The Fourth Course — Five things worth saying tonight

Every morning, five items on your phone. A word that's everywhere. A number that tells a story. The thing everyone's talking about. Something you missed. Something worth quoting.

You're good at what you do. This makes you good at everything else.

From today's edition

Chinamaxxing. Started as an ironic TikTok bit about Western kids adopting Chinese daily habits: hot water, slippers, congee. Then CNN ran a segment framing it as a soft power story. The suffix -maxxing migrated from incel forums to fitness culture to geopolitics in about 18 months. That's a word doing a lot of travel.

16. The number of Oscar nominations for Sinners, the most in Academy history. More than Titanic. More than La La Land. A Black vampire film from the director of Black Panther just became the most nominated movie ever made.

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