WITI Team | November 8, 2025
The Saturday Selection, Vol. 78
Squeaky 'On' shoes, cool divorce lawyers, the Coppola watch collection, 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?
“This is a house of illusion… Even the cracks in the walls are painted on.” (Vanity Fair)
(Great, from 2008) Mexican silver-mining heir Charlie de Beistegui was perhaps the greatest party giver this century has known, and his 1951 ball made social history. Dominick Dunne visited barons, countesses, and princesses, for “a portrait of the master of illusion who created a world of utter splendor.”
Customers sue over ‘embarrassing’ squeaky On Cloud shoes (BBC)
If your On sneakers are embarrassing you all day, you’re not alone.
Enjoy CarPlay While You Still Can (The Atlantic)
The auto industry is at war with Apple.
Ed Caesar on Nick Paumgarten’s “Up and Then Down” (The New Yorker)
TNY asked one of its greatest current writers to look back on one of its greatest ever features—a celebration of elevators and the culture they created.
The Divine Discontent (Personal Canon)
“The most fulfilled people I know tend to have two traits. They’re insatiably curious—about new ideas, experiences, information and people. And they seem to exist in a state of perpetual, self-inflicted unhappiness.”