Friday Finds, VI
Confessions of a Presidential Candidate (The New Yorker)
The Democrats running for President in 2020 have walked in different shoes, from ballet slippers to football cleats. They carry different banners. They are fighting different fights. But most of their books contain one version or another of an eerily similar scene, from a single night.
This was pretty fun to read because it distills each Democratic candidate's books into short TL;DRs.
South Korean Women 'Escape The Corset' And Reject Their Country's Beauty Ideals (NPR)
Traditionally, she says, Korean women are taught that beauty is their biggest asset. By getting married, they can exchange that asset for social and economic status. Even today, such views affect women's options and choices related to careers, marriage and motherhood. Rejecting beauty standards leads some women to rebel against an entire social structure, she says, and that means boycotting romance, marriage, sex and childbirth.
In Constance Wu, Asian Americans Finally Have a Diva to Call Our Own (Slate)
For Wu to air all of this for mass consumption was unwise, if not disrespectful, for a couple of reasons...
Can someone tell me how I should think about this “scandal”?
Google Tries Again With Pixel 3a (Tech.pinions)
I continued to be somewhat perplexed by Google’s hardware ambitions. Many have suggested that the company continues to play in the hardware market to drive best-of-breed devices, to experiment with the intersection of hardware and software, and to keep its OEM partners on their toes. However, in 2019, with the broader smartphone market slowing or declining in many regions, this seems like folly.
This writer continues to be perplexed. I continue to be unimpressed.