The Saturday Selection, Vol. 97
Featuring Nakashima furniture, the Neo, and how book covers happen.
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?
Why My Simple Book Cover Wasn’t Simple (James Pogue)
“The reviews of Apple: The First 50 Years have all been great. But a couple of people on social media have posted about how much they hate the cover.”
The Brand Age (Paul Graham)
“How are things different now from the way they were in the golden age? The best way to answer that might be to imagine what someone from the golden age would notice if we brought him here in a time machine.” Fun read from a significant mind.
Workers Who Love ‘Synergizing Paradigms’ Might be Bad at Their Jobs (Cornell)
According to a new Cornell study about impressive-but-empty organizational rhetoric.
