"A man from Chu who sold shields and spears boasted, 'My shield is so strong that nothing can pierce it. My spear is so sharp that there is no object it cannot pierce.'
Someone asked him, 'Would you like to be in Forbes?'"
- Han Feizi (c. 240 BC)
My latest pet peeve is when food reviewers use a 5 or 10 pt rating scale and then give ratings like 7.3 or 8.7. FIRST OF ALL there's no way your taste buds have that sort of resolution. SECOND you chose your own grading scale! Why didn't you just choose /100?!??!?
In China, many retirement homes don’t lock their doors so people can check on their older folks easily. In America, this would be considered a market inefficiency and 1 million Gary V wannabes would make TikTok reels on how to most efficiently capitalize.
I’m at a temple in China and it’s cold enough that the monks are wearing beanies. I knew Buddhism and Hinduism have similar roots but I was still surprised to see a picture of a cow on one beanie. I’m also sure 23 is a very pious number.
Something I didn’t know existed until very recently is that (bear with me) marketers market to other marketers and then marketers online talk about how good the marketing directed at marketers is, and how marketers can learn from it to market to regular people that have no idea what’s going on.
>be me
>move into new apartment a few months ago
>no more soap in bathroom
>uproot entire place looking for soap
>“I could’ve sworn I bought soap already…”
>give up, buy more soap
>think of new place to put soap so next time I won’t forget
>find brand new Costco pack of soap
This is a great time for someone (me) who has enough disposable income for the Switch2 (when it inevitably is sold out for retail for 12 months and only obtainable at 2x the price from a reseller) but not enough to buy a house
Lot of discourse about American education standards right now. All I know is that it would be the funniest thing ever if we implemented the gaokao here in the US and I would give anything to make that happen.