Author: Joel Gross

This cheesy ad from Brown University School of Professional Studies makes it sound like they will merge their students into Skynet and make them the corporate villains from pretty much every action movie ever.

New South Park episodes are blow your mind good. Season 22, episodes 8 and 9.

Reducing medical regulations would allow new businesses that cared for your welfare to grow and compete with ancient businesses that are callous to your interests. https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/12/why-do-hospitals-hate-sleep-so-much/

Bitcoin is not used in commerce anywhere really, and has massively overhyped valuations. Most digital coins are a scam, but even this big boy is one too. Watch out.

Energy (oil, nuclear, etc) is what drives the entire world economy. It doesn’t matter what kind of technology you have if you don’t have the energy to push things ahead. Energy multiplied by technology equals Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Energy without technology leads to massive waste.

We need clean energy or we will torch our planet.… read more “Energy and the Economy”

I have been training hard to regain my fitness since my knee injury. Tonight I had one of my best one mile times at 8:23 since the injury. I also have been spending the last couple of weeks trying to do circuit training most days. I have a whole sheet and charts and reports set up to track that circuit training.… read more “Fitness Coming Back”

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blackkklansman/

Great film!

For the first time in 500 days, I had a couple of glasses of wine last night while I was golfing with Ryan and Audrey. I was standing at the bar while they got beers and with only a little encouragement, I decided to get a glass of wine. I think it was all the caffeine I had at breakfast.… read more “Drinking”

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-confessions-of-judgment/

School performance is NOT a great indicator of intellect. The most successful people I know did just enough to get by decently in school and spent the rest of their efforts on activities that made them happy or were more productive. People who drove themselves crazy working as hard as they could in school generally didn’t get anywhere in the real world.