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6 days 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.

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? 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.

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

This originally appeared behind our paywall. But opening it up to all today. 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, AramcoWorld began as a newsletter for American employees of Aramco.

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? Son of CIA deputy director killed while fighting for Russia (The Guardian)Michael Alexander Gloss, who died on 4 April 2024, was the son of top-ranking US spy Juliane Gallina. Can You Judge a Wine Bottle by its Label? (The Pudding)If the label has an animal on it, the answer seems to be yes.

3 weeks 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.