Colin Nagy

2 days ago | whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Colin Nagy

Colin here. We wrote about the Shultz Hour a while back. In essence, it is 60 minutes every week where you can focus and think about your most important tasks, and not be disturbed by anyone—especially your phone. If we're being honest, this is rare. There isn't a lot of slack to the systems in today's workplaces (particularly with things like Slack), and the mind often needs a bit of time to settle in order to do deep thinking.

2 weeks ago | whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Colin Nagy

Colin here. We throw a lot of words at you every week. So wanted to share an album I consistently revisit, Utility by Barker, released in 2019 on Osgut Ton. Start with the track Paradise Engineering. Pitchfork’s review, written by the great Philip Sherburne: The music resembles techno in all the style’s outward characteristics: the pulsing chords, the r…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Why is this interesting?

4 weeks ago | whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Colin Nagy

Colin here. I first heard about AramcoWorld at a great dinner party on the Upper East Side in New York, the kind where the conversation went everywhere. An attendee mentioned a very good magazine put out by the Saudi oil company. I looked it up the next morning and subscribed. It was so delightfully unexpected I had to check it out. Founded in 1949, Aram…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Why is this interesting?

1 month ago | whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Colin Nagy

Colin here. Adolf Tolkachev pulled off the intelligence coup of the Cold War from inside the heart of Soviet military research. An engineer with access to the USSR's most sensitive radar technology, Tolkachev volunteered to spy for the CIA in 1978.

1 month ago | whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Colin Nagy

Colin here. I can’t get enough of the clip where John Tesh dramatically plays the answering machine recording he left for himself—a spontaneous melody that would eventually be etched into every American’s brain:The TLDR: Tesh was traveling to cover the Tour de France in 1989 when he woke up suddenly in Megève, France, with an idea. Knowing how easily it could vanish, he called his own answering machine back home in the States to capture it, humming energetically into the phone.