On the one hand, the Rolex Day-Date on a President bracelet is something not for everyone due to the gold and the exposure you generate with it, which is not always either positive or welcome. On the other hand, it… Read More ›
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Facebook and Twitter spread Trump’s lies
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook says he’ll run political ads even if they are false. Jack Dorsey of Twitter says he’ll stop running political ads altogether. Dorsey has the correct approach but the debate skirts the bigger question: Who is responsible… Read More ›
Fullmosa 5 Colors Quick Release Watch Strap Thoughts
I purchased the Khaki version of this strap because I wanted to put it on my Khaki King so there was very basic logic at play. For just £11.99 I wasn’t expecting much, but I have been more than impressed… Read More ›
AirPods Are a Tragedy
They’re plastic, made of some combination of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, chlorine, and sulfur. They’re tungsten, tin, tantalum, lithium, and cobalt…. …For roughly 18 months, AirPods play music, or podcasts, or make phone calls. Then the lithium-ion batteries will stop… Read More ›
10 Watches That Changed What’s on Your Wrist
What does “contemporary design” mean in an industry that perennially looks backward? It’s a serious question for watchmakers, most of whom are traditionalists at heart. (Compare the dominant aesthetic in modern wristwatches with pocket watches created 500 years ago; other… Read More ›
The real David Attenborough
As a young producer, it was drilled into Attenborough that private convictions must not be aired in public. He has always upheld the values of the liberal establishment – avowedly internationalist and anti-populist in his veneration of expertise – and… Read More ›
The Women Who Helped Shape Disney Animation
Bianca Majolie was the first woman hired into the studio’s all-male story department in 1935. Her tenure would be marked with both triumph and prejudice. Majolie translated Le Avventure di Pinocchio from its original Italian, and then considered how to… Read More ›
Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan
Today, Bezos controls nearly 40 percent of all e-commerce in the United States. More product searches are conducted on Amazon than on Google, which has allowed Bezos to build an advertising business as valuable as the entirety of IBM. One… Read More ›
Why I Will Never Want a Smartwatch
Basically, a smartwatch, even a great one (which does not exist) is like NFC—the “futuristic” technology that lets you pay for things by tapping your phone against something instead of swiping your credit card, and which has never really caught… Read More ›
Why Everything Is Getting Louder
In the evenings, after work, Thallikar liked to decompress by taking long walks around Brittany Heights, following Musket Way to Carriage Lane to Marlin Drive almost as far as the San Palacio and Clemente Ranch housing developments. It was during… Read More ›
