Author: Joel Gross

https://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/article266921436.html

I love tea and I love coffee, but I realized I had to cut it out to improve my ability to prioritize.

I did not start drinking caffeine until I was 32 years old. My wife and I went to London and we did a formal afternoon tea in a garden and I was hooked. Over the following six years, I gradually drank more and more caffeine.… read more “Cutting Out Caffeine To Improve My Decision Making”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-06/southern-california-faces-new-water-restrictions-next-year

Why not simply use pricing to ration use? This is by far the best method of distributing any resource of good or service.

Everyone simply should pay the same price per gallon. Businesses that have been abusing the system to get nearly free water will yell and scream, then go find something more productive to do.… read more “Southern California faces new water restrictions next year – Los Angeles Times”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-06/dutch-close-europe-s-biggest-gas-field-despite-energy-crisis

So dumb. Get this Netherlands gas field pumping. Europe should receive no LNG shipments if they are not willing to help themselves. What a disaster. Just as stupid as Germany shutting down it’s nuclear plants.

Myths perpetuated by VCs: -You need a cofounder -You need investors -You need a board
Just build a great product and focus on your customers and it will self fund and you will have zero non essential people.

I received the following scam email to my business, watch out for this sort of thing.

Last night I made a purchase through your store in the amount of $700 and then in just several hours, funds began to withdraw from my banking account.
First 160 bucks were taken, and then 250.
This extended until my bank account became totally empty.… read more “Beware of scam emails”

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nkorea-fires-missile-towards-east-skorea-military-2022-10-03/

If a bully keeps swinging his fist right next to your head, do you let him keep doing it? Or do you smash him in the face yourself before he actually hits you?

I feel like all the “zero tolerance” policies on bullying in schools have backfired… It’s best to learn how to fight back against a bully while the bully is immature.… read more “North Korea conducts longest-range missile test yet over Japan | Reuters”

The EPA justifies it’s enormous ongoing expenses by over regulating American industry out of business.

As a man, I find myself increasingly detesting other men who whine. Our society now wants all men to be able to cry just like women can and everyone should applaud. But we have a billion generations of evolution behind us pushing men who don’t cry in the face of problems, but fight and overcome. Maybe I am just a backwards throwback, but maybe not.… read more “Crying men”

https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/why-men-are-hard-to-help

Why do we still have Title IX in law if it has achieved it’s goal and swung the other way?

My theory for the gender performance gap… Men need productive work to be happy and motivated. Schoolwork, mostly filling in worksheets, is not productive work.