• May 31, 2019

  • 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.
• May 30, 2019

  • 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).
• May 29, 2019

  • 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.
• May 28, 2019

  • 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.
• May 26, 2019

  • 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.
• May 24, 2019

  • 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.
• May 23, 2019

  • Yesterday spent the day in San Bernardino again.
  • Notes from art meeting Tuesday:
  • Prices drop after the usual patent (10yr?) expires, allowing generic meds to flood.
  • AWP = average wholesale price. There are usually hot items that have low awp and high resell value. Knowing these waves is much easier if you work in the industry.
  • Redirects and utm query params can identify the majority of traffic induced by our hub. Probably not close to 100%, but maybe ~70%?
  • LOTS of domain names are taken.
  • Can have public accounts for otc and pharmacy accounts for rx.
  • Applications take a few days and require signatures, etc. Some are even still mail, not digital. Abstracting all of this into a universal application has value on its own, even without the price comparisons. We’d aim to do both.
  • Getting a read-only account is another option. This seems more core to the principles of the idea. Completely skip all buying capability, just show prices. No account, nothing. Simpler.
  • Befriending a vendor would be huge at this stage. Could give details on price margins, traffic amounts, value of our product, etc.
  • Identity Politics. It’s something I’ve always been familiar with, but never knew the formal name for. Individual identity should come before group identity. Tribalism has historically ended in violence, and our modern world continues to confirm this. So much political conflict twirled around race, gender, etc.
  • PW/MD.
  • Checked mail. The solium check which was shipped on May 15, eight days ago, with a delivery method that cost $20, has not arrived yet 🙂
  • Bought brisket from costco. Trimmed and brined. Also bought jelly bellies for the counting game.
  • Bought prizes (drinks) from vons, as well as ring toss bottles (perrier lime lol).
  • Wow, this pharmarket alternative already exists: https://www.ezrirx.com/
  • Based in New Jersey. Founded 2016. They have the universal application, price comparison, and in-situ purchasing :/
  • We’ll create an account to see the list of wholesalers. If it’s not that many vendors, the market is still open.
  • Even if it’s legit, we have another model that may work: no account, no buying power. Just show up to the site and compare prices, like kayak. The hard part about this is it involves uprooting the status quo. We’d basically have to convince vendors to publish their prices.
  • In order to fully immerse someone in an experience, you must attend to as many senses as possible. Think of a date: a scene with candles, chocolate, music, flowers, and physical touch is much more impressive than an alternative with any one sense missing.