirement that certified EHRs explain their AI. The duty to understand those tools did not disappear. It moved to the buyer, and the buyer should write it into the contract. The star schema keeps outliving its obituaries. https://pov.bordey.com/the-stubborn-star.html https://pov.bordey.com/the-stubborn-star.html Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Data technologies rise and fall every few years. Dimensional modeling has survived them all for three decades, because it was never built around the technology. It was built around the way people ask questions. Say it once, or say it everywhere. https://pov.bordey.com/say-it-once.html https://pov.bordey.com/say-it-once.html Sun, 11 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Normalized and denormalized databases are not rival philosophies. They answer two different jobs, recording the world and asking questions about it, and most arguments about them come from confusing the two. Technology is not a toaster. https://pov.bordey.com/not-a-toaster.html https://pov.bordey.com/not-a-toaster.html Sun, 04 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000 The costliest mistake in technology investment starts with a metaphor. Here is why that metaphor is so persuasive, why it fails, and what to use instead.