The Sunday Digest 029
It's a good week to have a good week.
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Sunday Read: Why Steve Jobs Chose This Designer’s Turtlenecks
by Vanessa Friedman for The New York Times
I never truly discovered why but I went through a “uniform” phase during in 2020. It was probably because I wasn’t leaving our apartment much for a large chunk of the year, but I enjoyed the simplicity of not having to think about what to wear — my black long sleeve t-shirt and Lululemon 29” joggers were just fine.
Through doing research on uniforms for the podcast, I discovered designer Issey Miyake’s work for Steve Jobs — and this recent piece from The New York Times spotlights just that in the wake of his death last week. Here’s an excerpt:
Mr. Miyake made him “like a hundred of them,” Mr. Jobs, who wore them until his death in 2011, said in the book. (Mr. Isaacson wrote he saw them stacked in Mr. Jobs’s closet, and the book’s cover features a portrait of Mr. Jobs wearing, natch, a black mock turtleneck.)
Even more than his Levi’s 501s and New Balance shoes, the turtleneck became synonymous with Mr. Jobs’s particular blend of genius and his focus: the way he settled on a uniform to reduce the number of decisions he had to make in the mornings, the better to focus on his work. It was an approach to dress later adopted by adherents including Mark Zuckerberg and Barack Obama. Also his ability to blend soft-corner elegance and utility in not just his own style but the style of his products.
Read it in full here.
The Sunday Haiku: A Moment of Panic
Walking for coffee—
Did we blow out the candle?
Uh, I’m sure it’s fine.
New Episode › Getting Dinner Reservations, Being In A Funk, and The 'Check Your Bank Account' Meditation
The anxiety of trying to lock down a dinner reservation on short notice, the thought process and feelings behind being in a funk, and a meditation for anyone avoiding their bank account balance after a blurry weekend.
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Relaxing Watch: Make Perfect Croissants With Claire Saffitz
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