• Monday

    • Private work.
    • Jacob riis beach yesterday then ayce korean (gen).
    • Drain unclogger in sink + shower. Cleaned black mold from grout as well. Most common sneezing/coughing/eyes/etc, not lethal, but airborne. Don’t need a respirator, just gloves + goggles + n95 or n99 mask.
    • For 2023 US: Amazon has ~38% of ecommerce, walmart is #2 at ~7%.
    • NYT crosswords.
      • Quotes are synonyms of the verbalization (“stop!” = HALT).
      • Brackets suggests an answer that might be nonverbal ([I don’t care] = SHRUG).
      • Minis 5×5, midis 11×11, regulars 15×15, sundays 21×21.
      • Monday easiest. Saturday hardest. Increasing difficulty (clue abstraction) through the week. Sunday is not the hardest; it’s ~midweek difficulty, but they’re larger.
    • Homonyms are the general category of all.
      • Homophones = diff meaning, any spelling, same pronunciation.
      • Homographs = diff meaning, same spelling, any pronunciation.
      • Heteronyms = diff meaning, same spelling, diff pronunciation.
    • https://resources.messari.io/state_of_market_Q2_2023.pdf
    • Gukesh, Arjun, Pragg, and Vidit – all through to final 8. Amazing show from the Indian youth.