Author: Joel Gross

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/20/technology/china-facebook-twitter-influence-manipulation.html

The bottom line is that mergers and acquisitions destroy companies. Removing the founder and reducing the power of key executives destroys the soul of a startup. Almost every company I have seen be acquired by a larger company has died.

Founders, don’t sell your companies. An exit is not the goal. Your business is our baby, what monster would sell his baby?

I was pretty surprised to note today that both Google and Chrome’s default homepage is showing this:

Imagine if the page instead showed this:

Showing preference for one race is the very definition of racism.

Racism cannot be ended with racism. The central hope of Martin Luther King Jr., was that people would someday be judged by “the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.”

https://bikeindex.org/news/closing-the-loop-a-deep-dive-on-a-facebook-reseller-of-bikes-stolen-in

This matches my experiences with Facebook. Even giving them money is nearly impossible; their automatic fraud detection algorithm keeps blocking my clients who run ads. You have to deal with super crappy automated systems from there to try to pay.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/get-money-dermatologist-says-patient-care-suffered-private-equity-back-rcna9152

Owners who sell their businesses can almost always expect to see their business destroyed, and customers trust abused. I am all about free markets, but I hate predatory private equity finance people.

10,000 generations of your ancestors with modern human DNA fought tooth and nail to survive, have kids, and help them succeed.

Billions upon trillions of generations of your ancestors overcame all the odds stacked against them to bring you to life.

The hard work and sacrifices of all of your ancestors brought you into being in the best and easiest time in history to be a living creature.… read more “Kids”

A fundamental problem of school is there is no one anymore who focuses on what the entire goal of education is.

Everyone focuses on small local goals like “computers are good, let’s teach math focused on computers!”

People need to think “we don’t want math robots, we want kids than understand the fundamental principles of math and can apply it to a large variety of creative situations”.

I have a conspiracy theory that the Saudis and the Russians funded the keystone pipeline protests. The keystone Pipeline protests did nothing to reduce CO2 emissions, instead they increase them because heavy bunker oil will now be burned on cargo ships. Bringing the oil from the Saudis to the United States. The Saudis and the Russians funded it to increase the price of gas in the United States and make more money.

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