Quotes of the Week
A parent should do anything, but not everything. – Plutarch
In this life, everything has a beginning and an end. – Rafael Nadal
Music of the Week
Jon Batiste is an “American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, composer, and television personality.” Batiste has won multiple Grammy Awards including Album of the Year. He also has a fantastic documentary film, American Symphony, that’s worth checking out. Für Elise – Batiste is a new release where he crushes the piano.
Article of the Week
“Audio Overview, part of NotebookLM, is powered by Google’s Gemini 1.5 model and allows people to upload content such as links, videos, PDFs, and text. They can then ask the system questions about the content, and it offers short summaries” from People are using Google study software to make AI podcasts—and they’re weird and amazing explores what’s in store for AI with audio. My head is still spinning listening to the podcast episodes created by Audio Overview.
“We’re about craftsmanship. We’re driven by labor. Our goal is to use existing parts and integrate them together, and that dramatically changes our research and development” from Your First Electric Car Could Be a Vintage Ford Bronco has me excited about the market to convert gas-powered vintage cars into electric vehicles.
“If you’re only focused on the negatives you’re only going to have negative outcomes” from How Does a Baseball Team Lose 120 Games? Every Way You Can Think Of walks you through positive thinking in baseball through the lens of the Chicago Whitesox’s historic losing season.
“As a society, we will be back in an expanding world, and we can again focus on playing positive-sum games” from The Intelligence Age is OpenAI’s Sam Altman’s manifesto on the future of AI.
“There is a good chance that the path to happier lives, and yes, better portfolio performance, might start by taking things away” from Take Something Away stresses that a key to happiness is by focusing on less. Seeking less is a concept I have tried to implement in my business and personal life to great success.
Book of the Week
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It by Seneca (Author), C. D. N. Costa (Translator) offers “powerful insights into the art of living, the importance of reason and morality, and provides profound guidance to many through its eloquence, lucidity, and timeless wisdom.” Like Epictetus, I love the simplicity in Seneca’s writing. Every Seneca book I read makes me realize how short life can be if we are not focused on what’s important.
Podcasts of the Week
Renewable energy podcasts have been the focus this week. Some of my favorite podcasts I listened to include HASI Leadership Conversation, Eavor Loop – the underground watchdog, Reimagining the Maritime Industry to cut emissions, Revolutionizing wind power with the world’s largest aircraft, Climate and the Court, Extreme weather and the grid, The Federal Reserve reviews Basel III, Greenbacker Principal on infrastructure and renewables investment, Leo Moreno | Zelestra, John DiMarco | Igneo Infrastructure Partners, Karthik Rao | LineVision, Jens Rasmussen | Eurowind Energy, Hilary Preston | Vinson & Elkins, Gabe Phillips | Catalyst Power, Kris Cheney | Scout Clean Energy, and Joel Gamoran | Arcadia.
Bonus – TV Series of the Week
Nobody Wants This is a Netflix series where “an agnostic sex podcaster (Kristen Bell) and a newly single rabbi (Adam Brody) fall in love; discovering if their relationship survives their wildly different lives and meddling families.” I will be the first to admit this show was not at the top of my list or on my radar. However, my wife Ashlee recommended we watch this show which turned out to be highly entertaining.
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