Red Velvet repack coming soon. This image of Yeri is amazing.

» Melania Trump goes after the haters in a way that Sarah Palin never did on that scale. Respect.

» Speaking of the Trumps, Barron is getting really tall!

» Bullshit jobs and managerial feudalism (or as I like to call it, “petty turtle battles”)

» Favorite performances in k-pop (feat. Taemin and TOP)

» The truth about Cheryl Sandberg and “lean in”

“Lean In” is not fundamentally a feminist manifesto. It is a road map for operating within the existing system, perhaps changing it at the margins to make it easier for other women to, well, operate within the system. Sandberg does not spend much time asking whether the system is so screwed up that pushing against it might be the better route toward meaningful change.

» Always learn more biology

» “We are not servants of an economic system. We are human beings.”

 

» The infrastructure behind the influencer beauty industry (Seed, the company behind Colourpop and Kylie Cosmetics, is one to watch):

Landver believes that the next big lifestyle brand—the next Tory Burch or Martha Stewart, say — will be founded by an influencer. Or several, actually. “As opposed to looking at one big hundred million-dollar brand, we’re looking at building many ten million dollar brands,” says Landver. “I say longtail five times a day. The future is going to be many more small brands focused on smaller segments.”

» Further proof that SM Entertainment’s audio engineers are the real MVPs