*Loving Vincent* from 2017 left me speechless. Every frame is an impressionist oil painting. Literally a moving painting. An absolute delight.

Another model of positive masculinity

“Pillars of white jade; steps of green jade;

Beds of coral; blinds of crystal;

Colored glass carved and set in kingfisher green lintels;

Amber decorated and set in rainbow-colored ridgepoles.
 
Its extraordinary beauty and profound serenity cannot be fully described.”

And the footnotes are all gold 💎✨! Here’s what this person’s name means, here’s a close homophone. Here’s the pass rate of Tang imperial exams. This area is associated with a genre about exiled courtiers. Here’s how Tang road networks work. Sun Tzu said “when birds fly up, someone lies in wait”.
🤩🤯

(Not sure how accurate this three year old thread is www.reddit.com/r/japan/comm... but they’re saying the majority of Japanese college students‘ tuition is paid for by parents; and top colleges are public and cheap but less selective ones are private and pricey?)

Just read your Atlantic piece on this, wow 🤩🤯! Thank you for writing it!!!

Ah, a note. Thunderbolt Fantasy mostly plays straight the trope where women are either ❶ demons or ❷ "good wife, wise mother"

Even though we have amazing literal demonesses, badass warriors, and questing maidens, they mostly fall into the “in the end, evil” or “in the end, a caregiver” category

And, my friends and I are enjoying internalizing that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with Clorox companies. Good respectable work happens there.

This is more about understanding what gets rewarded in the market and alas also what doesn’t. Who gets valued as growth and who gets valued as Clorox.

My favorite book here is from 2001 lol: as a history book, five stars. You need to read about canals & railroads. Chemicals & petroleum. These industries were the (sigh) AI of their day, hype and all.

Finance became Clorox soon after 2008. Much of “tech” today is already Clorox, not yet repriced.