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[Reflection] #21: What Can the 0.1% Teach Us?
Finally, the time has come! Smart, rich, successful influencers, graduates of elite schools, after a top career, with plenty of dollars in their bank accounts… are starting to spend their free time on social media to give back. I follow the following Instagrammers: The problem with influencers who rely solely on partnerships is that they constantly censor themselves, for fear of losing a sponsor or offending their audience. They are forced to follow trends and end up all saying the same thing, respecting political correctness. So if you must follow someone, prefer those who have other sources of income, who aren’t afraid to lose followers. Those who repeat ten times…
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How to Order on Taobao with CSSBuy (to France, Europe): My Review and Experience 2025
Today, I’m going to show you how to buy on Taobao using a Taobao agent, a middleman who receives Taobao packages and reships them to you anywhere in the world (France, Europe, etc.). The service I use is called CSSBuy, and you can use my affiliate link to sign up, which might get you some coupons. Why Taobao? Cssbuy CSSBuy is a Taobao agent, meaning they’ll receive Taobao packages for you in China and then send them anywhere in the world, to your home in France or elsewhere. If you have multiple packages, they can consolidate them into one. Packages are stored free of charge in their Chinese warehouse for…
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How to order from Japanese sites and get delivery to the UK with Shipito?
If, like me, you drool over ingenious Japanese products, beautiful Japanese books, or cosmetics websites, telling yourself “one day, I’ll go to Japan,” know that you can get them without going to Japan. There are solutions! Why buy Japanese products? How to get delivery to the UK? You can simply use a package forwarding service like Shipito. These services give you a postal address in Japan, and they take care of forwarding your parcels to the UK. The good news is that they can even consolidate multiple parcels!! that way you’ll receive them all at once, and they’ll remove unnecessary packaging that serves no purpose. So you pay: Unfortunately, the…
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My Current Favorites – [July 2025] – Japanese Stationery, Beads, Lipstick effect
Last month, I told you I brought back a lot of Vietnamese books. They are books about the Yi King, a very challenging subject, so I had to take out all the stationery I bought in Japan to highlight and annotate my books. In Japan, they are so passionate about stationery that there is a lot of innovation and even a stationery fair that takes place in several major cities in Japan in June/July. They regularly make rankings. In Japan, they love rankings and have rankings for everything. For cosmetics, for example, there is the cosmeranking, which is very famous; that allowed me to buy without thinking, given the immense…
