The Executive Edition (2/20/22)

Colin here. Happy Sunday.

A few things that caught my eye this week:

Maggie x Tavi

Loved this entire 2019 Maggie Rogers interview with Tavi. Her riff @ 38 mins on outputs, pace, and stress on releasing rather than reverence for the process. It’s a nice point on craft, and the idea of “giving fans something when it is finished” and how she “wants things that take time.”

The Red Line

I’m a huge fan of the investigative report Joby Warwick. His book the Triple Agent was a masterful piece of reporting on the entire backstory of the Khost bombings in 2009. More on that backstory here. I’m going deep on Syria, and his book the Red Line details a lot of stuff I didn’t know about the use of chemical weapons on civilian populations by the Assad regime in Syria, and also the US race to find and destroy the weapons as they feared them falling into the hands of ISIS. Worth a read to go deep on an area of history that a lot of people missed.

Elsewhere:

• Following our Cambodia WITI, The Economist on Russia’s approach to building a firewall of their own.

• NYT with a deep dive on Carhartt. Worth a read.

• This backstory on the Enter the Void opening sequence is amazing.

• Inside Peloton’s epic run of bungled calls and bad luck

• Seoul photographer Cho Gi Seok captures a new age of Korean cool

• Massive Credit Suisse leaks

See you on Monday for our MMD.

Colin and Noah