Thursday, January 22, 2026

📝 Ephemeral Notes

• #til2026 Soft drink
  • Removing alcohol to continue selling cola infused drinks during the prohibition
• #til2026 Kelly Criterion
  • Making economical decision with long term compounding in consideration
  • Choose the course of action that maximises the expected log-wealth of the thing
  • https://entropicthoughts.com/the-misunderstood-kelly-criterion
• #til2026 Patent Medicine
  • Remedies sold over the counter claiming that could cure-all
  • Mostly snakeoil containing drug
  • But some became modern day drugs like Vapo Rub, Listerine, Asprin (crated by Bayer)
• #til2026 Levi jean number system
  • Levi themselves don’t know the origins of them because the records were lost in the San Francisco Fire of 1906
  • They also don’t know the origin of the arcuate stitching design on the back pocket
  • https://www.levistrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/History-of-Levis-501-Jeans.pdf

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