some excerpts from Stay True:

• american life is unbounded promise
• immigrants are discussed in terms of push and pull dynamic: something pushes you from home, something pulls you far away.
• opportunities dry up one place and emerge somewhere else
• they chose the occasional loneliness, the meandering lifestyle, the language barrier
• bob dylan, beatles, neil young, aretha franklin, ray charles the who, jimi hendrix, pink floyd, blind faith

is going out to cafes and not bringing a charger a productivity hack since the time pressure forces you to lock in and it also prevents you from overworking

i love central market. it's the best grocery store i've ever been to. full stop. i got ny steak, almond milk, pistachio milk, spinach, blueberries, bananas, kimchi, tofu, coconut yoghurt.

mood: 4/5

wake: 11:00
sleep: 3:00

meals:

• breakfast: rice chicken beef kimchi
• lunch: 6pm taco deli chicken res rice avo mash pumpkin seeds
• dinner: -

grateful for: tex mex

til:

• Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) are the reasons why drugs are expensive in the US, the middleman who price drugs high.
  • 80% of drug transactions are dominated by a few major players like CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and Optum RX
  • incentivized to favor drugs with higher list price so they can demand larger rebates from manufacturers, to increase their own earnings
  • collect billions in fees and markup drug prices, and keeping the profits rather than lowering cost
  • a product of US private insurance model. unlike SEA like Malaysia where government is the dominant payer, and are negotiating directly with manufacturers.
• you can use this js code to expand all github items

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