Monocle magazine
Monocle
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Aug 2025 on All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg.
The general take
Jason Calacanis was impressed enough by Monocle to break his decade-long streak of not subscribing to magazines, praising it as an incredibly curated publication focused on design. He highlights that despite the digital-first era, Monocle maintains a print presence with a summer newspaper and bound magazine, which he found compelling enough to actually pay for.
About
A timely handbook helping readers think about how to slow down, reconnect, and live a gentler life. Monocle has always been a champion of taking it slow. Past issues have encouraged readers to dive into a lake and go for a run. To sleep well. To eat food made with love. Even today, in a tense moment in history, the magazine has done its bit to argue for a new modern etiquette where communities are generous with their time, hospitality, and forgiveness. Now its editors and correspondents have brought all of this together into one volume with The Monocle Manifesto for a Gentler Life , a book that urges us all to slow down, reconnect, make good things, and think about the spaces we call home.
Who said what
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…summer reading recommendations featuring design and lifestyle magazine subscription
“I used to be in the magazine business. I haven't subscribed to a magazine in well over a decade, you know. And I just subscribed to monocle.com, which is a bunch of like designers. And they, you know, it's like literally they have a print newspaper they put out. Once over the summer. And then they actually have a bound magazine. But it's an incredible, incredibly curated look at the world of design, hotels, restaurants, art, fashion.”
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