Author: Joel Gross

Best actor of his generation – https://youtu.be/uW56CL0pk0g

The way I think of it now is: you never compete against Google. You compete against a PM at Google, who works 9-5 (sorry!), doesn't care 1/100th as much as you do, and has 70 lawyers on his back and 6 months of meetings every time he wants to do something

— Flo Crivello (@Altimor) April 1, 2020

Flo Crivello on Twitter: “The way I think of it now is: you never compete against Google.… read more “Best Twitter Thread”

A small business is a good business. Most people seem to think supporting small businesses is a good thing, whereas bigger companies tend to become evil. I think this intuition is true.

Mergers and acquisitions make companies larger. What happens in an acquisition? Usually the founder of a company gets bought out and stops working to go live on a beach.… read more “Keep Companies Small”

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/23/business/economy/unemployment-benefits-stimulus-coronavirus.html

This program is an insane disaster that will discourage people from working. People should make close to what they would have made an employment, but if you pay them more, why would anyone go back to work or even stay in the job they have today? This is a very concerning program.

What your parents sacrificed for you should be repaid in kind to your kids, not back to your parents. If you don’t have kids, pay it to society.

Children are brought into existence w/o their consent.

Now I don’t believe this is* (edit: fixed) an evil or unethical act; it’s simply an unavoidable facet of reality. However, it creates a debt to children so massive, that it can’t be fully repaid in a lifetime.

In short, the debt between children & parents only ever runs one way.… read more “Idea from HN I Like”

Regulatory capture is a situation in which the companies or the industry being regulated takeover of their own set of rules and the enforcer of those rules. It is a bad situation because the company is then right rules to make it hard for new competitors to get started in their industry.

A great example of this is aerospace.… read more “How to beat Regulatory Capture?”

If we abolished the patent system, anyone anywhere could compete in the production of any good or service. This would lead to no shortages of anything, the lowest possible prices, and a much better quality of life for everyone.

Griffin likes to climb everything now. Unfortunately he is not very coordinated or balanced, and is always at risk of toppling over. He doesn’t understand how to fall safely yet either so he would bonk his head with each fall. We have to watch him like a hawk now!