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The Workday Lunch Edition

3 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.
The Barker Edition

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?
The AI Content Optimism Edition

2 weeks ago | whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Noah Brier

Noah here. Since ChatGPT launched, I’ve been hearing the same fear expressed over and over, particularly in marketing circles: AI will drown us in low-quality content. The argument goes that AI makes content creation so cheap and easy that we’ll be flooded with mediocre, AI-generated “slop” that pollutes the internet. This creates a vicious cycle where models trained on slop produce even worse content. Why is this interesting? I think this logic misses something fundamental.
The Monday Media Diet with Lily Sullivan

2 weeks ago | whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Lily Sullivan

Lily Sullivan is a strategist and publisher. Happy to have her with us on this later afternoon LA send. Tell us about yourself. My name is Lily Sullivan and I’m a writer based in Brooklyn. I have a newsletter called Love and Other Rugs, which compares dating men in New York to furnishing an apartment. Once a year, L&OR has a print issue—50+ pages that are sold online and at stores across the country.
The Saturday Selection, Vol. 48

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?
The Monday Media Diet with Jeff Gordinier

3 weeks ago | whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Jeff Gordinier

Jeff Gordinier (JG) is an editor and food writer that I’ve followed for a long time. I loved his book, Hungry, about his time traveling with chef René Redzepi. Have a great week. -Colin (CJN)Photo: Andre BaranowskiTell us about yourself. I am a father. I have four children: Margot, who graduated from Vassar College last year and now lives in France; Tobias, who is finishing his first year at CU Boulder in Colorado; and twins Jasper and Wesley, who are in first grade here in Los Angeles.
The Saturday Selection, Vol. 47

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? Your Old DVDs are Rotting (New York Post)They “curdle like milk” (sorry)—and Warner Bros. will replace them. The Art of Perfect Vibes (Businessweek)How NYC’s hottest restaurants got that way. The Japanese Military Has a People Problem (Foreign Affairs)When depopulation becomes a national security risk.
Unlocked: The Conceptual Winnie the Pooh Edition

3 weeks ago | whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Louis Cheslaw

This previously went out to our paid subscribers. Many good things happen behind the paywall, should you feel like upgrading your subscription. For now, enjoy this free!Louis here. This weekend’s New York Times ‘Modern Love’ column was a moving tale of a husband who, after taking the Enneagram personality test, began to lash out at his family. The test, which assigns numbers to different personality types, had revealed that the man was a Nine – “The Peacemaker.” He couldn’t handle it.
Resend: The Vibe Coding Edition

4 weeks ago | whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Noah Brier

This originally went out under paywall, but open to all today. Noah here. Last week, a client asked me if I’d join a meeting they were having and spend 10 or 15 minutes talking about “vibe coding.”For the uninitiated, most people were introduced to the term by Andrej Karpathy, a legend in the world of A, and the first person who really got me excited about AI 15 years ago.
The Vibe Coding Edition

4 weeks ago | whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Noah Brier

Noah here. Last week, a client asked me if I’d join a meeting they were having and spend 10 or 15 minutes talking about “vibe coding.” For the uninitiated, most people were introduced to the term by Andrej Karpathy, a legend in the world of A, and the first person who really got me excited about AI 15 years ago. On February 2nd, he tweeted:There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.