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1 week ago | 
whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Louis Cheslaw
Every day, WITI’s group chats buzz with fresh links. As part of our Saturday send for paid readers, we round up 11 of the best. It’s WITI, on the weekend. Why are these interesting? It’s True: The JAWS Shark is Public Domain (Ironic Sans)Due to a fluke of publishing and copyright law. Airline Pilot Analyzes The Air India Crash (Youtube: Captain Steve)“Captain Steve” just released another great watch, answering the Top 20 Questions people have about it.
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1 week ago | 
ft.com | Louis Cheslaw
There’s a time for sporting the most elegant, complicated timepiece you can afford.
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2 weeks ago | 
whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Louis Cheslaw
Every day, WITI’s group chats buzz with fresh links. As part of our Saturday send for paid readers, we round up 11 of the best. It’s WITI, on the weekend. Why are these interesting? When the World Connected on Skype (Rest of World)On the eve of its demise, Rest of World readers remember how Skype changed their world.
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3 weeks ago | 
whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Louis Cheslaw
Every day, WITI’s group chats buzz with fresh links. As part of our Saturday send for paid readers, we round up 11 of the best. It’s WITI, on the weekend. Why are these interesting? The Stunning Decline of the Preference for Having Boys (The Economist)Fifteen years after this Economist cover, a trend reversal to celebrate.
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4 weeks ago | 
magasin.ltd | Louis Cheslaw
Welcome to Magasin Menswear. In a dedicated bimonthly send, Louis Cheslaw surfaces choice products worth your consideration, explores larger conversations shoppers are—or should be—having, and taps a smart dresser to share how he wears it. The Lemaire bag that got multiple nods in last month’s send? Unexpectedly back in stock. Also in stock, at least for now: Body of Work’s collaboration with Mephisto—the first time the Match has been offered in suede rather than leather.
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1 month ago | 
whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Louis Cheslaw
Every day, WITI’s group chats buzz with fresh links. As part of our Saturday send for paid readers, we round up 11 of the best. It’s WITI, on the weekend. Why are these interesting? Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry. It turned into my most extraordinary night as a critic (Longreads)The Chronicle’s MacKenzie Chung Fegan was separated from her table, made to wait in a courtyard for Keller, then ultimately informed by the chef that he would like the critic gone from his restaurant.
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1 month ago | 
whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Louis Cheslaw
Louis here. It’s the final night of my first trip to Japan, and while I could talk about any number of this country’s wonderful, WITI-aligned customs—the services that cart your heavy bags around the city so that you can walk hands-free, say, or the total silence on the subways—there’s a reason I spent my final night returning to a listening bar I’d first visited earlier in the trip.
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1 month ago | 
whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Louis Cheslaw
Every day, WITI’s group chats buzz with fresh links. As part of our Saturday send for paid readers, we round up 11 of the best. It’s WITI, on the weekend. Why are these interesting? How Ukraine lost hundreds of millions on arms deals gone wrong (Financial Times)Desperate to source munitions, Kyiv has paid foreign brokers for weapons and shells that were sometimes unusable or never arrived. Supplements Made Me Lose My Mind (New York)“I was staunchly against psychiatric drugs.
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1 month ago | 
whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Louis Cheslaw
Every day, WITI’s group chats buzz with fresh links. As part of our Saturday send for paid readers, we round up 11 of the best. It’s WITI, on the weekend. Why are these interesting? A (New, Rare) Conversation with Jony Ive (Stripe/YouTube)An hour long chat, and almost universally received as a special one. (Even if some folks are just nostalgic for that Apple advert voice.)How China Is Still Getting Its Hands on Nvidia’s Gear (The Economist)Inside the shadowy business of smuggling AI chips.
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1 month ago | 
whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Louis Cheslaw
Every day, WITI’s group chats buzz with fresh links. As part of our Saturday send for paid readers, we round up 11 of the best. It’s WITI, on the weekend. Why are these interesting? The $400 Häagen-Dazs T-Shirt (Intramural)Intramural lands on Substack with a banger: Demystifying the Henry Rollins-Häagen Dazs Collection. How Conclave Actually Works (Conference of Catholic Bishops)On Wednesday, it begins.
