No. 287 June 27, 2025 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five: insights, inspiration, and a few personal favorites to kick off your weekend. Music of the Week This week, I revisited Sevendust—an Atlanta-based rock band known for blending heavy metal with a lot of soul in the vocals. Since forming in the mid-90s, they’ve released […]
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Dwight Eisenhower—President of the United States, Supreme Allied Commander during World War II, and a five-star General—is credited with a quote that sparked the creation of one of the most practical productivity tools ever developed, the Eisenhower Matrix: I have two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and
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No. 286 June 20, 2025 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five: insights, inspiration, and a few personal favorites to kick off your weekend. Music of the Week This week, I revisited the music and legacy of Jimmy Buffett—the laid-back king of “island escapism.” Known for hits like Margaritaville, Come Monday, and Cheeseburger in Paradise, Buffett
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The ancient Stoics wrote often about character. Ryan Holiday carries that torch in Right Thing, Right Now, arguing that character—not talent, wealth, or luck—is what truly defines a person. The Wizard of Menlo Park shows the same by Thomas Edison’s character. Character is internal. It’s who you are when no one’s watching. Edison’s story isn’t
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No. 285 June 13, 2025 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five: insights, inspiration, and a few personal favorites to kick off your weekend. Music of the Week Terius Gray—better known as Juvenile—got his start in New Orleans and began rapping at just 11 years old. A few favorites from his catalog: 400 Degreez, Bling Bling,
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May had five Fridays, which gave me extra time to finish an additional book. Here’s my May reading list—a well-rounded mix of philosophy, business, fiction, personal growth, and golf instruction: For everything I’ve read this year—including these five—check out my full reading lists [HERE]. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the
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In 2004, Jeff Bezos wrote something in Amazon’s shareholder letter that offers a free cash flow lesson that could’ve saved Thomas Edison decades of financial strain: “Our ultimate financial measure, and the one we most want to drive over the long term, is free cash flow per share.” At first glance, it’s a dry, nearly
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No. 284 June 7, 2025 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five: insights, inspiration, and a few personal favorites to kick off your weekend. Music of the Week Lake Street Dive was formed in the mid-2000s in Boston. Founding band members include Rachael Price, Mike Olson, Bridget Kearney, and Mike Calabrese. Keyboardist Akie Bermiss joined the
Welcome to this week’s Friday Five: insights, inspiration, and a few personal favorites to kick off your weekend. Music of the Week 311 (Omaha’s finest) — Omaha is more than just Berkshire Hathaway HQ. It’s also home to 311, the band behind tracks like Amber, Beautiful Disaster, and Love Song. Formed in the ’80s, their
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Ryan Holiday’s Ego Is the Enemy argues that our greatest obstacles are often internal, rooted in selfishness, pride, and self-importance. The Wizard of Menlo Park offers a vivid, real-world example of this principle through the story of Thomas Edison’s ego. Thomas Edison’s ego shaped both his triumphs and his troubles. He struggled to acknowledge competitors,
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