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@jeresig Thank you John! Started using jQuery in 2009. Still the best library experience out there!

Hard to believe it's been 20 years... incredible! And so much has changed since then. JavaScript has moved from a fun lang dabbling in apps (Ajax) to something that has changed all of software engineering (Node, TypeScript). An amazing adventure 🚀

Fantastic details with clear explanation about icon design flaws in Apple's Tahoe. Masterclass in icon design and layouts!

@mhp_guy wakerack.com does this from North Carolina. With FL and TX locations. Online booking. 2 guys running the business. Talked to them earlier this year. Fast growing. Capital intensive to build the storage racks. revenue sharing with parks.

This is a cool biz. Automated kayak rental. $3 to unlock the kayak plus an additional $3 every 30 minutes. 6 people were counted unlocking it over a 3 hour period. A. I wonder how much this one kiosk makes. B. I wonder how else you could apply this concept. I kinda love it.

@mhp_guy Great analysis of door to door sales. Always wondered why so many pest companies show up in spring and summer. What other services are sold similarly? What about HOAs who want stop these sales?

THE ECONOMICS OF A DOOR TO DOOR PEST CONTROL SALES BRO A good friend just spent the summer selling pest control in Philly. I (of course) had to interview him for the inside scoop, so here you go: Money Stats: Doors knocked per day: 100 People spoken to per day: 30 Sales per day: 3 Contract value per sale: $714 Commissions made per sale: $280 Contracts signed: 124 1st year revenue: $92,000 after 2 cancellations Take home cash after 4 months: $35k in 4 months or $36/hour per hour spent knocking 60 knockers in his area started, and only 40 finished He was 75th percentile in sales, closing about 10% of people he spoke to. His partner closed 20% and the average was 5% The company banks 100% of revenue from year 2 on, and pays 35-50% of 1st year revenue to the knockers. The more they sell, the higher the % split. Time stats: 16 weeks, 6 days per week 10 hours per day, never missed a day 1 knock every 6 minutes, on average Rode a segue to save time and energy walking and could knock about 50% more doors this way His manager made $225k in 4 months and the regional owner made $300k. They spend the other 8 months recruiting. In typical Utah fashion, the company pays healthy bonuses and swag for recruiting their friends to knock as well, as much as $50 per contract signed all summer. The door knockers are mostly returned missionaries from Provo/SLC area of Utah. Costs: 5 of them shared a 2 bedroom Extended Stay hotel in the suburbs and each paid $600/month to be there They paid for their own gas and food and brought their own cars Notes & Takeaways: They used an app to track which doors answered vs otherwise and would hit the same neighborhood 4-5x. The more they came back, the higher the likelihood of a sale once the customer did answer. There were less people home in the mornings but the probability of a sale was higher, as people were less rushed. Most of the sales bros were on adderall, and noticed their sales dropped considerably when they ran out. His favorite sales tip? Be quick to respond but slow to speak. For example: Sales bro: "Is anyone doing your pest control right now?" Homeowner: "Yeah Terminix" - immediately interjects as soon as the last word is said, while speaking very slowly and saying: "Perfect! You've seen them spray right, they aren't doing anything else yeah?" The transition word "perfect!" is critical because it's positive and energetic, and then they "box in" the competitor by pointing out how they aren't doing enough, but *his* company does *more* than just spray. He said that if you can overcome 4+ objections then the chance of a sale is significantly higher. If you don't have the stamina to get to 4 objections then you're NGMI anyway. I advised Matt in the spring to NOT take this job, as I'd heard that you had to sell your soul to be successful. I've never done door to door sales. He reported back that this wasn't always true. There were guys that sold their soul and sold twice as well, but you could still do very well while being honest and simply overcoming objections. He also said there was a direct correlation between lower IQ and higher sales ability, as they would just turn their brain off and go. There's a lesson there, I'm sure. You could apply these lessons to solar, alarm systems roofing, and what else am I missing for door to door sales? I feel like there are hundreds of untapped verticals that this would work for. I knew a guy making bank buying electronics door to door. Why am I posting this? Because I find the economics of anything super interesting and thought you might as well. I hope you learned something. Follow @mhp_guy for more cool stuff! That's Matt cheesing for you on the job below.

That was close! Fun final to watch. Fantastic bowling under pressure by Indians 💯

DECOUPLING FROM DOLLARS The US sends India billions in printed dollars for valuable goods. This is actually the US government ripping off India, like it does Vietnam, and everyone else, including its own citizens...not vice versa. To be precise: last year India exported $87B of valuable goods to the US for $42B of goods plus $45B worth of increasingly worthless dollars: That difference of $45B was, effectively, made up by money printing, which the Fed does at will: The current administration incorrectly thinks this is a bad deal for America, because they haven’t fully thought through the fact that the US can print dollars. India was giving America something that's always valuable (namely goods) for something that America can just print out of thin air (namely US dollars): So...who was really ripping off whom? As mentioned, this is the same trade America had with Vietnam. Vietnam worked hard to send America shoes, while America sent Vietnam printed dollars. And it’s the same trade America had with many countries, before the trade war. The world sends the US valuable goods, and gets mere Federal Reserve database entries in return: The only reason the US had the right to do that — to run the financial database of the world, to print trillions for itself, and to freeze and seize the funds of billions — is because it set up what we call the rules-based order, what is in reality the American Empire. And of course it profited from that empire tremendously, but so did most of the empire's participants. But now MAGA is dismantling that empire. It’s cutting off trade, talent, and even tourism. It’s abandoning its military commitments and telling allies to fend for themselves. It’s cutting off foreign aid and domestic universities. It is, in short, becoming a country not an empire. The reason is because MAGA is fundamentally confused. It romanticizes 1945 America (the manufacturing country) without fully admitting that 2025 America makes its money in a completely different way, by managing the hub of a global financial empire. Because the US is in denial about what it is — a money printer, not a manufacturer — it's currently on track to lose both the money-printing and the manufacturing. For example, the tariffs target the entire world (thereby reducing demand for the dollar in global trade) while also cutting off machine tools and raw materials from US entrepreneurs (thereby inhibiting the buildout of domestic manufacturing). Anyway, I won't linger on the outlook for the US. It's made its decision and will live with it. Perhaps it will indeed be a Golden Age of Reindustrialization. And perhaps the transition to a "republic, not an empire" will go much better than the similar imperial climbdown of the UK or the USSR. What should countries like India and Vietnam do? They should turn a necessity into a virtue. The trade war has provided a powerful Schelling Point for the entire world to simultaneously stop using the dollar at the same time. This is also what America says it wants, for foreigners to stop "exploiting" it by accepting its printed dollars for hard goods. So: abide by America's wishes and stop trading goods with America for dollars. Instead, trade goods with each other for local currencies (rather than USDs) and use gold for storing value (rather than USTs). Because there is no global reserve currency issued by a single country, trade remains roughly balanced over time. Singapore's former PM calls this "world minus one." It's the continuation of global capitalism, just without America, who has voluntarily taken itself out of the game. Yes, there's a short-term adaptation cost, but the quicker that a country can decouple from the dollar the better. Start saving in hard money instead.

@Dial8_ai Running this now with Cursor. Like the history feature, gives me clipboard history! very cool

We're now open-source! github.com/liamadsr/dial8…

Droid Run is awesome! It can automate complex tasks like navigating apps and interacting with UI elements, and even generate creative content! It created this tweet 💯🔥 @droid_run

Must have when visiting any government office in India. 😂 Which one will they want? One more passport photo one without glasses with white background? Black and white only 😜

@ChrisJBakke That is my start up. One platform to manage your startup launch to angel investing. AI powered. automatically tracks journey, meeting minutes and legal battles. creates podcast material. Vodka brand in basic version Premium version creates SPAC. Raising at $30M pre.

Tech is kind of funny because if you’re wildly successful, the logical end-state of your career is that you start a podcast, maybe launch a tequila brand, and dabble in some angel investing. And if you’re unsuccessful, you start a podcast, maybe launch a tequila brand, and dabble in some angel investing.

Let's go king kohli! 💯

Looking forward to presenting the session "The Future of Public Space Management: AI and Machine Learning in Landscape Architecture" with Shweta Nanekar and Alex Godette at the NC ASLA 2025 conference. site.pheedloop.com/event/2025ncas…

@bobbyfijan HOA rules are bad and anti freedom until a neighbor does something that you don't like. Or when a neighbor continues the bad behavior after you point it out to them.

Think about the worst, most entitled, inconsiderate dog owners you can imagine. The person who routinely, and unapologetically “forgets” to clean up after their dog. Who never follows leash rules. HOA rules are to protect people from them.

Because people don’t behave … and as frustrating as they are sometimes, the “rules” protect people from the most flagrantly inconsiderate The same dynamic exists in every condo and co-op building in Manhattan

Agreed. The knowledge part - Gen Z and later are not reading as many books. They are collecting knowledge efficiently from the sources you mentioned.

Ah! Things you could get away with on the airport in the good old days! 😂

@AskPerplexity What significant carve outs are included in the liberation day tariffs?

Just finished listening to Trump's Liberation Day speech and reading 5,000 pages on global tariff policy 📘 Ask your questions about Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs below:

@kmr_dilip Agreed. whatsapp may be 4th trusted source 😊

3) Trust Is everything and you don’t have It. Indian elders trust only 3 people: 1) Their doctor. 2) Their astrologer. 3) And their neighbour. They don’t trust apps. Or young people selling them wellness. They don't understand AI, ML or fancy tech. You can’t growth-hack trust. You have to earn it slowly, painfully, locally.

India has 150millon+ people above the age of 60. Huge opportunity to keep them healthy & fit. But everyone’s focusing on GenZ & no one’s building for their parents. It’s a hard business and we’ve invested in two companies. Here’s why it’s tough & how one should crack it.

@AravSrinivas Buy TikTok 😁

A future vision for Perplexity Deep Research: CEO of a trillion $ company, feeding all their financials and internal docs, and asking: "how do I make the market cap go up by 25% end of fiscal year", "what is the long-term vision for the decade". Answers that will move the GDP.

The Indus Valley Report 2025 - 4th edition is here!! 🎉 This report is our take on India and the Indian startup ecosystem, through different lenses to sensemake what we call as “Indus Valley” - a catch-all moniker for the Indian startup ecosystem. Here are 14 lenses or frames for you all to munch on @sajithpai @llnachull @blumeventures @dhruvtrehan9