WITI Team | July 12, 2025
The Saturday Selection, Vol. 62
Staying calm after a 100mph knock, new passport wins, against celebrating dupes, and much more.
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?
Nobody Has a Personality Anymore (GIRLS)
We are products with labels, forgetting how to talk even about ourselves and our friends.
Why The Lululemon vs. Costco Copycat Fight is Different (AFR)
It involves two large publicly listed companies. 2. It takes direct aim at the growing cultural phenomenon of celebrating cheap knock-offs on social media.
A Baseball Masterclass in Emotional Regulation (Instagram)
After being deliberately struck by a 100mph fastball, Shohei Ohtani fought all of these biological instincts to somehow stay composed.
Air Conditioning Is a Completely Necessary Climate Villain (Vox)
Lee Kuan Yew, the iron-willed founder of modern Singapore, was once asked what the most important invention of the 20th century was. His answer, crediting it with turning his country’s economic fortunes around? “Air conditioning.”
America Has Pulled Off the Impossible. It Made Getting a Passport Simple. (WSJ)
Washington isn’t known for tech innovation. How did a team of bureaucrats put their stamp on a process that hadn’t changed in 50 years?