Quote of the Week
Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. — Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Music of the Week
Barry Can’t Swim was mentioned recently in one of the newsletters I subscribe to. While working this past week, his album When Will We Land? has been nice to have on in the background. Barry Can’t Swim (Joshua Mainnie) is a Scottish electronic music producer and DJ from Edinburgh producing solid tunes.
Article of the Week
ESPN’s Wright Thompson is one of my favorite sportswriters. His articles are pure magic. Reporting From … Tiger Stadium is an old but oh-so-fantastic Thomson article capturing the magic that happens in LSU’s Tiger Stadium. In the article, Thompson lists his reasons why Tiger Stadium is the best place in the world to watch a sporting event. Here are the ones from this list ringing true for me:
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The Tiger Bait Walk – Finally, the busses pull up and cops rush Saban into the bowels of Tiger Stadium. LSU fans yell, “Tiger Bait.” Alabama fans yell, “Roll Tide.”
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The Pre-Game Ritual – Then Dan Borne’ comes on and goes through the temperature and weather. “Chance of rain?” he asks the crowd. “Never!” they respond in unison.
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Nighttime – The third quarter ends with LSU down seven, but hanging in. Borne makes an announcement.
“The sun has found its home in the western sky, and it is now Saturday night in Death Valley,” he says.
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The Noise – “All I began to hear was a chant: L-S-U. L-S-U,” Richt said. “It got louder and louder and louder, and it was the loudest I’d ever heard in a stadium.”
Book of the Week
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson is incredible! Demon of Unrest gets to the core of the months between Abraham Lincoln’s November 1860 election and the “Confederacy’s shelling of Sumter,” a federal fort in Charleston. Demon of Unrest tells this story through the lens primarily of four characters – “Major Robert Anderson, Sumter’s commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them; and Abraham Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous secretary of state, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitable—one that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans.” Pair this book with podcast episodes I enjoyed including Demon of Unrest: Why the Civil War Matters Today (with Erik Larson), “The Demon of Unrest” by Erik Larson, and Erik Larson “The Demon of Unrest”
Podcast of the Week
Business Breakdowns, a new-to-me podcast, helps you to “learn how companies work from the people who know them best.” The podcast is off-the-charts informative. A few recent episodes I enjoyed include Carbon Removal: A Primer, Carbon Reduction: Changing Business Practices, The Walt Disney Company: An Entertainment Empire, Restoration Hardware: Climbing the Luxury Mountain, Toast: The Restaurant Operating System, Lululemon Athletica: The Athleisure Leader, The Business of Football, FedEx: Anytime, Anywhere, The Coca-Cola Company, Vistra Corp: Full Stack Energy Provider, Charter Communications: Cable Cash Flows, Ferrari: Magic from Maranello, Rolex: Timeless Excellence, Patek Philippe: Watch Perfection, Vulcan Materials: Rock On, FTX: Inside the Restructuring, The Evolution of Private Credit, CHIPS Act: Securing Semiconductor Supply, Rolls-Royce: Turbines and Tribulations, and Siemens Energy: Winds of Change.
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