Author: Joel Gross

The question of immigration can be simplified to a trade off between freedom and security. It would be wonderful for everyone in the world to have the liberty of choosing where they live and under what type of government. On the other hand, you have situations like the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and around the world by foreigners.… read more “Immigration”

Conference is meh, but its great spending time with my brother Jordan on his birthday!!!

That’s him in the black hat.

Just as I long suspected and wrote about in previous posts, antivirus companies have been creating their own malware.  They have a huge financial incentive to create malware that their software can resolve as this will lead to more sales. I always thought the owners would be smarter though and would pay cash under the table secretly to outside programming teams, not their own regular employees.

I have been listening to Great Courses course on biology each morning when I work out. The recent lectures have been on evolution and genetic engineering…

So last night I had a dream that I was a biologist and engineered a mega wasp that was intelligent as humans and had a sting that killed and was resistant to cold, heat, insecticide and could photosynthesise.… read more “Mega Wasps”

Great discussion on whether or not it is necessary to have a cofounder over on Hacker News today. It inspired me to share my story of why I think having a founder would have sunk my business long ago.

I have self financed and built my business, CoalitionTechnologies.com, to a team of 52 full time employees over the last six years.… read more “A Cofounder Would Have Sunk My Business”

I’ve been working 60-70 hours a week, working out hard every day and in my spare hour in the evenings reading business books. I am tired and my patience feels thin. I need to re-energize myself.