Joel Gross's Blog

I was worried I had Covid today as I was pretty sick. I had an extraordinarily difficult time finding any place they did rapid Covid testing in Pierce County. I had a nightmare experience with Walgreens where their phone service told me that I could go in and get tested, but when I showed up the pharmacist refused.… read more “Pierce County Rapid Covid Test”

Imagine an alien species with star drive technology and vastly superior intelligence appeared in large numbers on our planet. The aliens kill humans for sport, skin them, boil them alive, and often don’t even eat the meat. They drag people around on hooks buried in their intestines. They stuff dead human bodies and set them up in action positions like the Heisman pose.… read more “Man is a Nightmare Species”

I don’t own any Bitcoin and don’t have any plans to. Bitcoin is not used anywhere really in legitimate commerce. Governments would have an easy time regulating it if they had to and if it goes against the interest of the government they will shut it down. Government’s historically have done this with other currencies they didn’t like.… read more “Bitcoin”

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If you have to live off your own revenues, it means you don’t do any premature scaling… You have to focus on the needs of your customers to reach the next level. VC backed companies have to reach the VC exit goals which means they are forced to scale immediately even if things are broken.

Your business idea could work really well if you were given a few extra months or years to work on it, but with the VC fuse burning you can’t wait.… read more “Avoid VC’s”

I am halfway through the sixth season of the Alone TV show and have enjoyed watching it with my wife.

I am not much of an outdoorsman yet, but I am hoping to do a lot more hiking and camping with my kids as they grow up.

I have a few strategy ideas for Alone based on what I’ve seen:

The main challenge is calories:

• How many extra pounds of fat do you have when you arrive?

… read more “Alone TV Show Strategy Ideas”

“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.” – Napolean Bonaparte

“I sincerely believe with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; & that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale” – Thomas Jefferson

“I have two great enemies, the southern army in front of me and the financial institutions in the rear.… read more “Quotes on financiers”

Fake news is false information that is shared among people. Fake news includes anything that is published in the face of contrary evidence of that is published claiming evidence that does not exist. Examples are visible everywhere: what your cranky uncle rants about at Thanksgiving, clickbait news articles,  what your gullible friend shares on social media, and what the scammy company claims in their ads.… read more “Solving Fake News”

In my first job out of college I worked at a company called Visible Technologies that is now out of business. The company had a cool product in 2006 they were building for tracking social media sentiment before that was really a thing. The founders need to go to all of their attention to this project.… read more “My First Job Out Of College”