• The concacaf (north/central american and caribbean) men's soccer tournament (gold cup) is going on right now as well. USA beat Trinidad and Tobago today.
• Light speed is almost 700 million miles per hour. The Earth is almost 100 million miles from the Sun.
• Ground cacao nibs are so much better in my morning shakes than whole.
• Checked the ninja out. Battery is dead. Put it up on the rear lift so the tires would survive longer.
• A mcguffin is a plot device (in a movie or show) that exists solely to move the plot forward but doesn't get any explanation.
• Some new couples are combining last names in marriage!

• Went to ear appointment with Allie. Was very interesting.
• Did surgery on a couple keys on my laptop. The S key was sticking, so I removed and cleaned underneath it. I also checked the A key next to it, to make sure I had put S back correctly, but it didn't come off as well. The retaining clip system is ridiculous, there are like 3 layers with 4 corner attach points each. It's back in place and working ok, but definitely not perfect. You have to press the A extra hard to register (which is annoying since it's a pinky key).
• HN
• Facebook unveiled Libra, their cryptocurrency.
• Slack (the chat app) IPOed yesterday, opening at 38.50, closing at 38.62, and peaking at 42.
• Remember, webpack helps bundle all your js deps (like those specified in <script> tags to other files/urls, or require and import inside a js script) into one. It even builds a nice depgraph for you.
• https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-modern-applications-with-webpack-c81ccf6dd54f/.
• https://hackernoon.com/lets-build-a-boilerplate-with-react-and-webpack-eb2fbdb44283.

• Pineapple has the enzyme bromelain which breaks down protein chains. If you marinate meat with any pineapple in it for too long (hours), it will tenderize it into mush.
• Updated al pastor:
• Trim pork butt into slices. Brine as usual.
• Mix marinade separately and apply right before smoking. Don't want pineapple bromelain.
• Put slices on grill like chicken thighs, not skewered. More surface area for bark/smoke.
• Get the internal to 170-200 and you're fine. Chop up. Don't need to reverse sear.
• NBA contracts are insane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_salary_cap. It's just as ridiculous as tax law, where there was a decent set of 10 original rules and then 3,000 people came in and exploited loopholes which resulted in new provisions. The worst way to scale.
• Some questions for the interviewer. https://medium.com/free-code-camp/how-to-interview-your-interviewers-when-youre-looking-for-a-job-d848bc3a910.
• Describe your CI/CD/CodeReview process.
• How free are individual contributors to pursue new ideas? Even across departments?
• I turn 1 billion seconds old in two months! The night of Wednesday, August 22, at midnight.
• Domains are case insensitive, but you can totally make an endpoint case-sensitive. It just gets sent to the server. You shouldn't. Users should always consider it to be case sensitive, to be safe, but it shouldn't be.
• Watched the smarter every day videos on tattoos and removal.
• The guns are rotary (just a motor and a needle(s), like a crankshaft and piston) or coil (magnetically pulling a needle, then letting go while a sprint pulls it back).
• Laser removal just sends a very tuned flash at the tattoo. This heats up one side of the microscopic ink particles quickly enough that the other side can't deform, so it cracks. Once broken up, white blood cells can engulf the smaller ink particles and bring them to the liver for waste processing (this is the same reason tattoos fade over a long time, the white blood cells are eating away at them).
• Smoked the tacos al pastor.
• At first I thought the temp probe was bad because it just kept flashing "lid off" but it settled after a while. The forums say that sometimes you can get bad readings at low temps. Also, power cycling the unit seems to help.
• I'll have to screw the fan back on later as well.
• Dicing the onion the right way is awesome.
• USWNT beat Sweden to get 1st in their group. We play Spain in the round of 16, and then likely France in the round of 8. It could very likely be a USA-Germany final.
• NBA draft.
• The heaviest person of all time was 1400lbs.
• If you just change the "r" in the reddit url to "c" then you can see posts that dumb mods have removed.

• Hung out with Eric and the whole family all day. Woke up at 6, gymmed, then beached and piered.
• Created the splitwise group to settle all the Austin finances.
• (Certain) Corporate action(s) can be taken without a shareholder meeting, even if the company is private, like SpaceX. It must win by majority shareholder vote nonetheless. They must notify the shareholders, by law.
• These are usually equity dilutions, like increasing the total number of shares by ~0.01%.
• This directly decreases the percentage of the company you own, and therefore your voting right, but that was never substantial anyway. It does affect value though, because external valuations are usually done on the total worth of the company, and then simply divided by the number of shares. It's a sneaky, indirect way to dilute your equity, since these events (dilution and valuation) are usually months apart.
• Did Hawaii planning.
• The friends leg is just pettys/gmereks/remilins (6) so far.
• Harner/Eddie/Jonny already have flights home and other plans.
• Allie is out for the friends leg, and is waffling the wedding leg.
• Wes/Jcriss/I are the other 3 who are considering the friends leg, which would make 9. If so, Wes and I would be the only ones with the same flights for the whole trip.
• I would like to go both legs. I will definitely need the LAX-HNL flight for the wedding. If Wes and Jcriss go on the other leg, I'll definitely go, and would need HNL-LIH + LIH-LAX. I would like to encourage Allie to come to both.
• I can make al pastor for the bay whenever they come down.
• Trim a pork butt into strips (easier to buy boneless for this, obv).
• Make my usual dry rub (salt, pepper, paprika, garlic, onion), but then add Achiote paste and Guajillo chili powder and mix it all with pineapple juice to make a marinade (or just buy a premade pastor marinade). Let it sit overnight, then smoke as usual.
• Spritz with pineapple juice instead of water.
• Using openssl you can create a root certificate (used to generate other certificates) and then specify localhost as the domain to trust. Fairly simply article here: https://medium.com/free-code-camp/how-to-get-https-working-on-your-local-development-environment-in-5-minutes-7af615770eec.
• Guajillo chiles are the second most popular chile in Mexico. Poblanos are #1. Ancho is the name for dried Poblano.
• The carolina reaper is the hottest pepper in the world. Before that it was scorpion, then naga, then ghost. There are claims for 2x the carolina (Pepper X) but they have not been confirmed yet.
• New peppers are created by literally breeding other insanely hot peppers.

• Remember superchargers and turbochargers are a little different. Both compress the air going into the engine to add about 50% more power, but the turbo takes it from the exhaust gases (turbine->compressor) and the super takes it from the crankshaft (belt->compressor). The turbine has a slight amount of lag and then will lurch forward (because the air must move through the whole engine before you get the boost). The super delivers extra power all the way through. The Kawasaki Ninja H2 is the first bike with a super, I believe. There are custom Hayabusas with turbos.
• Oh, forgot to write my Franklin's BBQ review.
• Rankings:
1. Brisket. The best I've ever had.
2. Ribs. Good, but too much pepper.
3. Pulled Pork. The usual.
4. Turkey. Tasty, but too much butter, and they only had breast.
5. Sausage. Surprisingly bad.
• Overall, the brisket was incredible. Everything else was about par with what I cook at home.
• The wait in line / drinking / relaxing was fun. We went on a Thursday and waited from about 830-1230. Worth it to do once - is probably not worth a repeat when there are so many other comparable BBQ places around.

• Back home from the Austin trip with Richard and Derek! Was a blast. We even go to talk to James.
• Medieval Times for Eddie/Ray/Haley yesterday. Awesome place.
• USWNT beat Chile 3-0.
• Finished Leadership and Self Deception and The Untethered Soul. Added notes to drive.
• Periodicals:
• There's a <clippy> html element now: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/06/introducing-the-new-html-element-welcome.
• The most-spoken languages in India: Hindi 57%, English 10%, Bengali 9%. Punjabi is only 4%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilingualism_in_India.
• You can use nacho analytics (and google analytics) to see the traffic on any website, not just your own. https://www.nachoanalytics.com/. I started reading this, thinking it was going to reveal a cool website trick for growth/etc, but it ended up just being a sales pitch for nacho's feature set: https://www.nachoanalytics.com/blog/amazons-growth-hack/.
• Did some research for the Hawaii trip, both the first wedding leg and the second friends leg. Tentatively:
• Fly from LAX to Oahu on Thursday August 8. Wedding Saturday 10th.
• Leave Oahu Tuesday August 13 for Kauai. Stay at the Sheraton Kauai resort.
• Leave Kauai on Saturday the 17th.

• Really tough yesterday with Kevin Durant.
• Reinjured the same leg, likely from playing before being ready/healed. You can see the leg snap here: https://youtu.be/lYrA30qcvK4?t=49.
• Bob Myers gave an emotional statement about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3esK_em420.
• Awesome reunion of 88 year old dad with 53 year old son with down's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXDvD-jLn74.
• Cancelled classpass.
• Received and set up the wireless mouse. Works great. The usb a-c adapters work well too.
• Woah. You can send documents to your kindle via email. This is very convenient right now since my ubuntu laptop can't talk to it. You simply make sure your email is whitelisted (your default amazon address is), then email your kindle address (check in device management, like brian.mahlstedt_<number>@kindle.com). You can type "Convert" in the subject to automatically convert. Amazing. Did this for two documents.
• React/redux work. Took notes on my google doc.
• Played with youtube live again. You have access to the same settings beforehand: private, public, chat enabled, etc. You can then edit the video after you end the stream, but it's only stuff like captions and other standard settings. You can't snip, filter, add sound, all the advanced editing functionality. Do that offline and upload, don't use livestream.
• The women's world cup started. United states beat Thailand 13-0!

• Android emulation.
• Genymotion is probably the most popular android emulator for linux. Downloaded the personal-use edition.
• Needed to apt install virtualbox first. Then chmod +x the genymotion bin and simply run it.
• Created a desktop icon for it so I wouldn't have to execute the binary from the command line every time (and leave the pesky terminal around). Just create a APPNAME.desktop file with a hashbang that farms out to xdg-open, including the paths to the binary and the icon.
• Added StartupWMClass to the .desktop so the icon wouldn't duplicate.
• When emulating a device, my laptop craaawled. The galaxy s9 was unusable. An old Google Pixel (around galaxy s6 days) was even slow. My laptop only has 3.6GB of ram and 8GB of swap, but all ram was railed and swap was at 50%. Not sustainable, and I hadn't even run any heavy android apps yet.
• Ended up unistalling genymotion and virtualbox. Was too slow.
• Looked around and found Anbox, which runs Android in a container instead of a vm, and farms many android tasks back to your native linux host.
• Added the ppa and installed linux-headers-generic anbox-modules-dkms. Then installed the anbox snap.
• Google play store doesn't come automatically with android (licensing and such). You'd normally have to install apks manually, OR the better option of something like houdini. This script provisions all of that for you: https://github.com/geeks-r-us/anbox-playstore-installer/blob/master/install-playstore.sh.
• Anbox also didn't work. Games wouldn't open because of Anbox' unique configuration.
• Lastly, looked at the Android SDK itself. It requires minimum 4GB ram and recommends 8GM. Mine is below both.
• In summary, my laptop does not have enough memory to use a VM-based android emulator.
• Bought an adapter to connect my phone/laptop to older hard drives and kindle and such. Usb-c (android size) male to usb-a female.
• Remember, usb-b is the boxier one (usually printers and such).
• Micro and mini are the other obvious ones.
• Also, remember, usb-c comes in two sizes: android and iphone. My linux laptop is the android size, because that's the standard. If you see usb-c with no other qualifiers, it's the android size.
• Bought a wireless mouse as well.
• Reinstalled the gnome system monitor. It doesn't open sometimes, and this seems to fix it.
• MD. In javascript, the variable declarations are hoisted but not their values.
• I feel like an absolute idiot for never taking advantage of this, but you can actually do curly brace expansion in bash. `echo {hello,world}` or `echo {0..10}`. You can even combine two curly brace arguments for combinations. My goodness.
• DKMS = dynamic kernel module support. Used with virtualbox.
• Shopped for a RAM upgrade to my XPS13.
• DDR4 is newer and faster than DDR3L, which was a midterm upgrade for DDR3.
• Need a T5 to open the back.
• Unfortunately, I can't upgrade the RAM on the 13 easily because it's solder to the motherboard lol. On the 15" and above models, they have additional slots but the 13" does not. In order to have more RAM, I would have needed to upgrade at factory purchase, or replace the whole motherboard myself.
• Don't need the torx screwdriver anymore.
• Brainstormed some ideas for internet companies. Nothing huge jumped out, but the immersion helps. I want to be more mindful as I go through my day-to-day about anything that is annoying, even in the slightest. These inconveniences are just opportunities for improvement.
• YouTube.
• Went through my channel and removed liked videos. Added a few subscribers.
• YouTube Studio is in beta. It's a cool dashboard for everything on your channel.
• You can see your total subscriber count, but not the individual subscribers (unless they've chosen to allow that to be public).
• You can change 3 privacy settings: your liked videos, your subscriptions, and your playlists. All of mine are not public.
• You can livestream, but YouTube is much more geared toward recording and editing a video offline, then uploading it.
• Motorcycles
• Cool drag race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnTL4wDAbK0.
• Quarter mile ranks:
1. H2R
2. F1 Redbull
3. F16
4. Tesla P100D
5. Aston Martin Vantage
6. Plane
7. Lotus Evora
• Observations:
• Off the line, the bike and F1 and Tesla were all about the same, dusting everything else.
• The bike took the lead through the midrange.
• At a quarter mile, the bike and F1 were about the same, ahead of everything.
• After that the F1 would have overtaken the bike.
• After that, the aircraft pull way ahead.
• H2R facts:
• Same combustion volume as my ducati, but over 4 cylinders instead of 2. About 2x the horsepower and 1.5x the torque. About 35lbs heavier also.
• It's currently the fastest motorcycle. It's not street legal.
• It can go from 0-250mph in 26s (lol): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_n7ru1e-rg. My ducati top speed is probably around 170mph, and would get there in around 15s.
• Gave Ken about 5lbs pulled pork for home, and gave Allie about 5 more pounds to bring to work. I'm leaving for Texas so I won't be able to finish all the leftovers before Wed.
• Finals game 5 in toronto. Warriors won! Back to Oracle.

• Got over 3500 pages of printed documentation from healthnet in the mail, unsolicited. It's basically a printout of a registry of all provider. This is unacceptable in 2019. It's a gigantic waste of paper, shipping infrastructure, delivery jobs, and more. Sure, there might be a percent of members who do not have access to a computer, but this paper delivery should be opt-in during member registration.
• Paid a $48 parking ticket on Allie's car because we're in the summer 1hr months.
• Great day of volleyball. Tweaked my back a little bit.
• Bruins push to game 7.

• Parents left. Was a great couple days. Cooked leftover smoked chicken stir fry on thursday, sweet potato homefries and bacon and poached eggs and bananas/blueberries on friday morning, then smoked pork shoulder on friday night.
• Warriors lost last night, didn't look good.
• Interesting video on some pitfalls of streaming services like netflix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDF-S68kx5o. It's not healthy competition. Every show is IP which means it has an exclusive license. Like a ... monopoly.
• saidit.net looks like it was closed.
• Finished Harper's Island. Was pretty decent.
• UFC 238. Shevchenko had the best female KO I've ever seen. Cejudo was a monster as well.

• Bought the flight to Austin, Wed-Sat (have to be back before Eddie's). It's a little early on Sat morning (7am), which will suck after Friday night, but it was the best option. Used 25k miles, leaving the price at $6. I have ~150k miles left still. Probably do Franklin on Thursday, get in line at 8am and drink chair beers for 3 hours until they open.
• Meta = most effective tactics available. Used in gaming, refers to the best strategy/combo.
• Talked to pops. They're gonna come to hermosa tomorrow and we'll have a couple days to hang. Shopped to make sure I had enough for them.
• Warriors game 3.
• Klay, Durant, and Looney all out due to injury.
• Iggy, Boogie not 100%.
• Steph and Draymond the only starters who are normal. Wow.

• Idiosyncrasy = odd habit, peculiarity. If someone is idiosyncratic, they're peculiar.
• Netflix Tech Blog: container cpu isolation.
• CFS = Completely Fair Scheduler. Mainstream solution to timeslice the cpus properly.
• They wrote another better one call titus-isolate, optimized for their container usage.
• Kawhi filed a lawsuit yesterday against Nike for using the logo he designed: 
• Bought a yoga mat finally so I don't have to keep borrowing from friends (or paying $2 rental) for each classpass.
• Aprilia's mainstay, the RSV4, comes in a few models.
• RR and RF are basically the same but the RF has a little better suspension and tires.
• LE means limited edition. Usually just graphics / aesthetics.
• FW means factory works. This is their GP bike, the best race bike.
• Derek reached out about visiting Dick in Austin. Looked at flights next wed-sat (would have to be back for eddie's renn faire lol) and they were $190.
• 20 year prediction: 10% of all jobs will become remote. Offices and commutes will become inefficiencies of the past.
• Dcraig hit me up about the signed goodbye poster they forgot lol. Told him that Allie or Spencer could take it home, but otherwise I'd be happy to catch up as well!
• Smoked chicken. Added to journal.
• Fed mouse.
• Grandma passed away tonight. So thankful for the complementary model she and grandpa left for us, and maybe even moreso for the model they raised their own children with - my mom/dad + aunts/uncles sure paid it forward. As I was hanging up with my mom, trying to plan a time to meet, the words "we'll stay in touch, and we'll find a way" came out of my mouth. I don't think that was an accident.

• How many movies/shows would even remain if you removed the "pinned girl hits mounted attacker with unnoticed sharp/heavy object" scene ... ?
• Costco, reupped on chicken and almonds.
• Average salary for a pharmacist is ~125k in our area.
• Education.
• You can't declare bankruptcy on student loans.
• College is 2.5x more expensive than it was a few decades ago. Most of the bloat is due to administration.
• Now, in 2019, more information can be found online than in universities. In many cases, the quality is better as well. Individuals can give themselves the capabilities which merit a degree, but there's no accreditation mechanism yet. A business that found a way to do this (likely a well-designed sequence of tests) would uproot all of academia (for the better!). Loans, inflation, tribalism, administration, federal funding - so many improvements.
• If you have a memory that's a couple years old, and you still have an emotional reaction to it, you need to address it! What was the cause? What could you have done better? How can you improve yourself to improve that outcome next time? This introspection is huge. If you're plagued by your past, your body produces the stress hormone cortisol, because it's an alarm to a vulnerability. Cortisol makes you age! Once you isolate the cause and understand how to better act next time, your body literally becomes healthier.
• Notes from pharmarket meeting yesterday:
• Info:
• We'll have an account soon to compare.
• Certain drugs have way better ROI. Go after those vendors first.
• Hold the money for a month until vendor billing cycle, then collect X percentage from vendor. Show original prices on our site.
• Offer service to feed prices, for the vendors without a frontend. They can update a google sheet or something and we can fetch it. This is a huge benefit for smaller vendors who want their stuff in the marketplace.
• Universal app wasn't as complicated as we had thought, just basically need a license.
• Meds have way more regulation, that's why amazon integration is hard.
• Ezrirx and amazon are both in this market, but that doesn't mean we can't take a stab.
• Medline is another company that sells (non-rx) supplies.
• There is so much value in aggregating the search locations alone. Instead of buying 6 supplies from 4 separate sites, do it all in the same place.
• https://www.mdm.com/2017-top-pharmaceuticals-distributors
• 3 companies account for more than 90% of the drug distribution market: AmerisourceBergen (ABC), Cardinal Health (CAH), and McKesson (MCK). These are the "Big Three Wholesalers" and each has a revenue of well over 100B alone (together almost half a trillion).
• Amazon's revenue in 2018 for comparison: 230b.
• The next few large wholesalers: CuraScript, Morris & Dickson, Smith, FFF, Rochester, North Caroline Mutual, Anda.
• Action items:
• Finish the MVP website.
• Get domain name and host.
• Populate with fake data from multiple vendors. You might be able to get some public data for generics. Some sites even list their rx (like https://auromedics.com/products/ampicillin-and-sulbactam/, for example).
• Write template API that we'll encourage vendors to use.
• Add basic user login which protects the price comp tool endpoint.
• Add basic landing page which shows the benefits for (a) pharmacies and (b) vendors (separate tabs?).
• Go speak with vendors. Get them onboard and get their data. Then go speak with pharmacies. Get them to use it. Then repeat and grow.
• Here is where you can search for some vendors: https://search.dca.ca.gov/.
• Parlays. They're simply a compound bet. Instead of betting for a single team to win (or a single line, or whatever), you're betting for multiple. As long as none of them lose, you win. Because of the compound probability of failure, the payouts are usually very high
• Adding team parlay bets to the supercontest app would be huge. People would love it. Look at how popular fan duel is for players. Opening these bets up to teams would be a great opportunity. Created https://github.com/brianmahlstedt/supercontest/issues/49.
• James lost on jeopardy! He was 60k from beating Ken's alltime record, and his average was 80k per night, so tonight should have been the night he became the GOAT. The opponent got both daily doubles, which was an inevitable misfortune eventually, but I still find it so strange that everything happened to fall into place tonight. After 32 victories, his streak ends on literally the night it should have become the record. Hm.

• Watched Ma yesterday. Loved it! Was a fresh premise for the horror genre so overloaded with repeats.
• Stanley cup game 3 and UFC Gus vs Anthony Smith yesterday. Streams are now posted on https://saidit.net/s/MMAStreams/comments/ because r/mmastreams was shut down.
• D3 = Data Driven Documents. It's a way to manipulate the DOM as data changes.
• https://www.ibj.com/articles/72632-amazons-latest-target-is-pharmacy-disruption
• Indiana has a ton of fulfillment centers that deliver meds.
• They've been working on entering this market since ~2017.
• This will help drive prices down, obviously, as it has done for all other open markets on amazon.
• Amazon bought PillPack (online pharmacy) for $753m.
• CVS, Walgreens, and RiteAid lost over 11b in market value that day.
• Art said this won't affect independent pharmacies, just the big chains.
• Amazon wouldn't need to create an infrastructure to compare prices, it's already baked into their stack. Filters, sorts, etc. Our kayak-like pharmacy wouldn't be of much value.
• Met with Art again. Will post notes tomorrow.
• Warriors game 2!

• HN.
• Awesome people map: https://pudding.cool/2019/05/people-map/.
• EOLs for common products: https://endoflife.date/.
• Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1opHWsHr798.
• Something like "inheritance jealousy" - if a dumb person inherits a billion dollars, you might be mildly annoyed because of their luck. If a competent, smart person gets a billion dollars, you are much more jealous. You are more threatened. Hierarchies are fundamentally efficient structures, and they provide purpose + goals, but they create resentment in the majority. Cain and Abel.
• Audited all the phone bills and sent the balance (looks like $240) to mom to confirm.
• While there are babel libraries to offer multi-language support, in webdev babel is the javascript compiler.
• Split was Hollywood's first surprise sequel, where it was not marketed as such and rather left the bruce willis surprise for the end of the film. It follows Unbreakable, and the trilogy is concluded with Glass.
• I like the whitestrips more than the mouthpiece with the light. It's too salivating. However, I do like the sequence of charcoal brushing right before the treatment, and will do so for whitestrips in the future.
• React and redux practice.

• Most had originally thought (amount in diet = amount in blood). So, if you ate more cholesterol, for example, your blood would have more cholesterol, which is bad. Now, the equation is more clearly (amount in diet + amount produced = amount in blood). This applies to a lot, and is changing how we view a lot of foods (especially ones that were historically looked down on like saturate fat). If you eat more of something, your body produces less of it, and vice versa.
• Transferred 10k (online limit) to parents, then went in to transfer the other 20. Spoke with a customer service representative about the $5 fees on the closed savings account. They said that they can revert fees up to 90 days old, so they credited $15 dollars back to my account lol. The other 200+ are lost.
• Interesting PEP for the removal of many stdlib modules, due to obsoletion and/or replacement: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0594/#deprecated-modules.
• RSVPed for 2 for Arlen/Rob's wedding. Eddie is gonna add us to his AirBnB. I'm gonna wait to buy flights because I don't know if I'll be leaving from the Bay or LA.
• With some elimination, I've noticed a pretty clear causation for my back pain. It's Leg Day. I need to be extremely cautious, warm up, and stretch before any of these lifts.
• Homemade sushi for the first time ever, it was amazing! Sticky rice, spicy sesame oil, salt and pepper, seaweed, salmon, avocado. That's it. Cost about $16 for 4 rolls, probably half the restaurant price.
• WARRIORS RAPTORS game 1 finals.
• Talked with Art a bit more.
• Because we decide to flee or pursue, we should speak with pharmacies. User storymapping. Discuss the problem before understanding the solution.
• A footrace is gonna have execution risk. Other products are way ahead, with bigger staff, etc. If we try to make a cleaner website, an easier signup process, a larger pharmacy base, rebates whatever - then we're probably going to lose. We need to shift a bit more into market risk. What different feature does our stack have that others don't? What additional service can ours provide?
• Other models: buy in situ (orbitz model), take a percentage cut (amazon).
• Another model we could try: redirect for purchase and take a query fee (kayak).

• Teeth whiteners. Newer charcoal products are effective at removing stains, because activated charcoal's outer pores will strip away any foreign bodies on the outer surface of your teeth. However, they don't bleach the teeth like hydrogen (or carbamide) peroxide based whiteners do. These take time, working beneath the surface to actually change the color of your teeth. I'll probably get a charcoal jar to use sparingly (maybe brush once every couple weeks) for regular maintenance, but still use whitestrips about once a year for the actual whitening effect.
• Went to store, placed regular amazon order, and amazon fresh order! All for various elements of making sushi at home tomorrow.
• There are MANY important KPIs for websites: dwell time, new unique visitors, signups, return visitors, on and on and on. https://databox.com/website-kpis-and-measuring-performance.
• Watched an entrepreneurship video from FW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-Cbav_Dt2s.
• Market risk. Better to play this game as a young person with an idea. Usually something novel, first product/service to create the market. You're buying a lottery ticket. Higher risk, higher reward.
• Execution risk. Better to play this game as an established entrepreneur. Usually not a market-changing technology, but some improvement that's basically guaranteed to become successful. You can buy a team of sales, marketers, employees etc to see it to market first. Lower risk, lower reward.
• This guy is pretty cool. Justin Kan. Biggest creation: twitch. He has a few smaller ones as well. He talks about mindfulness and how important diet/sleep/exercise/meditation are to his success.
• Company culture is so so important. Make your employees feel like things are happening through them instead of to them.
• Started reading two books: The Untethered Soul and Leadership and Self Deception.
• Jon Snow checked into rehab: https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/kit-harington-checked-into-treatment-center-for-wife-rose-leslie/.
• Went to bank of america. Deposited my solium check. Can't transfer until it clears (SOB tomorrow). Transferred my remaining balance in the savings account to the checking account, then closed savings. The $5 monthly fees were for being below a minimum lol. Ridiculous policy. The agent said she would try to waive them.
• Did some valuation research on the ninja. KBB, cycletrader, and craigslist all were in the range of 2-3k for my year, odo, condition, etc. I would probably sell to a private party at around 1.5k because of the shift fork on 2nd gear. I might drop as low as $1000 for a friend.

• Finally got a tracking number for Urthbox. If it arrives in a couple days, it will have taken 2 months to arrive after the order was placed.
• The Solium check hasn't arrived either. If it arrives tomorrow, it will have taken 2 weeks for a $20 delivery fee.
• Cheerio is the npm package for using jquery in node. You can select DOM elements, act on them, etc. Also serves a functionality like beautiful soup.
• Axios is the npm package for an http browser client, like solium. It enables webscraping.
• The chase for the world's largest tesla coil: http://lod.org/. Lightning on demand!
• Pharm
• Startup research.
• Develop your business model.
• Plan to grow, services provided, etc.
• Build the beta website.
• Develop your company model.
• Create the LLC.
• The contracts between cofounders of a startup are pretty well figured out at this point: https://fi.co/insight/how-to-create-the-perfect-cofounder-agreement-with-your-business-partner.
• Vesting schedule. Founder's equity. The person who had the original idea should increase by about 5%. If no other employees/investors have equity, this would mean 55/45.
• Patent/Copyright/Trademark/Trade Secret. Usually one is necessary.
• Get funding. NDAs are necessary here.
• Market to customers. Expand.
• LLC research.
• Limited Liability Company. The owners won't risk personal assets if it goes bankrupt or gets sued. Can't intermix personal money.
• To start an LLC, you file Articles of Organization and Operating Agreement with the Secretary of State (online) and pay a fee.
• LLCs can choose to be taxed like a partnership (see LLP below, basically personal income tax for partners) or like a corporation.
• Different from:
• Sole proprietorship. The simplest. The owner is responsible for all debts. It is not a legal entity. Just register for license. Also allows you to mix personal funds with the business. Taxed with owner as regular income.
• Partnership. Can be general partnership (like sole proprietorship but with an even split for profit/debt across multiple people) or limited liability partnership (called an LLP, and still taxed on the partners' personal taxes). LLPs are common for architecture and law firms.
• Corporation. The most common for larger companies. You have to have common stock, license, board of directors, etc. Very similar to LLC, just larger. The owners still have limited liability. The corp is basically another person in legal eyes. They're taxed separately and make decisions separately. Corp vs Inc - it doesn't matter, but once you declare, you have to be consistent in all your legal nomenclature after that. Most common type is C Corp.
• Allie knows a decent amount about all of this.
• Looked up some more domain names. These are available: focuseuticals, rxcenterpiece, keynoterx, plazapharm, rxcapitol, bazaarpharma, bazaarpharm, racketpharm, pharmracket, pharmaracket, rxracket, rxcrux, kernelpharm, pharmakernel, kernelrx, rxkernel.
• I loooove racketpharm because it sounds like "rocket farm" and implies you're getting something for ridiculously cheap, but has negative connotations because technically rackets are illegal business handlings so it might deter people.
• kernelrx and bazaarpharma both sound pretty good too, and are self-descriptive.
• Still a little hesitant due to the maturity of other established sites.

• Murder mystery party was awesome yesterday. The curry brisket turned out pretty good as well. We finished one packer and I took the second home for leftovers this week.
• Cast iron pans shouldn't be soaked, for fear of rust. They also shouldn't be washed with soap, which might strip some of the seasoning on the pan (the seasoning is usually vegetable oil).
• Warriors raptors finals baby. We're the heavy favorites, but I love both teams. Some articles some that this is a bigger threat than Lebron's Cavaliers the best 4 years. That's ridiculous. There have been 9 NBA finals sweeps in the history of the league. I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes the 10th. Also, Drake is a diehard raptors fan but has warriors tattoos.
• Reminder about betting lines. If a team is +150 and you bet $100, you would get back your $100 plus $150 in winnings. If a team is -250 and you bet $250, you would get back your $250 plus $100 in winnings. A positive line is for the underdog and you risk less than you gain. A negative line is for the favorite and you risk more than you gain.
• The superbook line is -310 for the warriors in the finals, a very heavy favorite.

• Scrolldown animations are very popular now. Just slight shifting of the text and increasing opacity is enough to give the user a nice scroll feel. Also gives a bit better load time and responsiveness, since the lower panes don't have to load when the initial page does.
• Decent overview: https://www.bluecompass.com/blog/how-to-liven-up-your-website-with-scroll-animation.
• The difference between iterator and iterable. They're very similar, they just slightly differ in how Python deals with them under the hood. Both can be looped over. Iterators just have an explicit __next__() method so they inherently know how they're supposed to be iterated over. Iterables don't have this behavior. Python calls iter() on them to determine how to sequence the iteration. TLDR: An iterator has the "how to iterate over my data" baked into it. An iterable does not.
• Put the new amex credit card info for AAA autopay.
• HN
• FB makes it very hard to get your data off. Some have written tools to help: https://github.com/weskerfoot/DeleteFB.
• https://www.starlink.com/
• vars() is useful. Called without arguments, it's like locals. Called on a variable (like vars(myvar)), it will return the __dict__ elements.
• Cool visual about how website design has changed from 1990 till now: http://fabianburghardt.de/webolution/.
• Wonderful collection of bash reminders: https://github.com/jlevy/the-art-of-command-line.
• Meditated for a bit today for the first time in a long time, love it. Great for destressing.
• Did a little research into carnivory and other dietary choices. Some are extreme, like the sole "beef-salt-water" lifestyle. There are worshippers of this end of the spectrum, just like there are on the vegan side. Both with firsthand accounts and both with scientific research. Cholesterol too. Diff btw dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol.