Hello there, reader! This is Vishal with another issue of Kat’s Kable. I’ve moved to a new city, and it’s been tiring to settle down at my new workplace and also settle down in Mumbai itself. But I now have time to write the newsletter, and I gotta say, it makes me feel good to get back to this nice and familiar routine. So here we are, and that’s all I’ve got for now.

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1. The Race to Produce Green Steel (Undark Magazine) - interesting! Generally, the most carbon-intensive step of making steel is when iron ore is combusted together with coke. The coke can be replaced with hydrogen, and this is what some people are doing to reduce the carbon emissions of steel.

2. The Secret Sisterhood of Offshore Oil Workers, (Narratively) - Really lovely essay about women working in offshore oil projects off the coast of Mexico. Very touching.

3. Relish (Fifty Two) - another enjoyable Fifty Two piece, this time about tomato ketchup in India and how the Indian market is very different from other ones.

4. The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond Heist (Wired) - This is from 2009 but it’s SO GOOD. Super fun to read especially if you like to read about heists. I found a whole trove of heist stories [from a great Reddit comment](https:

//www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/wgwgez/comment/ij20kit/) and plan to read each and every one of them.

5. Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda (The Guardian) - Also fascinating. Stowaways on ships are a real pain, because a lot of docks won’t let the ship come in if they have stowaways (because the local country will have to provide asylum to the stowaways). Phew. I can’t imagine being a stowaway on a massive ship though.. scary.

6. The M.M.A. Doctor’s Dilemma: To Stop or Not to Stop the Fight (The New York Times) - One thing talked about in this article is the effect ringside physicians have on MMA fights. By being there, do they create an artificial sense of safety in an inherently unsafe sport?

7. Tennis AI (The Racquet) - I only just read this essay from late 2021 about the playing styles of Federer, Nadal and Djokovic and how their playing philosophies and patterns can be seen through a lens of game theory. Interesting if you’re a tennis fan.

8. Out in the Great Alone (Grantland) - Wow. This is from 2013 and by Brian Philips and came recommended to me as one of the best longform pieces ever and I have to agree with that! It’s about following the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska, an annual event which is crazy and amazing and wonderful. This is a long read, so I recommend setting aside a chunk of time for it. Too good.

9. Wilderness women (SB Nation) - Really fun piece about an Alaska competition (just like the previous one) where women pit themselves against each other to ironically prove that they’d be worthy wives for Alaskan bachelors. The whole thing is quite tongue-in-cheek and done to raise money to help abuse survivors.

10. Trying to Escape the Trap of Digital Productivity (Catapult) - I liked this a lot, because Richa Kaul Padte talks about sharing, oversharing, the nature of sharing etc. on social media.

As I write this, it feels like I’m composing a caption, a supplementary confession to a picture I’m about to post. I have to remind myself that the very point of this paragraph is to describe a life unseen and unobserved, belonging only to those who nestled together in the wings. It was no one else’s business what we did during intermission.