Three Quick Links for Monday Afternoon

14:57

Mickey Drexler tells the Old Navy origin story. "I did some research and found that 80% of the jeans in America sold for less than $30, and Gap's price point started at $34.50." [whyisthisinteresting.substack.com]

This article has a title that proved irresistible to me: "The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer". [newyorker.com]

A lovely lightweight experiment from Matt Webb: two or more simultaneous readers on the same page will trigger a smiling emoji in the upper right hand corner...and they can share highlighted text snippets too. [interconnected.org]

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