The All-American flannel shirt hasn't actually been made in America for some 40 years. One man set out to change that. nyti.ms/2RgGvCN

Flannel shirts are no longer made in America. Who knew? For NYT Styles 💖 I profiled American Giant CEO Bayard Winthrop who was determined to make American flannel again. An odyssey thru the U.S. textile industry... nyti.ms/2E3aLye

Can’t wait for State admins to give COVID19 updates? Here is a data project that scrapes data from gov websites - coronavirusapi.com

Main metric I’m looking at as COVID19 scales in each country Cases/1M population. US at 42, ITA at 679. Swiss at 488

GER is an outlier in all of EU. Mortality rate of 0.3% with 22k cases(same as US). Younger pop + 160k tests/wk ft.com/content/c0755b…

SF is a petri dish of socio-economic experimentation and this essay captured the experiments of the last 2 yrs and failures beautifully. As a resident, I’m optimistic. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

If you start an important company, lots and lots of people are going to say it's never going to work. It never stops stinging a little.

Something I learned from both YC Pauls: think about how big a company could be, not why it might fail. Then convince the founders of that.

Meet the MLB player who says, "Adventure is freedom." #WorldSeries espn.go.com/espn/feature/s…

American Giant makes salvaged hoodies sexy with this limited collection. fastcompany.com/3053781/americ… by Dr. Elizabeth Segran via Fast Company

Gonna flag ever tweet-ad I see as irrelevant. #NoAds

Uber's Conscientious Objectors nzzl.us/C8pMWse via Nuzzel thanks Adrianne Jeffries

17 Pictures Of Bill Clinton Playing With Balloons That You Need To See Before You Die - BuzzFeed nzzl.us/EMRJvvD

Congrats! Love NYT Wirecutter Just bought steak knives from a The Sweethome recommendation. Best ecom website ever x.com/blam/status/79…

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YouTube Has Become The Content Engine Of The Internet's Dark Side - BuzzFeed nzzl.us/XRjxFh5

Bayard Winthrop, the CEO of beloved hoodie maker American Giant, talks #MadeinAmerica. ow.ly/uppE30efCwg

Stunningly blunt talk from Deutsche Bank's CEO, who says a "big number" of his staff will lose their jobs to robots qz.com/1070607

Great read on what Made In USA means: its more about the process than the product that signifies a product made to the highest American ideals heddels.com/?p=94264